The Abusing of the Rib Lyrics

Lyric discussion by Sublime87 

Cover art for The Abusing of the Rib lyrics by Atmosphere

I read all your meanings. And I agree with them. But now for my meaning. Let's keep his "lover" as a bi-entity, it can either be hip-hop or a women. Throw away the 'must be this or that' perception. With that said, I think it's obvious that slug is touching on the exploration of "her". She's a head-case, she's complicated, she's experienced a lot, and so has he. There were others who tried to explore "her". And it seems like Slug feels like he is going to be the one to conquer this mission. He is going to "take his time and find the right way to climb". And once he encounters the obstacles he'll "cut through trees, and ride through rocks". Meaning to me, he is willing to dedicate his time to persevere where many fail to travel... through her beautiful complications; her neuroses; her flaws; her addictions; her misunderstood side. *Slug loves the hurt women... wtf do you think all his songs are about!? Bleeding Heart's Club? Lucy IS Hip-Hop! God Loves Ugly!?

Slug connects with the complicated, because he himself is conscious of all his complications. Hence, he writes conscious rap. Deep-thinking rap... so when you say there can be multiple meanings I have to agree. That's exactly it.

But I believe the themes he wants to try and communicate are as follow: Exploration of complicated women which can also be hip-hop; Hip-hop is slug's complicated lover. Can we agree to that? Slug's chorus seems to be his claim that he is obviously the right man for this head-case... only if he could show her; only if she chose to see.

I like that explanation, alot. like i said in my reply above to madhattin, notice the connections to his songs, its all just a mind game with what hes trying to say and i love that. like the connection with the chorus in this song and the women singing in the song Fuck You Lucy!