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But like roadkill, I'm still on this road
Bold as any soldier playing his role
I stroll the streets in the cold Blu & Exile – The Narrow Path
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Roadkill is an animal that has been run over by a car. When the animal runs over and sees the car, it doesn’t know what exactly the cars going to do. The same goes for the person in the car, that person may not know what the animal’s reaction to the car will be. In the same way, Blu is sticking to the road he’s traveling on even though he doesn’t know what to expect.

Homeboy did say he was homeless…

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I hope that ain't true, cause' I still got my gun cocked Omen – Motion Picture
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In life, when big opportunities come, they only come once. Unless you’re lucky. Omen hopes this is not the case because if so, then he’ll have to resort to crime.

Another way of seeing it is that he’s still going to try and hit the target even if he does miss his first shot, until he gets it.

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“I hope that aint true cause i still got my gun cocked”
There is tonal perception here.
“I hope that aint true cause i steal, got my gun cocked”

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An allusion to ‘lose yourself’.

Omen hopes the lines ‘you only get one shot’ found in the opening lines and hook, are not true.

This is because he still has his ‘gun cocked’ meaning he is about to take his shot, but knowing that you only get one puts all the more pressure on this one shot.

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I'm over-thinking everything, mind games...
Feel like it's feeding on my brain, now
I'm second guessing every effort, every sentence
Does my breath need less inflection, am I being too reflective?
Is such and such really better? Is my message even clever?
I'm apprehended by this pressure, but shall I surrender? Omen – Motion Picture
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Omen begins to second guess himself here.

As you begin rapping and gaining momentum, you often begin to doubt yourself as to whether you can actually become great. And so you over-think or over-analyse everything that you do. From the even the smallest sentence, to your whole song.

Inflection: Alteration in pitch or tone of the voice.

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Omens a perfectionist

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In the crib, hit the shuffle now it starts that Eminem
'said you only get one shot,' Omen – Motion Picture
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A reference to Lose Yourself by the Rap God himself. Note the comparison here: Lose Yourself was the lead single for the movie 8 Mile in which Eminem plays the character of Bunny Rabbit – Jimmy – who is a genius rapper but is passive and quiet when in the presence of other rappers, whom he’s actually better than. In the same way, Omen is also like Rabbit – passive, quiet but has fire rhymes.

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Bunch of young Trap Lords and we down for sinning A$AP Ferg – Fergivicious
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Ferg, and ASAP MOB are the Trap Lords. And they’re down to do whatever. Note the Oxymoron here:

Lord – Meaning God. Also associated with godliness, christian life etc. Sin – obviously meaning everything bad which is not supposed to be done.

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Put 'em in the water with a bunch of fishes A$AP Ferg – Fergivicious
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As Game said it best:

One phone call, I’ll have your body dumped in Marcy.

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Bet them niggas dressed up in them white suits
Rhythm and the blues in a white coupe
Spit it through a cloud with a nice boo A$AP Ferg – Fergivicious
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The colour most associated with Heaven is white. Ferg imagines what both Rocky’s father and his father will be doing beyond the pearly gates. As Ferg describes it – they’ll definitely be tailored in some white suits, listening to some BB King in a Bentley Coupe and chilling with a pretty angel.

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Nightmares of being broke cause I'm seeing no cheese
Bitch coming at me cause I'm dropping no fees
She can get up on a nigga for about a couple G's A$AP Ferg – Fergivicious
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As Weezy said it best:

Nightmares of the bottom…

The money’s coming slow as a snail, and so this leaves Ferg stressing. Another sense of his paranoia. Another nightmare of his, is the fact his girl is are his neck because he doesn’t have money to blow. Phife Dawg also shares the same sentiment.

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'bout 2 keys for the snow sniffing A$AP Ferg – Fergivicious
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Keys – Kilos of coke. See Blu’s description here.

Snow sniffing – Cocaine Castle.

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And we sip, cause we hurting A$AP Ferg – Hood Pope
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When a person is sick, whichever part of their body is affected is the part that will hurt the most. In the same way, people who have lived just like Ferg has lived are hurting because of various things that happened to them, which leaves them sick and tired.

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stupid

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In [Verse 1] he says “And we sip, cause we hurting” not “And we sick, cause we hurting”

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