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How can “genuine” artists that claim to be “on road,” English slang for being on the streets grinding, be also selling raps on the subject to the masses? The former makes the latter an unreal job – they cannon coexist as a career.

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A play from an earlier song:

To Piccadilly to Mississippi, I’m live

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Another play on an earlier song:

“Wanna hype up, I’m like ‘okay, G’”

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This alludes to the behaviour of his opponents when there is confrontation. They are nowhere to be seen.

Mandem means ‘those people’.

The case of Madeleine McCann, a young British girl who went missing in Portugal, got a lot of publicity.

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This alludes to the behaviour of his opponents when there is confrontation. They are nowhere to be seen.

Mandem means ‘those people’.

The case of Madeleine McCann, a young British girl who went missing in Portugal, got a lot of publicity.

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This refers to the practice of slavery, and the need to keep enslaved people subjugated. An educated person would understand and be able to argue against being enslaved, which would be against the primary motive of slavery, which is economic.

In his book In My Power: Letter Writing and Communications in Early America, Konstantin Dierks refers to “an epistolary divide” among North American people around the time of the peak of the slave trade and the reluctance to educate slaves.

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Duble Entendre!

The AA are the Automobile Association of the UK,

  • an organisation that is useful to be a member of if you incur a problem while travelling on the road.

  • Using a pseudonym, Lowkey refers to himself as the Automobile Association of the UK.


However, ‘My A.K.A is AA’ could be a refrence to Lowkeys persona as the Alphabet Assassin
https://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_detailpage&v=ToZUIdbgqjE#t=25

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Expression of superior ego in hip hop lyrics is very common, and to some extent is a modus operandi for the rapper. In British slang: bait, describes someone who attracts the attention of trouble, particularly trouble with the police; something that OG’s don’t do. The definition provided in the link is far from adequate for this widely used word.

Furthermore, Lowkey accuses his competitors as being unreliable. It is very unlikely that Lowkey is referring to sexuality, as it would be a slur on those who are not straight, meaning heterosexual, and Lowkey is aware that society of today is more varied in that respect.

He also doubts how genuine is foes are.

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A snake is underworld slang for someone untrustworthy. In many religious tales(no pun intended) and belief systems, the snake represents danger or malicious cunning

The AA are the Automobile Association of the UK,

an organisation that is useful to be a member of if you incur a problem while travelling.

Lowkey removes problems from his path with efficiency.

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Bricky is short for brixton which is a well known urban area in South London

Piccadilly is well known part of Central London. Possibly London’s equivalent of Times Square.

Mississippi is a state in America.

Wherever Lowkey is, he is live, meaning he performs to his fullest regardless of his location.

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