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but
I'm sick and tired of askin' my brethren if
It all ends in 2011
Would God come through or would he actually forget us? Capital STEEZ – Free the Robots

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This could be referring to, Christian radio host, Harold Camping’s theory of the Earth’s judgment day being May 21st, 2011 and the end of the world would be October 21, 2011.

This brings STEEZ' to question God’s action on that day. Would God forsake this blasphemous and sinful world? Would the people that were supposed to fly, actually fly? Or are we all to sinful?

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7 years

There are different ways to interpret the line.
1. Asking if god will come through or will he actually forget us could be pondering over weather we are holy enough to be saved
2. But my interpretation of this line is that he is asking if god will come through and punish us, or has god even forgotten about or sinful ways and doesn’t care. Or is god himself a sinner for allowing us to continue sinning.

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7 years

But the Media likes to change the story up, the Mayans didn’t say the world was going to end The “Mayan connection” was a misconception from the very beginning the Mayan calendar does not cease to exist on December 21, 2012. This date is the end of the Mayan long-count period but then – just as your calendar begins again on January 1 – another long-count period begins for the Mayan calendar.

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8 years

Hes talking about the cosmic shift that started in 2011 with many people awakening from 3D to 5D consciousness

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9 years

“it ends in 2011” is probably referring to the fact that many people thought the world was going to end in 2012 according to the Mayan Calender

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clash of the Titans Capital STEEZ – Free the Robots

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Reference to the 1981 blockbuster film, Clash Of The Titans, which has a main character by the name of Perseus, whose father just so happens to be Zeus, king of the Gods, God of the sky, Law, Order and Justice, AND most important to the context at hand, thunder and lightning

Lastly, a fight with gunshots (thunder, no lightning), is equivalent to a fight between gods as its gonna be intense and some one is dying.

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I dont think this line somehow connected with movie or Baphomet, who was one of devils incarnation in Christianity. First of all, Titans were an anscient deities in Greek Mythology, very powerfull ones

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11 years

This line is not referring to the film. Steez thought he was the Baphomet, or a god, who would return to the world in 2047 as this immortal figure during the Apocalypse, or the Clash of the Titans. He is comparing this apocalyptic image to the street violence of today.

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11 years

Clash of the Titans was remade in 2010 too

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Illuminati tryna read my mind with a eagle eye Capital STEEZ – Free the Robots

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It is believed that the Illuminati not only watches you but has a spiritual, and of course satanic, connection with you.

Illuminati tryna control my mind, soul, and my body
Secret society, tryna keep they eye on me

Eagle eye means a higher power in this sense. Eagles are in tha top of their food pyramids, they are apex predators, the government, all those politicians people vote for to control them whether it’s democrats or republicans.

So the Illuminati trying to read his mind, (if you look in the music video), are the people on TV and in the public eye, (because he is looking at the TV the whole time). TV is what controls people and replaces what’s real in your mind to fake. TEL-I-VISION, TEL-EYE-VISION, think about it.

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It is believed that the Illuminati not only watches you but has a spiritual, and of course satanic, connection with you.

>[***Illuminati tryna control my mind, soul, and my body
>Secret society, tryna keep they eye on me***](http://rapgenius.com/277583/Ll-cool-j-i-shot-ya-remix/Illuminati-want-my-mind-soul-and-my-body-secret-society-trying-to-keep-they-eye-on-me)

Eagle eye means a higher power in this sense. Eagles are in tha top of their food pyramids, [they are apex predators](http://rapgenius.com/Capital-steez-apex-lyrics), the government, all those politicians people vote for to control them whether it's democrats or republicans.

So the Illuminati trying to read his mind, (if you look in the music video), are the people on TV and in the public eye, (because he is looking at the TV the whole time). TV is what controls people and replaces what's real in your mind to fake. TEL-I-VISION, TEL-EYE-VISION, think about it.

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3 years

The “eagle eye” he is referring to is the all seeing eye. Also seen on US Currency. He’s saying that the love of money can bring a lot out in people and show our true desires.

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4 years

Tell-lie-vision

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5 years

sounds like he is saying Evil eye

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6 years

The illuminati is also connected to money, especially if you look at the american dollar bill, there is an eagle on it. Eagle eye watching him, same eye which is supposedly the illuminaty on that dollar bill

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7 years

Illuminati watching him with the eagle eye refers to the cctv and satelites Watching everything

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7 years

‘with a eagle eye’ could be a play on the idea the the government and Illuminati are linked because the eagle is a symbol of America, the line meaning the Illuminati is spying on us with the help of the American government

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7 years

Horus had a eagle eye, quite often associated with the illuminati

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8 years

the eagle is the official bird of the U.S., so Steez is saying that the government is (or is at least part of) the illuminati

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10 years

Theres no such thing as having a satanic connection to people lol it’s either negative or positive, satanism has to do with individualism. What this track has to do with is governMENTAL corruption. So illuminati is the government and governmental means to control the mind, eagle eye is everything that has control such as tv’s etc. The whole tel-eye-vision radiates 3rd eyes n forces lies from news and tv shows. Please get it korrect this time

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Freedom Fashawn – Freedom

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From Fashawn’s ablum Boy Meets World

Samples 4 different songs,

“Straight Outta Compton” by N.W.A.

Black Star’s “Definition”

Carl Bradney’s “Slipping Into Darkness”

aaaand Fashawn’s very own, “Shoe Box of Rhymes”

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And in the end we're gonna remain stagnant
I ain't havin' it Capital STEEZ – Free the Robots

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If we don’t stop all of the drug moving we aren’t going to go anywhere, no current, no flow, stagnant. STEEZ isn’t going to take it any longer. If we don’t make a change in the life we are living, we will not progress. It could also be about dying, as in your heartbeat remaining stagnant.

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7 years

I think he predicted he’s death here. It shows a sign he was tired of everything, that’s when he decided to commit suicide

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8 years

we ourselves are locking eachother in the same cycle because society says you wont amount to be anything anyway

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8 years

trappin us in and in the in (end)

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Mom tell me I should let the Lord handle it Capital STEEZ – Free the Robots

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Be a law abiding citizen. Don’t be the hero. Don’t get yourself into the trouble that others cause.
(he’s also saying that his mom told him let his prayers solve his problems.)

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And instead of stickin' up for each other
We pickin' up guns and stickin' up our brothers Capital STEEZ – Free the Robots

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STEEZ is commenting on the general state of society: brotherhood and community is lacking – desperate times call for desperate measure. Instead, they’re turning on one another (this is perpetuated by the government not providing more opportunity in certain neighborhoods).

It isn’t unlikely for you to get murdered by someone over something that they want, especially where he lives.

Lyrically he’s also using “stickin' up” in two ways, both positively (to support during these hard times) and negatively (as a reaction to the hard times).

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It's a shame that flippin' crack will be
The best alternative if you don't make it rappin' Capital STEEZ – Free the Robots

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In the hood the only way you won’t be broke is to pretty much sell crack. And, the only way out of that life is to rap or play for the NBA, sadly.

Steez' fellow crew member Joey Bada$$ once memorably put the dilemma this way:

And I’m thinkin' ‘bout signin’ to the Roc / But my niggas on the block still assigned to the rocks

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7 years

Notice how steez made a flip on the word crack
“Doors are slowly closing as we falling through the cracks of it

The best alternative is flipping crack if you don’t make it rapping"
Steez is making it rapping and flipping crack metaphorically. Adding irony.

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7 years

“Because the streets is a short stop.
Either you’re slinging crack rock or you got a wicked jump shot.”

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8 years

#RIPSTEEZ

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'Bout to one-take this shit, nigga Capital STEEZ – Free the Robots

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In the booth. He’s not going to take another take. He’s not going to mess up. The one take means he’s going to rap straight without his engineer pausing the beat for he could clean up his verse.

Capital STEEZ was actually known for finishing his songs in one take, Pro Era even uploaded a video on YouTube of him doing so on the song Vinyls:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2BMP2kmdXts

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8 years

anyone have the link to that gif?

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The arm of the law is tryin' to man-handle us Capital STEEZ – Free the Robots

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The government makes unnecessary laws in order to brainwash and control us.

Fantastic word play here, arm, hand(le).

It also sounds like he says, “the arm of the lord” meaning the churches. Steez believed that the churches were feeding us false information and trying to misguide us. So the arm of The Lord was trying to screw us over.

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10 years

arm could be referring to gun which with law and man-handling could mean law enforcement. all of which you can then relate to the idea of police brutality.

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