Elephant in the room how could you not notice?! Mick Jenkins – Free Nation Rebel Soldier pt. 2
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He’s saying he could never do it too big. Elephant in the room is an idiom meaning obvious truth that’s mostly ignored.
Mick is comparing himself to the Elephant in the room because
He can never do it too big, He’s questioning how people don’t notice him.
Wouldn’t you notice this.
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Complex is a magazine and Mick is saying it makes no sense to have simple artists or movements on the cover of the magazine thats title means intricate.
For example:
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Clever word play here Mick is saying he’s not paying attention to any of the squares(Lames) because he’s better then them(Top notch)
Reference to hopscotch:
He’s stepping over the squares like the game of hopscotch where the whole point of the game is to jump on squares drawn on the ground!
Reffering to the last line:
I’m putting an end to these dudes forcing kids to fuck with em! Like Chris Hansen on “To catch a predator”
Kids forced to fuck with you, came with childish antics Ryan Oddity (Ft. DoMo BaNKZ, Eric Prime, Esch & Rated-R Playboy) – The Racine Cypher
Wack rappers get famous cause a group of fan claims they’re the sweetest! so all the other kids start hopping on the bandwagon cause they are too childish to realize they are getting lured on.
Kinda like this:
I’m not big yet cause im waiting to see what my competition has so i know what to serve at em!
Comparing it to this:
