Under me where you belong Kembe X – I Prey
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These lines are where we see the first glimpses of Kembe’s change in attitude toward the girl. After he easily picks her up, he quickly takes her to bed and really demeans her with the line “under me where you belong” and the fact that they first made love on his admittedly “cheap pillow mattress”
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Kembe opens up his relationship with this girl with some simple game – he gains her sympathy, and opens himself up to her
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Bitch, ya cuts is weak sauce
The stakes is so high Kembe X – Intro (Back in the Day)
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Peep the wordplay on salt, sauce, cuts, and steak here
Kembe first condemns “hypocrisy” and states that it often harms people on a deep level – but then he dismisses it as just “weak sauce” and returns to his own situation and how crucial this point in his career is
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Kembe was born in 1994 – 20 years before this song dropped. This line is also an obvious reference to the classic Souls of Mischief track “93 ‘Til Infinity”
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‘Cuz everybody lying, that was everybody line
So you decide you’d rather be a mute
So they treat you like a mutant
Even though your two cents
Worth more than that Benjamin that niggas swear they keeping
If they put it on they kids, the funeral in a week, uh Kembe X – Self Appreciation
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The world is full of lies – so much so that it seems like nearly everything you hear could be a lie. This forces many into silence, who as a result get ostracized. However, just because someone is quiet doesn’t mean they have nothing to say – most of the time, in fact, when they do say something, it’s definitely worth listening to (more so than people who are always talking)
Kembe communicates these ideas cleverly, punning on “mute” & “mutant, and “two cents” & "Benjamins”
The final line here is particularly effective: if these habitual liars try to prove they’re telling the truth by saying, “I put it on my kids!”, and that phrase actually carried weight, then their kids would probably actually end up dying, as they’re more than likely lying
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Kembe encourages the quiet people, like the one this verse has described, here. He says they’ll probably find a better place soon, but even if not, the Bible promises them that the world is theirs. So they should take the initiative and claim what is theirs, because nothing is handed to anyone on Earth
Zion also a MS HILL track off of miseducation Lauren hill