Preceded to scold me like I was in Secretary Jean Grae – Football Season Is Over
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This beast is making Jean feel like dirt, hence her committing suicide. She compares this to her possible subordination as a woman, Secretary being the 2002 film in which Maggie Gyllenhaal becomes sexually submissive to boss, James Spader.
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…on the other hand, you being on “point” means you’re sucking someone’s dick. This comes from the term “hooker’s point”, which is the streets or area in which everyone knows prostitutes walk for money. Of course, comparing someone to a prostitute is pretty harsh, and they often have low pay and drug problems too.
Atlantic City, New Jersey, famous for its boardwalks and gambling, is perhaps one of the better known places for prostitution in America. In 2006, there was a widely reported case of multiple prostitute murders, so maybe Royce is referring to that.
There is a documentary called “Hookers at the Point”, which inspired the Action Bronson song of the same.
Flick's grainy Pharoahe Monch (Ft. Jean Grae & Royce da 5'9") – Assassins
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Documentaries, such as ones about the world wars, often use archive footage that was taken at the time on early cameras, which were much more primitive than they are now. As such, b&W grainy footage often creates the impression that something is very old and, due to there not being many cameras at that time, important enough to have been filmed.
The moves Monch has made throughout his career, including his work with Organized Konfusion and his later solo albums, are historically important documents and major changes in the rap game, pretty much all of them meeting critical acclaim and underground success. Monch’s story, then, is similar to an archived documentary as it bears many milestones and important images/sounds that are needed to build a picture of the era they were taken in.
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This song was first released in 2011 on Pharoahe Monch’s album W.A.R. (We Are Renegades), so sets the tone from a near-future political disaster, like the V For Vendetta comic/film did.
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Yo-Yo states that her flow is a public display of rap brilliance, much like the term “dogging” is slang for having sex in public. She also refers to herself as being dominant, “the best male”, to demonstrate how badly she penetrates Cube on the track (that’s pretty grim imagery, to be honest…)
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Aside from the squawking shitting flying creatures of the same name, “bird” is also slang for a woman (mostly used in Britain). Perhaps Ride is having some lady trouble. Or more likely the birds symbolise something else like freedom, peace, or vulnerability.
Or maybe MC Ride just fucking hates birds.
Middle fingers. Flip the birds. Fuck you.
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uhh.. something you wanna talk about bud?
Perhaps it’s a reference to the large movement of the conspiracy theory that birds are government drones, that recharge on powerlines.
In the futility of Mr. Grip’s life, He blames it on war and the government’s constant surveillance on him: Hence: Fuck you.
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He can hear the birds in the morning signaling tomorrow (in the morning, when birds b chirping), angered by how fast time moves, he says fuck you to birds
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I think that this hook might’ve come from Mr. Grips trying to fall at a really early/late hour and hearing birds doing morning songs, which made him think, “hey, fuck birds, I’ve got a day I need to sleep for tomorrow.” He probably realized he’s someone who’s free enough to not worry about it though, as mentioned in the annotation for the earlier part of the hook.