So when I'm ridin round, know i feel a creeper creepin
And I'm never sleepin cuz of what Nas taught me M.A.B. – The Unheard
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This is a great example of how Wais P keeps it street. The people who help promote his music the most are those at the heart of the culture: the average joe hustling to make it and the the man who rocks the party and breaks new records.
CEO and A&R are just industry names for suit-and-tie wearers who are too far from the culture to understand his music and help him.
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Of the Opus Mr. Holland ain't got nothing on Rapsody (Ft. Wale) – Dark Knights
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Wale gets (“pulls”) girls in the same way cello strings are pulled/plucked. Since cellos are often played in symphonies, this segues into a pun here involving Mr. Holland, the skilled musician and composer in the movie Mr. Holland’s Opus.
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Fat Belly Bella is the nickname and Twitter name of Erykah Badu. Wale’s cash is as thick as Erykah (especially more recently).
Erykah at the 2013 BET Awards:
You niggas lack season like a torn ACL-a Rapsody (Ft. Wale) – Dark Knights
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A torn ACL causes an athlete to miss out on playing during the season (ask Rajon Rondo, Derrick Rose and even the great Mariano Rivera who all missed last season due to a torn ACL). Other rappers “lack season” in the rap game because they’re inexperienced.
Also note wordplay of “spit pepper,” which relates to “lack season.”
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Catwoman is known for stealing jewelry. In the same fashion, Rapsody is letting her listeners take jewels (knowledge) from her music.
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Rapsody bears the underground status as an emcee, and she’s like a killer with her pen game. In The Dark Knight Rises, Bane and his army lived underneath Gotham City in its sewers before attacking the city.
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Note that many of the references in this verse are to the movie The Dark Knight Rises. Rap also mentions the movie a number of times on Murs' “Get Together.”
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