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Kids can’t go to sleep on Xmas. They just want to open gifts.
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This song is from “Afro Samurai”.
It’s soundtrack of T.V. series Afro Samurai. Album was produced by RZA of The Wu Tang Clan, and features big names such as Big Daddy Kane, Talib Kweli, Q-Tip, and GZA. There is a historic collaboration between Big Daddy Kane & GZA – Cameo Afro
The song explains why RZA can’t go to sleep
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This song is from Method Man second album Tical 2000: Judgment Day.
It debuted at number two on Billboard 200 chart, and number one on Top R&B/Hip Hop Albums chart, while selling 411,000 copies in its first week. On December 16, 1998, Tical 2000: Judgement Day was certified platinum in sales by RIAA. Upon its release, the album received mostly favorable reviews from music critics, though several disapproved of its over-abundance of skits.
This song explains what tortures his mind and how he fights against demons.
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This song is from his first album “Rhyme Pays” released in 1987.
It’s considered to have defined gangsta genre, and was first hip-hop album to carry a Parental Advisory warning label, although it was years before “explicit lyrics” sticker was developed.
Rhyme Pays peaked at #93 on Billboard 200 music chart and #26 on Top R&B/Hip Hop Albums. Rolling Stone gave album three stars. It was also first hip-hop album released on Sire and Warner Bros.
This song explains pimpin and what Ice-T does with his money.
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Crack is made with a mixture of cocaine and baking soda. Coca Cola is a soda sometimes known as coke, and coke is also another nickname for cocaine. Transitively: soda=coke=cocaine.
Moreover sling is a verb meaning “to shoot,” as in a a “slingshot” that shoots rocks.
They sling crack as a cobra spits/slings acid.
He is also using sibilance in this line with most of it containing words that start with ’S', alluding to how snakes speak