This is a sequel to 2001's "Reckless Abandon", and features the band looking back on their clumsy youth fondly.
Ayo, rappers stepping to me, they want a brick, son
But I'm the Chef, my price is 26, son
Move up, about 32 of those and open locker dough
Soldier got locked up, blow killed the doctor
Flamboyant police is X fives, watching my lofts
So many leeches I just left it and walked
My flow wicked, Miami money, moving and ridicly
Geico on the arm froze, rose gold with me
Take baths with white women, lingerie see-through
Taking trips to Iran, my Spanish nigga people
Selling drugs to Flatbush, call my nigga Cecil
Snub with the black gloves, on half-moon Greek do
Killed him in the Bahamas, his wife ran, white van pulled up
They caught him out in Brooklyn with a white man
Slutted out, rosed out, sister was gone, she geeking
She threw the rifle in her mouth and said 'good evening'
Yup, Paul Wall grill line, be getting money, crime thief
I know her from Africa, pretty smile, nine teeth
Gold joints, frames only, Louis Vuitton, Pony
Leather with the matching sweater on, you owe me
Knock the ash off the blunt, confront niggas who cunt
Swing an ax, tax niggas rhyme different from cats
Specialize in mic rippers, splashes
We the last skippers, big rocks and the block will stick
Beefsteak Charlie niggas eat and they get fat
Chase heads up and down the block and kill rats
Skilled with the gats, even feds don't know where the shells at
The shell trapped up in nice crib with four packs
Four macs, caught a nice cell for four stacks
Yeah, me and my nigga Arafat
Gotta escape but we'll be right back, real soon
Chef cook it up, we got a date with real goons
Telling you Ghost, my connect crazy with the wreck
Pythons used to talk to her sister named Yvette
I speed it up, me and the Linx, was getting weeded up
I beat it up, yeah I hit that, but I ain't seed it up
Meanwhile, back on the block, we seen two trucks
Then the windows rolled down, we see these two fucks
Soon as they jumped out, see these tools bust
Knock the ash off the blunt, confront niggas who cunt
Swing an ax, tax niggas rhyme different from cats
Specialize in mic rippers, splashes
We the last skippers, big rocks and the block will stick
Yo, I lit a booger up, rocks is gone, so we bagging up all shape
Binoculars, scanners, we all listen to jake
Ran out of baggies, my mouth is dry
Got them dirty joints all scattered, don't act surprised
Nah, nigga the currency rushes like popping a wheelie
Holding a pipe with one hand, the other down in the Bentleys
You know how it be with the peppermint Clarks
Throwing darts at a hoodrat
Getting slow necked all up in The Bronx
That's all me, thirty four shines, forty four lines
I just chill like Aaron Hall, writing raw rhymes
Like, threw Kool-Aid rubies in a lemonade bezel
When I was 12 in the church, I started packing that metal
A deuce deuce, my supplier was Loose Bruce
Ever since I had the drop, my instinct was to shoot-shoot
This ain't For the Love of Ray J, it's for the love of the AK
'Cause you can get scratched like AJ
Cuban Link Dynasty has emerged, this rap shit stop
I have a team of niggas moving my furs
Knock the ash off the blunt, confront niggas who cunt
Swing an ax, tax niggas rhyme different from cats
Specialize in mic rippers, splashes
We the last skippers, big rocks and the block will stick
But I'm the Chef, my price is 26, son
Move up, about 32 of those and open locker dough
Soldier got locked up, blow killed the doctor
Flamboyant police is X fives, watching my lofts
So many leeches I just left it and walked
My flow wicked, Miami money, moving and ridicly
Geico on the arm froze, rose gold with me
Take baths with white women, lingerie see-through
Taking trips to Iran, my Spanish nigga people
Selling drugs to Flatbush, call my nigga Cecil
Snub with the black gloves, on half-moon Greek do
Killed him in the Bahamas, his wife ran, white van pulled up
They caught him out in Brooklyn with a white man
Slutted out, rosed out, sister was gone, she geeking
She threw the rifle in her mouth and said 'good evening'
Yup, Paul Wall grill line, be getting money, crime thief
I know her from Africa, pretty smile, nine teeth
Gold joints, frames only, Louis Vuitton, Pony
Leather with the matching sweater on, you owe me
Knock the ash off the blunt, confront niggas who cunt
Swing an ax, tax niggas rhyme different from cats
Specialize in mic rippers, splashes
We the last skippers, big rocks and the block will stick
Beefsteak Charlie niggas eat and they get fat
Chase heads up and down the block and kill rats
Skilled with the gats, even feds don't know where the shells at
The shell trapped up in nice crib with four packs
Four macs, caught a nice cell for four stacks
Yeah, me and my nigga Arafat
Gotta escape but we'll be right back, real soon
Chef cook it up, we got a date with real goons
Telling you Ghost, my connect crazy with the wreck
Pythons used to talk to her sister named Yvette
I speed it up, me and the Linx, was getting weeded up
I beat it up, yeah I hit that, but I ain't seed it up
Meanwhile, back on the block, we seen two trucks
Then the windows rolled down, we see these two fucks
Soon as they jumped out, see these tools bust
Knock the ash off the blunt, confront niggas who cunt
Swing an ax, tax niggas rhyme different from cats
Specialize in mic rippers, splashes
We the last skippers, big rocks and the block will stick
Yo, I lit a booger up, rocks is gone, so we bagging up all shape
Binoculars, scanners, we all listen to jake
Ran out of baggies, my mouth is dry
Got them dirty joints all scattered, don't act surprised
Nah, nigga the currency rushes like popping a wheelie
Holding a pipe with one hand, the other down in the Bentleys
You know how it be with the peppermint Clarks
Throwing darts at a hoodrat
Getting slow necked all up in The Bronx
That's all me, thirty four shines, forty four lines
I just chill like Aaron Hall, writing raw rhymes
Like, threw Kool-Aid rubies in a lemonade bezel
When I was 12 in the church, I started packing that metal
A deuce deuce, my supplier was Loose Bruce
Ever since I had the drop, my instinct was to shoot-shoot
This ain't For the Love of Ray J, it's for the love of the AK
'Cause you can get scratched like AJ
Cuban Link Dynasty has emerged, this rap shit stop
I have a team of niggas moving my furs
Knock the ash off the blunt, confront niggas who cunt
Swing an ax, tax niggas rhyme different from cats
Specialize in mic rippers, splashes
We the last skippers, big rocks and the block will stick
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Okay I've studied the chef for years, ima explain for y'all whats down in his rae raes kitchen:
"Yo, yo, Iron Chef (gracias)" Raekwons common used nickname is the chef, and "iron" is refering to Ghostface Killah who was a feature on this track. He was common on Rae raes debut and on the album this song is on (Only built 4 cuban linx pt.2) Starting of Rae is talking with his drug man, they are dealing.
"I need some of that, (slide through the back)"
Raekwon is talking about the drugs, aka bricks, aka cocaine. So his man if offering him to go to the back of the store as stated later on in the intro.
"We got some culinary cats right here, we need you (we'll kill him if he fault)"
When dealing drugs you want shit to come correct, nahm mean? No snitching and make sure to use the rhight amount of that caine.
"Ayo, rappers stepping to me, they want a brick, son But I'm the Chef, my price is 26, son"
First of all for all of you newbies, this is Rae paying homeage to a man, a man who is the reason your favourite rapper aproached the mic differently, Big Daddy kane. The line was from "aint no half steppin", it went like this:
"Rappers stepping to me, they wanna get some, but im the kane so yo, you know the outcome"
Raekwon is continuing his drug and mafiaso persona with the drug talk. A brick usually costs 20 k or 22 k, but Rae rae only got the finest caine, so his price is more expensive.
"Move up, about 32 of those and open locker dough Soldier got locked up, blow killed the doctor"
Chiefs caine is so good, it deserves a even higher price and ofcourse he wants to hide it. Soldier can mean a person in the ghetto who stays strong and blow is slang for caine, so lets put this metaphor short: Some brothers got caught tryna get some, ofcourse they want it, even the doctors who are all about staying healthy couldnt resist neither, but it was so great, that they got amazed.
"Flamboyant police is X fives, watching my lofts So many leeches I just left it and walked My flow wicked, Miami money, moving and ridicly"
Btw, "ridicly" is actually "ridicule".
Anyways, rae is talking bout escaping, cops was watching his spot., so many chased him, he just left his money.
When he says "my flow wicked" he is ofcourse talking about his cashflow. Amount of money he has. THe money he getting is wicked since it came from selling drugs.
The miami money is just a way of saying alot of money.
When he says moving he is refering to moving bricks, selling drugs in other words and ridicule is getting away the drugs. He left his money so now he needs more money.
"Geico on the arm froze, rose gold with me"
Rae has expensive clothing and just expensive things due to his drug dealing.
"Take baths with white women, lingerie see-through"
Lingerie can be womens underwear, continuing the "take baths with white women part", Rae is giving vivid pictures of what the time on the streets has given him. Some nice ladies.
I will explain more tomorrow, Hope I gave you a better understanding of Rae's use of slang and way of rapping.