Double Entendre:

• Grown men are stereotypically supposed to be tough and emotionless, so why is he crying over his ex?

• Grown men are supposed to have women to pleasure them, so why is he at home masturbating?

His use of the phrase grown men juxtaposes his use of boys in earlier in the verse. Cassidy suggests that boys treat women badly and don’t care about break-ups. Men, however, take them to heart.

KRIT can’t be the man that she wants him to be. KRIT wants her to accept him for who he is, but she doesn’t. She wants to change him, but if you want to change someone, is that someone really the one you want? And not the person you want to change him in?

He gets that a lot of people are ignorant to how blacks helped create the rock and roll movement and he isn’t trying to diss them (supposedly), but he can’t sit back and do the same. It goes against his moral values.

The statistics that Mos Def is spitting are contradicting everything that the media tells you, as well as everything you thought you knew.

They graduated from the school of hard knocks and grew up in the ghetto so you know that when they’re spitting bars about the ghetto they know what they’re talking about. So because they spit true and honest bars, they are saturating (or purifying) the rap game by battling against other rappers that lie about their lives.

They are the most magnetic because they’re drawing in the largest audiences. Also, they are athletic because they spit some of the best and fastest rhymes in the rap game. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S92CkksTTYQ

Unlike the majority of people who say that they want change in the world, Mr. Bey isn’t just sitting around, watching the world go to pieces and complaining. He knows that just sitting around complaining won’t change anything, so he’s rapping to fight and spread aware of government corruption, prejudice, and to bring his family and all other black people out of the ghetto and into better lives of happiness and prosperity. As Bob Marley said best in “Get Up, Stand Up”:

If Chuck acknowledges what America has truly become and gives you a glimpse of the future of what we can be and what will happen if we stay the same, then hopefully you will be able to do the same

Fight the power,do what the fuck you believe in, because if we all rise up against the government, we will be able to honestly say that we lead ourselves instead of being manipulated by a corporate American agenda, or so Public Enemy wants you to believe.

Chuck’s lines are intelligent and are food for thought, thus they help make you a smarter and more informed individual, contrary to what contemporary rap does.