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Q was slinging crack when he was a kid, not playing childrens' games, such as hopscotch. Q has stated in the past that he has been gangbanging since he was 12.
I can get a hundred of 'em, make over 3 G's ScHoolboy Q – Prescription / Oxymoron
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Q is comparing the success of the Oxy game to the lower profit yield of the crack game. In an interview with NPR, Q talks about how much more profitable selling Oxy was than crack.
Doctors, teachers, uppity people. This is an expensive drug. I was getting $80 to $60 for one pill, you know what I’m saying?
To achieve the same amount of profit he was making selling Oxy, he is saying you will need to re-up many more times and sell much more product with crack.
Q claims to have push drugs in his prime like no one else, which is why he goes onto to say he only needed to reup once to make 3 grand in 48 hours… Sounds like you need to step your game up
A couple Xannies popped, open my pill box ScHoolboy Q – Prescription / Oxymoron
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Q knows that copious drug usage is deteriorating his health and turning his motivation into “rubbish”, but he fears withdrawal and seeing clearly more than his own death. He’s a victim to the struggle, and these pills are his dark-savior.
Sluggish ruggish is also a play on, “Thuggish Ruggish” by Bones Thugs n Harmony
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Smoking weed is often times referred to as “blowing trees”, so Q is at the store trying to buy some Backwoods blunt-wraps that he can use to smoke his weed with.
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Schoolboy’s drug habits are making him lose contact with his main priorities in life: his family. Q refers back to this line in verse two, when saying that if “you ain’t selling drugs, then I don’t hear a thing”.
Recall “Oxymoron” is a song/album about contrasts and contradictions (as an artist father gangster etc.); that being said, note the difference in how Q responds to his ‘girl’ and his daughter
Stuck in this body high, can't shake it off
I'm falling off, I can't hold a thought ScHoolboy Q – Prescription / Oxymoron
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Codeine is an opiate that messes with the natural function of the brain and is commonly mixed with soda and jolly ranchers to create lean.
- Schoolboy-Q is notorious for having a previous lean addiction, and said in an interview that he quit after it gave him retching, “burning” sensations in his stomach. However, he’s back on the lean apparently, albeit he plans on quitting after his tour ends on June 1.
Need a baby 'cause I'm too young and wild to be the savior
Nail me to the cross and I'm just hanging Isaiah Rashad – Modest
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The rap community has chosen Rashad to be the next best socially-conscious-rapper and follow in Kendrick’s freshly made footsteps, but he currently won’t. His reason could be one of two:
He wants to wild out:
He’s in no rush to leave his old lifestyle behind and do so. He’s young, wild, and is going to enjoy his current lifestyle until something mentally or physically (people usually use babies as an excuse to settle down) causes him to want to settle down and be the role model that everyone wants him to be.He’s ashamed that he isn’t stable enough:
There’s a reoccurring theme of suicidal thoughts and drug dependencies throughout Cilvia Demo, and Rashad appears to be pleading for a way out. He knows that he’s not the best role model and thus can’t be the “savior” of conscious rap right now, but he really wants to be and goes as far as to use the hyperbolic idea of having a baby just to settle down and change his ways.
There’s also a Christian motif present throughout these bars, as shown by ‘savior’, ‘baby’, ‘serpent’, and ‘nail me to the cross’, which is used to emphasize how pressured Rashad feels to be the “savior” or conscious rap.
So I figured that the second coming wasn't never coming Isaiah Rashad – Tranquility
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The streets have become warped with violence, racism, and poverty, and it’s not getting much better. The people that are stuck in the trap feel as if society has left them behind, and they have lost all faith in society. They’ve done so even to the point that they resent and hold Jesus responsible for their destitute environment. With this loss of faith, Rashad is claiming that there isn’t much hope to save the streets. Even if someone did try to help, they might get shot down out of resentment and spite.
He says “wasnt never” which is a double negative, which would mean the second coming is coming. Isaiah Rashad is trying take a concept like the rapture and juxtapose it with Hope, specifically in the streets, to display the magnitude of the survival aspect when living in the “streets”.
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An 8-ball is commonly referred to an eigth ounce of cocaine, and Q can move one like no one else. Q is saying that these fake gangbangers have no idea how to actually push drugs.
What you know about a pill? Push an 8-ball
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I always heard “What you know about a pill pusher, aye boy”