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Literally sleeping on a hard bed would not be comfortable – you couldn’t sleep.
Chance’s bars are so hard you literally can’t ignore them. If Chance were a bed, it would be something like this:
On the phone talking bout how Bush trying to disparage us Rapsody (Ft. Chance the Rapper) – Lonely Thoughts
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Chance paints quite the intricate image:
a parrot repeats back what it’s told
a parapalegic is someone paralyzed from the waist down
a no fly zone is an area where planes are not permitted to fly
Chance is literally incapable of helping stop the injustice around him, so he’s just parroting the wrongs he sees to the world. And even if he could physically do something, the no-fly zone means the government would stop him anyway. All the odds are stacked against him.
These bars are reminiscent of his second verse on “Everybody’s Something”
“Like I’m dancing with the Devil with two left feet and I’m pigeon-toed / In two small point ballet shoes with a missing sole / And two missing toes
The image he creates of himself is so intentionally absurd to emphasize the underlying point.
And ask it if it's ticklish Rapsody (Ft. Chance the Rapper) – Lonely Thoughts
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Two heavy-weight artists, and that’s a double entendre. Both Action Bronson and Adele weigh a lot, but their music also holds a lot of weight.
Adele’s album 21 was globally the most-selling album in 2011 and 2012.
Coffee, Rapsody (Ft. Chance the Rapper) – Lonely Thoughts
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Like two peas in a pod, Chance and his raps are an incredible pair. Might also be a reference to RAPsody who sounds like a perfect pair for Chance on this beat.
Fun Fact: Chance once was on TV in a coffee cup:
https://twitter.com/chancetherapper/status/428639538315948032
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Referring to his wildly-celebrated sophomore mixtape, Acid Rap. The superb quality of the project has many saying it’s too good to be classified as a “mixtape” and that Chance should call it an album and sell it in stores.
The way he says “retell” might also be RETAIL. i.e. the tape was so good, he should sell it, which someone, somewhere has actually done, illegally.
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