This is a pretty incredible track, reminds of nas's one mic.
We used to be number 10
Now we're permanent one, (This seems like a straight up reference to how well they used to be doing compared to now.)
In the battle lost my finger, Mic became my arm (This to me is more to do with actions not being effective so they resort to words instead.)
If your mafiosos then I'm bringin' on Haitian Sicilians (I'm pretty sure the idea behind this is that Haitian Sicilians are really tight with their family, tighter than the mafioso perhaps?)
Nobody's shootin', my body's made of hand grenade (Good line, sums up the singer as someone who has a large amount of influence on everyone, has authority and is feared maybe.)
Blackula comes to the ghetto, jacks an ACURA (This is about the high amount of stereotyping against black people committing crimes like stealing honda acuras I reckon)
A boy on the side of Babylon, trying to front like he's down with Mount Zion.( In the Rastafari movement, "Zion" stands for a Utopian place of unity, peace and freedom, as opposed to "Babylon", the oppressing and exploiting system of the western world and a place of evil.)
Brooklyn roof tops become Brooklyn tee-pees(Maybe a reference to the level of smoking of drugs etc at the time?)
This is a pretty incredible track, reminds of nas's one mic.
We used to be number 10 Now we're permanent one, (This seems like a straight up reference to how well they used to be doing compared to now.)
In the battle lost my finger, Mic became my arm (This to me is more to do with actions not being effective so they resort to words instead.)
If your mafiosos then I'm bringin' on Haitian Sicilians (I'm pretty sure the idea behind this is that Haitian Sicilians are really tight with their family, tighter than the mafioso perhaps?)
Nobody's shootin', my body's made of hand grenade (Good line, sums up the singer as someone who has a large amount of influence on everyone, has authority and is feared maybe.)
Blackula comes to the ghetto, jacks an ACURA (This is about the high amount of stereotyping against black people committing crimes like stealing honda acuras I reckon)
A boy on the side of Babylon, trying to front like he's down with Mount Zion.( In the Rastafari movement, "Zion" stands for a Utopian place of unity, peace and freedom, as opposed to "Babylon", the oppressing and exploiting system of the western world and a place of evil.)
Brooklyn roof tops become Brooklyn tee-pees(Maybe a reference to the level of smoking of drugs etc at the time?)
Yeah rest of it seems pretty self explanatory. :)