| Kanye West – So Appalled Lyrics | 14 years ago |
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Not to be picky, but it just makes more sense to the line to be: "Blackjack, I just pulled an ace as you looking at the king in his face" Otherwise Pusha apparently doesn't know how blackjack works. As for my actual comment, I think Pusha T takes the first place medal in this song.His verse is the most brutal and the darkest of the four, especially the line: "them kilos came, we gave you bobby brown jaw Flaws ain't flaws when it's you that makes the call" It takes the image of the cocky rapper tooting his own horn and turns it into that of a true gangster, a true kingpin, heartless in pursue of the "Half a mil in twenties." And then it examines morality, disregarding it as a factor. He is his own judge and jury, and is unapologetic. None of the other verses deal with such an epic 'character.' Pusha epitomizes gangster here, and does it with one of the best verses I've heard. Kanye really brings the best out of his guest performers |
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| Blind Pilot – Oviedo Lyrics | 15 years ago |
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I feel like it's about a girl whose heart he broke, but wanting her back. "Four times is once too much for luck," resonates with me as a man who has fallen in love with the same girl four times over, and knowing that it means something. It can't be luck. It must be fate. Spain is ultimately irrelevant, I think. It may be the location of one of their encounters, but aside from that it stands only to make a statement about a foreign nostalgia, of a time that seems so different from what he now calls home. "If my eyes were on my back, I know what I'd be looking at..." shows that he's hanging on tight to the past, to a happier time, when they were together. |
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| Eminem – Music Box Lyrics | 15 years ago |
| I like to entertain the idea that the music box is a metaphor for a pill bottle. Winding it up is like opening the childproof lids. The attic scene describes him in a state of mind where all the demons the pills awoke mean nothing in search of the bottle. He digs through human parts for the bottle, referencing his several serial killer raps on the rest of the album. It creates a very dark, lucid description of the true darkness of Shady. | |
| Gorillaz – Clint Eastwood Lyrics | 15 years ago |
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First off, to support my interpretation, I'm almost positive that it's "Righteous with one toke, psychic among those..." as in a toke off of a pipe or joint. "...because I put you on the hype shit," most likely means good weed. "You like it? Gun smoking," describes the hit. The smoking gun symbolizes smoke billowing out the end of the pipe or joint. "Righteous, with one toke," describes the quality of the weed. It only takes one hit to get there. "Psychic among those," describes the high, and the peak in focus that some people get when they smoke. "Possess you with one go," refers again to the quality of the weed again. If you listen to Del's other raps, I think the interpretation fits. And I think that the general consensus is that "Sunshine in a bag," refers to a bag of weed, and the rest of the 'chorus' supports it. These bars included, I don't think you can deny the marijuana references. In fact, I think it's all about how he as a rapper feels while smoking weed. Certainly there are the stoner references to the corruption of the system, and Del does a great job. I just feel that the song is talking almost solely about 'opening your mind' to the euphoric, ethereal experience. And when you open your mind, your trust and faith in society often falters. |
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