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in this line there are two tennis refferences:
A tennis racquet is used for smashing in tennis
you can smash it literally and break it
another definition of smashing is hitting the ball real hard to the other side of the court like this :
at the same time sean means he is having sex with your bitch!
I’ll serve your bitch
Serving in tennis means opening the game with a starter ball, sean will treat your girl right and have sex with her. he will literally “open” her “game”
Who? Who is it you think you see?
You clearly don't know who your talking to so let me clue you in
I am not in danger Skyler, I am the danger
A guy opens his door and gets shot and you think that of me?
No, I am the one who KNOCKS!! Slimmy D – Heisenberg
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Slimmy D uses a sample from the popular AMC show “Breaking Bad” by using Walter White’s voice.
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With his rhymes he is confusing you, and the double entendres he makes you think real hard about what he meant. when you hear his lines they leave you like:
huh
He has just warmed up, what means this is just the beginning! he got more for us in store!
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A lot of critics and a lot of fans thought that their last album: Welcome to our house (2012) was more aimed at commercial succes and some were convinced by this that their last album had flopped.
Welcome to our house:
With saying “fuck a first week”, joell is indicating that this album will be different than the last one. This album is going to be for the fans not for album sales.
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People use bars to do excercise (pull ups)
A bar is at the same time a verse, noticed how he says “lil' bar” in the song? It’s meant condescendingly, because the verse is nothing special to Joell. By saying he will do a pull up while using his bar, he is able to take his opponents bar and go even higher. He is raising the bar.
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This is a clever line from Joe. You can look at it in two ways.
- Bugging out means: that you perform an action that contradicts your usual behaviour or actions. For “niggas” it is not Usual to go to the Feds (or FBI), take this for example:
- The devices that the FBI uses to eavesdrop on suspects are also called Bugs. In the next line there is a refference that points back at the bugging, In simple words:
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Joell’s assembles (or peers if you like):
Slaughterhouse
Eminem
Yelawolf
All signed to the same label: Shady records, and all very capable of killing rappers with their lyrical capability!
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Joell ortiz’s parents are from Puerto Rico, that explains the PR in this line. He grew up in Brooklyn New York
Ortiz has some other shout outs to his hometown and hood
for example in the control response to kendrick Lamar he says he is New York all day
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In the beginning of the line, Common starts with “Been to the Mediterranean”. If Common was to go there, it would be on his papers, or marked on his passport.
Also, an editor is in charge of a newspaper, so he is literally watching his (news) papers. Common is an editor of a different kind of paper. Instead of newspapers, Common is after his money.
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The universe is so big that we as human, can not fathom it or in other words comprehend it. 99% of space is still unexplored but it all started out from a single atom smaller than anything, on a microscopic level.
Neil deGrasse Tyson gives his opinion of these lyrics from an astrophysicist’s perspective