You hit the Grammy's
You get the Benz? Oh it's your Granny's?
It gets you friends?
It killed your family?
Oh it depends? Depends on what lil nigga Kembe X – Soundtrack II Armageddon
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Burdened with the curse of a million dollar dream you had deemed to be precious Kembe X – Soundtrack II Armageddon
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The answer to the question Robert Frost
- along with many others – famously posed:
how will the world end?
Apparently, through a flood,
as what happened to Noah.
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A reference to legendary wrestler Joe Laurinaitis (or the Road Warrior Animal), who was part of the iconic WWF group Legion of Doom
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Wale
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In the previous line Wale refers to oldschool wrestler Joe Laurinaitis, who is also the father of St. Louis Rams Linebacker James Laurinaitis. In his transition to the next line Wale subtly mentions father and son.
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An allusion to 2Pac’s hit (posthumous) song “Ghetto Gospel”.
skidro4991: the rhyming in the middle of words is called assonance, makes a sentence sound very smooth
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ASAP Rocky is telling that he has seen the “ghetto gospel” because he saw his brother being shot and killed in Harlem in front of him when he was 13
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Notice how ‘God spoke’ sounds similar to ‘gospel’ in the song..ASAP seems to be bending a lot of the words in this song to either rhyme or simply just sound alike. Interesting technique that I have heard other rappers do, not sure if there is a name for it?
Further, he twists the words ‘spoke’ and ‘gospel’ to rhyme with ‘picasso, colossal, todo case, etc.."