And the most lyrical beast living you ain't even know
And it's a million years later and the fan base keep growing R.A. The Rugged Man – Complex Superiority
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I'ma reign forever check your local weather forecast R.A. The Rugged Man – Complex Superiority
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Despite R.A’s infamous past as a loose cannon, he uses reign/rain as a homophone by saying that he will reign supreme as King of Rap, and will do this by raining down a lyrical storm.
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Her flow hits so hard you might as well get some Chinese karate masters to match it. Get that weak shit outta here and bring on the best.
Like the chosen one!
Yeah you just an amateur, Golden Gloves in the daily news R.A. The Rugged Man – Complex Superiority
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Golden Gloves is an amateur boxing competition. Continuing the boxing theme, RA is contrasting the difference between his professional flow and current mainstream amateurs.
RA is a huge boxing nut, and displays his knowledge throughout many of his rhymes.
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You try to start beef with RA and you’ll wish you hadn’t so much so you’ll turn vegan and stop fucking with beef altogether.
Also, the imagery of the alliterative participles — beating, bleeding, beefing — is of raw, like RA, bloody meat the opposite of vegan often perceived mockingly as weak or pale.
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A list, nearly verbatim, of things that get you higher and higher ratings on the TV Parental Guidelines system.
Basically, he’s so raw that he’ll never be accepted by the mainstream.
I'm the big daddy, You just Camachos and Chavez juniors R.A. The Rugged Man – Complex Superiority
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RA is the big daddy of hip-hop. This is a reference to Big Daddy Kane. He’s a lyrical heavyweight. Continuing, RA then compares the old school with the new school using a boxing analogy:
Hector “Macho “Camacho Sr. and Julio César Chávez were considered greats in the sport.
Both had sons who became boxers, albeit neither have been as successful as their fathers.
Similar to this case, RA is an original, never duplicated, while the new school is a watered down copy.
Jesus Christ the Lord, you can see me walking on the ocean
Let me do some exposing while you trying to be a thug, posing
You a faggot rapper in the gay club voguing R.A. The Rugged Man – Complex Superiority
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RA is the chosen one of Hip-Hop, so much so that the Lord Jesus recognizes his miracle flow, thus he is the truth. He then contrasts this by exposing other rappers as being the opposite of what their thug image implies.
in the gay club voguing
This is to vogue, meaning strike a pose, similar to that of a fashion model:
Which is to say other rappers are more concerned about image (i.e. photo shoots and magazine covers.)
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Steve-O knows how to party, and his hygiene is the stuff of legend. She needs to get squeaky clean after her epic binge.
Case in point!
When she says “Jump in a tub and go get white washed” She isn’t meaning to get clean. She means to be succesful in the industry you have to be white. Go look up the term white washed.