| Eric B. & Rakim – Paid In Full Lyrics | 19 years ago |
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This song is about the trappings of life (money), and how with it, both with it or without it, can effect or influence your decsions. You have Rakim clearly anaylzing his life. Reflecting on what he would do to get money. Then his revelation of rightousness, and learning value, joy, and pride of earning an honest dollar. Utilizing Hip Hop as a vehicle to touch others. Then, Rakim mentions fish. This has a very deep meaning. "That the creeping things of the waters," or fishes, signify memory-knowledges, is plain from Isaiah:- Also, Fishes in the Word signify memory-knowledges, which spring from things of sense. For memory-knowledges (scientifica) are of three kinds: intellectual, rational, and sensuous. All these are planted in the memory, or rather memories, and in the regenerate man are called forth thence by the Lord, through the internal man. These memory-knowledges which are from things of sense come to man's sensation or perception when he lives in the body, for he thinks from them. The rest, which are interior, do not come so much to perception until man puts off the body and enters the other life. That fishes or the creeping things which the waters produce, signify memory-knowledges, may be seen above (AC 40); and that a whale or sea monster signifies the generals of these knowledges. |
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