i only listen to the first verse cuz that's the only real song. here's just how i take it. most bars have double meanings. i'll put it in sections.
It's mean, soldiers
Now let me put the streets down like steamrollers
With the CATS that push
40 oz. through the hood like King Cobras
See we sling soda
'Cause the extra four in the split is mix
It's really 36
*now let me put the streets down like steamrollers- let people know what's up.
*we're the CATS push - dudes who push or sell 'product' /caterpillar makes heavy machinery, like steamrollers
*40 oz through the hood like king cobra, see we sling soda - it makes sounds like drinks but it's actually talkin bout the 'product', 40 oz of it, about a kilo, the soda is baking soda
*cuz the extra 4 in the split is mix, it's really 36 - they cut the 'prodcut' to profit, 4 ounces is baking soda, the other 36 is the real
Used to buy toasters and clips
You can tighten your circle or boa constrict
While you was lighting your purple, I was over the scripts
See, I could walk the walk, couldn't really talk the talk
Had to get my talk to properly explain my walk
'Cuz this lack in talk had my walk looking off
Now I'm over the limp
Watch how they mugs drop when they see my Verbal's able
(That's the Usual)
*basically this part just means what it says. had the swagger, but not the words to express. had to correct that. now he's over that 'over the limp'.
*watch how they mugs drop - sound of glass breaking / faces in shock
*when they see my verbal's able (that's the usual) - his words are right on / at the end of the usual suspects you find out verbal kint who seemed average was actually keyser soze the baddest dude ever and he played everyone, if you never saw it i just ruined the ending
When I was Po I was Lo
Now me and my Chaps cop Purple Label
It's Ralph Lauren on the rap laureate
Niggas brown nose, they are like Alf to him
*Polo, Chaps, and Purple Lable are all Ralph Lauren brands
*I have no idea what he's sayin about alf. that was a show with an alien who was a brown dude, alf stood for alien life form, but i don't think that's what he's talkin about.
Runners at Interscope are not as Stout as him
Please don't endoscope
It's gonna be a whole lot of Iovine and respiratin
If I lean out this window with Irene
*Stout - Steve Stoute, google him with interscope records
*endoscope is a medical tool which falls in with Iovine (iv'ing intravenously)
*Iovine - Jimmy Iovine, google him with interscope records too
*Irene ?? no idea thought there was a song or movie or somethin with somethin like "i call my gun irene" but i don't think that's it
Niggas as tall as Yao Ming
With L-U-P-Emperor
Is the foundations, I-Beams, and the antennas
It's so serious/Sears every time I write my John Hancock like
Could damn near see Detroit
Niggas is scared of heights
*yao ming's tall. this part just starts the tall building/skyscraper theme.
*L U P Emperor spells lupe
*foundations, I-beams, antennas - all parts of buildings, continuing the theme
*it's so Sears everytime i write my John Hancock - Sears Tower and the John Hancock building, both skyscrapes in chicago
This is saran wrap and aluminum foil
Some potpourri, a little machine oil (aqua)
I stack my paper and throw off my scents/cents
This is top flo', better look out below
*don't know if it actually works or not, but back to drugs, if you put them in the saran wrap, alum foil, with the potpurri and machine oil, it should through off their scent (cents/scents) in case k-9s were search for it
*top flo' - best flow / top floor. top floor goes to the building/skyscraper theme and the rest of the verse.
Pennies from heaven is the same as the semi from the second
And I rain/reign supreme
Turn your umbrellas upside down
Did you even catch the change in theme?
*pennies from heaven - goes back to the skyscraper theme and the 'stack my paper and throw off my cents' line. if you throw your 'cents' off the roof their pennies from 'heaven' or high up.
*are the same as a semi from the second - this builds more on the tall building/pennies cents theme. there was an urban legend that if you drop a penny from the top of a tall building like the empire state building it could kill someone, just like a handgun or 'semi-auto' could
*and i reign/rain supreme - reign supreme he's the best / rain as in the pennies or cents or change that he threw from the top of the building
*turn your umbrellas upside down, did you even catch the change in theme? - if pennies/cents/change was falling from the sky all around you and you held an umbrella upside down, you'd probably 'catch some change' in it
i could be completely wrong, that's just how i take it and it's a sick song. i want more people to get it and to get lupe cuz all his songs are wild if you listen to the lyrics.
i only listen to the first verse cuz that's the only real song. here's just how i take it. most bars have double meanings. i'll put it in sections.
It's mean, soldiers Now let me put the streets down like steamrollers With the CATS that push 40 oz. through the hood like King Cobras See we sling soda 'Cause the extra four in the split is mix It's really 36
*now let me put the streets down like steamrollers- let people know what's up.
*we're the CATS push - dudes who push or sell 'product' /caterpillar makes heavy machinery, like steamrollers
*40 oz through the hood like king cobra, see we sling soda - it makes sounds like drinks but it's actually talkin bout the 'product', 40 oz of it, about a kilo, the soda is baking soda
*cuz the extra 4 in the split is mix, it's really 36 - they cut the 'prodcut' to profit, 4 ounces is baking soda, the other 36 is the real
Used to buy toasters and clips You can tighten your circle or boa constrict While you was lighting your purple, I was over the scripts See, I could walk the walk, couldn't really talk the talk Had to get my talk to properly explain my walk 'Cuz this lack in talk had my walk looking off Now I'm over the limp Watch how they mugs drop when they see my Verbal's able (That's the Usual)
*basically this part just means what it says. had the swagger, but not the words to express. had to correct that. now he's over that 'over the limp'.
*watch how they mugs drop - sound of glass breaking / faces in shock
*when they see my verbal's able (that's the usual) - his words are right on / at the end of the usual suspects you find out verbal kint who seemed average was actually keyser soze the baddest dude ever and he played everyone, if you never saw it i just ruined the ending
When I was Po I was Lo Now me and my Chaps cop Purple Label It's Ralph Lauren on the rap laureate Niggas brown nose, they are like Alf to him
*Polo, Chaps, and Purple Lable are all Ralph Lauren brands
*I have no idea what he's sayin about alf. that was a show with an alien who was a brown dude, alf stood for alien life form, but i don't think that's what he's talkin about.
Runners at Interscope are not as Stout as him Please don't endoscope It's gonna be a whole lot of Iovine and respiratin If I lean out this window with Irene
*Stout - Steve Stoute, google him with interscope records
*endoscope is a medical tool which falls in with Iovine (iv'ing intravenously)
*Iovine - Jimmy Iovine, google him with interscope records too
*Irene ?? no idea thought there was a song or movie or somethin with somethin like "i call my gun irene" but i don't think that's it
Niggas as tall as Yao Ming With L-U-P-Emperor Is the foundations, I-Beams, and the antennas It's so serious/Sears every time I write my John Hancock like Could damn near see Detroit Niggas is scared of heights
*yao ming's tall. this part just starts the tall building/skyscraper theme.
*L U P Emperor spells lupe
*foundations, I-beams, antennas - all parts of buildings, continuing the theme
*it's so Sears everytime i write my John Hancock - Sears Tower and the John Hancock building, both skyscrapes in chicago
This is saran wrap and aluminum foil Some potpourri, a little machine oil (aqua) I stack my paper and throw off my scents/cents This is top flo', better look out below
*don't know if it actually works or not, but back to drugs, if you put them in the saran wrap, alum foil, with the potpurri and machine oil, it should through off their scent (cents/scents) in case k-9s were search for it
*top flo' - best flow / top floor. top floor goes to the building/skyscraper theme and the rest of the verse.
Pennies from heaven is the same as the semi from the second And I rain/reign supreme Turn your umbrellas upside down Did you even catch the change in theme?
*pennies from heaven - goes back to the skyscraper theme and the 'stack my paper and throw off my cents' line. if you throw your 'cents' off the roof their pennies from 'heaven' or high up.
*are the same as a semi from the second - this builds more on the tall building/pennies cents theme. there was an urban legend that if you drop a penny from the top of a tall building like the empire state building it could kill someone, just like a handgun or 'semi-auto' could
*and i reign/rain supreme - reign supreme he's the best / rain as in the pennies or cents or change that he threw from the top of the building
*turn your umbrellas upside down, did you even catch the change in theme? - if pennies/cents/change was falling from the sky all around you and you held an umbrella upside down, you'd probably 'catch some change' in it
i could be completely wrong, that's just how i take it and it's a sick song. i want more people to get it and to get lupe cuz all his songs are wild if you listen to the lyrics.
Alf was a brown alien with a big nose from an old sitcom called ALF
Alf was a brown alien with a big nose from an old sitcom called ALF