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I’ll probably have less free time this week, so my goals are 70 tates total, 60 transcriptions total and 3 postlets total.
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Well… I didn’t manage to transcribe 100 songs total, but I literally killed it with the tating — 224 total! Wooo! Shit, I don’t even remember making more annotations in a single week ever. I also managed to write the 3 main postlets that I promised.
And the most important part — I won!
I’m winnin', yeah, yeah, I’m winnin'
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The name of the prison is an allusion to the criminal named Willie Horton who was incarcerated and is now serving a life sentence, after being convicted for commiting murder, rape and armed robbery.
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Wordplay on “heat” which is a slang term for a gun. Ransom knows exactly how to control his gun — killing these other rappers. He compares the way he’s controlling his gun to the way basketball player Lebron James practically controls (is the key player of) the team that he currently plays for, Miami Heat.
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People who are guided by one religion, believe that their religion is the truth. Since money is Joey’s religion, it is also what he believes is the truth. So, his money being better than his jeans probably refers to how you can’t realize how much money he’s got just from his clothing style — he’s got way more money than he looks like he’s got.
There is also an allusion to the True Religion brand of jeans, which is very popular today, in this line.
We be spitting the John Blaze, Statik Selektah (Ft. N.O.R.E., Reks & Termanology) – Drunk & High
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The wordplay here is with “blaze” and “Blaze,” which are homographs. The first “blaze” is a French term which refers to something/someone that is plain boring, while John Blaze is a common term to describe something of high quality in hip-hop, inspired by the name of the superhero from the Marvel Comics comic books. REKS and his crew are spitting shit way doper than yours.
Give me a fifth of Rémy Martin, nigga Statik Selektah (Ft. N.O.R.E., Reks & Termanology) – Drunk & High
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Rémy Martin is a popular French brand of cognac champagne. A fifth of champagne is 750ml of it. That will probably be enough for REKS.
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Ransom is metaphorically hitting other rappers up with his dope rhymes. His lyrics are reminiscent of those of legendary rapper 2Pac who is considered by many hip-hop heads to be one of the best lyricists of all time. This is also a direct reference to Pac’s 1988 track “Hit ‘Em Up”.
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After a few great moves and a really nice low cross by Santi Cazorla, Ramsey manages to put the ball very easily into the net of the opponent team. This really gave Arsenal the motivation to go for the equaliser in the real moment.
Ramsey scorers again arsenal have a lifeline