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They feed off of rumors til I hit em with the trueness Jay Electronica – Retro Electro
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Jay keeps ‘em guessing, letting the rumors circulate around him, but him never really saying much. This is applicable to the state of his album: the likes of Just Blaze and The Bullits have said that the album is nearly finished, but Jay has yet to give an actual release date
Note the wordplay of the different usages of the word “left”
I'll make movements oh so fluid and so prudent
I'll have camera mans shooting
Make a movie bout me fighting here in my music that's how I do it Cyclone – Fighter
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Cyclone will make moves in rap so huge it will inspire a movie – Kinda like The Notorious B.I.G.
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5-0 is slang for the police. He’s alerting others that the police are nearby
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“D.O.A” is “dead on arrival” – a term used by the police when they encounter a corpse at a crime scene. Hence, if the MC’s that Jay battled are dead, there needs to be a coroner there to take care of the dead body
It's like Jack Dempsey putting hurtings on bags Cyclone – Fighter
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When Cyclone spits, it sounds like legendary boxer Jack Dempsey hitting speed bags.
This rhymes sounds a bit like Lupe Fiasco’s from SLR
Or Mayweather on the speed bags
Semi-auto keeps the same rhythm he had
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When Cyclone wins, it’s convincingly. Either all the judges agree that he won, or he knocks the other guy out.
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He’s committed to becoming a famous rapper, rather than pursuing a conventional job and struggling everyday. There’s no turning back; he’s committed to a better future
Jay uses the metaphor of a windmill continuously spinning around itself to demonstrate how him turning around would look
Turn back on my ‘heels’ is also a pun for a windmill turning on a ‘hill’