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They can’t handle Lupe face to face, so it’s better if he faxed the lyrics to them or if they heard it online.
Putting on/up a front can mean lying, being fake or acting defensive.
Lupe brings the facts to them so they are forced to face reality.
“Ain’t ready for the front” could mean not ready for the frontline as in war. The frontline is generally considered to be the most dangerous place to be on the battlefield. They are not ready to do battle with Lupe.
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Fax them also ties in with the theme of the new world; and faxing people was the old way to send a message.
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He knows he’s being judged, but he’s not letting that affect him.
Also a nice use of internal rhyme: “staring/bearing.”
Finding notices on the floor mats
Five Hundred dollar smoking fines
Can’t let it blow my high
Cause I really can’t afford that Hit-Boy (Ft. Rockie Fresh) – Somewhere In America (Remix)
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When you don’t want people to know you’re smoking in a room, you put a towel under the door to cover up the gap between the door and the floor.
His hotel keeps fining him for smoking.
He can afford the $500 fines, he just can’t afford to blow his high.
I'm never Pippen, bull-headed when it come to rap Rapsody – Kingship
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As Rapsody said before, she’s only in it to be number one in the rap game. She’s not trying to play second fiddle like Scotty Pippen did with Michael Jordan
They mourning, yeah, I killed it
They dormant, still I'm building
Like convertibles, never forced to add a ceiling Rapsody – Kingship
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Rapsody goes hard everytime she gets up on a track; lyrically she’s killing it.
She compares herself itself to a convertible that doesn’t need a ceiling if the owner chooses not to use it, because she has no ceiling on her growth as an artist:
#i.e. NO limits.
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A reference to Menace II Society:
Instead of trying to be a lady, stay calm and go easy with her rhymes, Rapsody’s about to go in because she doesn’t give a fuck
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These other half-steppers couldn’t handle themselves even if the challenge was easy, such as going around in a circle in a Cul-De-Sac
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