I'm a top ten all time dope MC
You got Chuck D, Rakim, Daddy Kane and Kool G
But right after that you gotta mention me R.A. The Rugged Man – Da' Girlz, They Luv Me
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RA has said this numerous times — he even said he was top 5 lyricists on “Dumb” and also that he was the greatest lyricist ever on the “Make Luv Outro”. That’s not the case this time, but still, he’s sure he’s one of the best and that he should be listed in the best ever lists.
Here he’s listing the rappers whom he considers to be the best: Chuck D, Rakim, Big Daddy Kane and Kool G. Rap. He figures that they are the only ones that are either better than him or on his level.
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“No Scrubs” is a song by RnB group TLC.
A scrub is a guy that thinks he’s fly
R.A is pretty much the opposite of the ideal guy that TLC want — he’s devastated.
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Do I have to pay my way to be played on 97
When I've been doing this shit on stage since I was eleven? R.A. The Rugged Man (Ft. Sadat X) – 50,000 Heads
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Many hip hop songs played on the radio sound the same because they are often by the same producers and artists — it hasn’t changed since this song came out.
Sadat is confused why it’s costing him so much money to get radio plays, when they should want to play his music, because he’s been in the game for much longer than many rappers that get plays.
97 refers to Hot 97 which was the most popular radio station in New York in the mid 90s, playing mostly hip-hop and RnB.
The rest are clueless to what real hip hop music is R.A. The Rugged Man – Every Record Label Sucks Dick
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Following on from the previous lines, people are suggesting that R.A should work with record producer Just Blaze, so he can gain some fame as a white rapper too.
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In the intro to “A Star is Born”, there’s a caller who predicts R.A. will go platinum, because he’s a worldwide man. But, now that he lost pretty much all the chances to become famous, he knows that the only time he’ll have a double platinum or even platinum album is in his dreams. Anyway, he doesn’t even need all that shit.
Black hat, and black Timberlands, from Brooklyn, New York, Timbo King!
In the left hand corner, wearing white trunks, a white wife beater
And dirty white shelltoes, hailing from parts unknown, R.A. the Rugged Man! R.A. The Rugged Man (Ft. Timbo King) – Black and White
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This song is playing on the stereotype that every black rapper is good at the craft and that white rappers are the contrary.
Timbo King, is a black rapper and Wu-Tang affiliate. In the song he is portrayed to be clothed in all black and is wearing Timberland shoes. Timberland boots are popular among some black communities and the title suits Timbo’s name.
R.A. The Rugged Man, on the other hand, is wearing all white clothes. Shelltoe is a nickname for the Adidas Superstar shoe. R.A. is also from New York, but unlike Timbo King, he’s from a smaller, less popular place — Port Jefferson, Suffolk County. As he sings on the hook of “Brawl”:
Here we come from Suffolk County and you might not heard about me but we poor
The two rappers then spit verses, using linguistic anaphora with words black and white.
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“Spade” is a derogatory word for black people and Timbo and his crew of black people are beating up lowlifes like R.A.
Moet is a French winery and one of the largest champagne producers in the world.
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R.A has stated before that he doesn’t have or want beef with Eminem, but when it comes down to it, R.A believes he is the better rapper in the same way if you asked Eminem, he would say that he was the best rapper.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MrktwQys-wQ
In this track though, R.A. refers to the explicit nature of Eminem’s lyrics and the way they were received because he is also a white rapper.
RA is one Emcee that NO ONE ever goes at.
It’s a fact that Eminem borrowed some tools from RA’s toolbox. RA and Cage were two of the first Caucasian “shock” Rappers…
Eminem constantly went after Cage, but when it came to RA… crickets.
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I’d like to see both of them going nuts on a track tbh