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respect my mind
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- yeah,
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- [I study the streets so you know that I'm a genius]('study, genius)
- I craft these raps with qualities of the rapture, leave em speechless
- [the mecca of the method is my forté, I walk in and woo]('mecca+method=method man, who was a member of the wu tang clan./woo, wu. to woo the people means to suprise/impress them.)
- issues, let somebody try me, and I'll rob em as my interlude
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- [menstrual, I bleed through the paper, as my poetic vision pops out the womb]('menstrual bleed, pop out the womb)
- [my words clot quick, if you think that's due to a stroke of luck, then that's untrue]('severe blood clotting can cause strokes. my words clotting quick means that my bars can mesh together and be hard to understand sometimes, which is why I have to explain like this.)
- [I speak money, ownin' green like a celtic, danny ainge]('danny ainge is a former GM for the boston celtics)
- aimin' at your derriere, (bow!) shootin' from range, you'll remember this pain
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- [amyloid in my lines, this shit hard to break down]('amyloid proteins are tough to break down, also means my bars are intricate)
- [systemic with the flow, infecting your whole sound]('systemic amyloidosis =disease affecting multiple organs, also a reference to me influencing the whole rap game)
- [these rappers dialysis, they watered down, barely functioning]('dialysis =kidney failure treatment, watered down =weak bars)
- [while i’m stage 5 lethal, no recovery comin’ in]('stage 5 kidney failure =terminal, stage 5 =max level, lethal =deadly with bars)
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- [busy searchin' for decency, but as I talk my shit, I don't see anyone as disgusting]('shit talking, like shit in your mouth, which is disgusting)
- these kids talking shit, but really ain't up to nothing, they ain't up on nothing, just running
- [I raise the stakes so high, you need a plane ticket just to ante up]('raise the stakes' =gambling, 'ante up,' also literally raising them high like plane altitude)
- [turn a minor problem major, make a simple fade into a cancer cut]('minor/major' =music keys, 'fade' =music fading out but also a haircut, 'cancer cut'= chemotherapy reference)
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- if it wasn't for annotations, nobody would be able to decipher this cypher
- to wipe out this wiper, wiping out wannabes, poisonous flow like a viper
- poised piper bearing the fruit of my labors, and as I write this, the sun grows brighter
- fruit riper, poison in the preset leave you slow in the brain but fast outside it like you hyper
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- the first album was rushed, the deluxe was the one that set my time
- enough of being loyal, I call a bitch over then we havin' sex by nine
- [my gun's a verb, my fingers do the trig, it alliterates every time ]('verb, DO the trig/the gun alliterating, bullets constantly flying out. also, "the trig, it" is a little bit of an alliteration of the t.)
- accept my rhymes, I repeat some shit, I mean some shit, say it every line
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- listen to what I have to say, I might not be here long, respect my mind
- [you know I don't like gun talk, but you play foul, get a tec by nine]('play foul, get a tec/tech, a gun tec and a referee technical foul)
- hand in hand, got the world in my palms, cuppin' the gun, I protect my nine
- never wanted a gun, but the world's so dangerous, got it in record time
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- got a lotta problems, I spill em onto rappad, so respect my mind
- got a lotta issues, had a wack dad, might die sad, so respect my mind
- got a lotta shit, a lotta weight up on my shoulders, so respect my mind
- got a lot on my plate, got a lotta (uh) yeah, so respect my mind
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- I know they wanna see me crumble, they advertise my demise
- But like lightning I strike back, I leave you fried, right between the eyes
- I see right between the lies like I had scoped vision, scoped 'cision,
- put em in the dirt, with a cross on my neck in case the pope missed it
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- [my pen toxic, these lines leave em paralyzed, cyanide with the script]('toxic lines, cyanide causes paralysis)
- [words surgical, I sharpen scalpels, every bar slit a wrist]('surgical, scalpels/slit wrist =cutting deep both lyrically and literally)
- [outta pocket with the chrome, like I snuck in a sidekick]('chrome =gun, sidekick =firearm sidearm +T Mobile Sidekick, a pocket phone)
- [leave his top flat when I fold him up, like a sidekick flip]('T Mobile Sidekick phones had a flip out top, bar =folding him)
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- [underrated like bruce, but I still got the will to smith bitches]('Bruce Willis/Will Smith, 'will to smith' =forging steel =resilience)
- [stealth mode, mask on, no Zorro, still leave em with stiff stitches]('Zorro left Z shaped cuts, stitches =literal &rap damage)
- [these squares ain't cut out for this, they need big stitches]('squares not cut out =weak rappers, also cut out shapes)
- [let the clip talk, let it stutter, give em a couple of quick wishes]('clip =gun, stutter =rapid fire, three shots =three wishes)
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- [ain't no genie in my bottle, just hollows in the chamber]('no genie in bottle =no magic, hollows =hollow point bullets)
- [face rearranged, now his crew got a stranger, danger]('rearranged face =disfigured, stranger =unrecognizable)
- [whippin' through the jungle with that stick, no Jumanji]('stick =gun, jungle =streets, Jumanji reference)
- [catch you lackin' with ya monkeys, you get spiked like a palm tree]('monkeys =goofy crew, spiked =shot, palm tree spikes)
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- [no check engine light, still got the drive to off you]('drive =determination, off =kill)
- [hop out with the four like I parked at a golf course]('four =.44 caliber, "Fore!" =golf warning)
- [my clip got no bounds, like it skipped on a golf course]('no bounds =limitless bullets, skipping =bouncing)
- [drive by, hit the green, no par, but they chalk boards]('drive =drive by, green =grass &money, chalk =crime scene)
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- [I'm the chef, let the burner talk, that iron flame broil em]('chef, burner =gun, flame broil =cooking &burning victim)
- [leave em stuck in a coil like a snake in the soil then]('snake in soil =coiled snake, coil =curled up body)
- [they runnin' on E, collide with em, infected the gas]('running on E =empty tank, clutch =car reference. also, E, Collide/E. Coli, which can bacterially infect you from meats.)
- [I'll still let the stick shift em if they outta class]('stick shift =manual car, stick =gun, shift =kill)
- //2:33 //
- the first album was rushed, the deluxe was the one that set my time
- enough of being loyal, I call a bitch over then we havin' sex by nine
- [my gun's a verb, my fingers do the trig, it alliterates every time ]('verb, DO the trig/the gun alliterating, bullets constantly flying out. also, "the trig, it" is a little bit of an alliteration of the t.)
- accept my rhymes, I repeat some shit, I mean some shit, say it every line
- //2:44 //
- listen to what I have to say, I might not be here long, respect my mind
- [you know I don't like gun talk, but you play foul, get a tec by nine]('play foul, get a tec/tech, a gun tec and a referee technical foul)
- hand in hand, got the world in my palms, cuppin' the gun, I protect my nine
- never wanted a gun, but the world's so dangerous, got it in record time
- //2:55 //
- got a lotta problems, I spill em onto rappad, so respect my mind
- got a lotta issues, had a wack dad, might die sad, so respect my mind
- got a lotta shit, a lotta weight up on my shoulders, so respect my mind
- got a lot on my plate, got a lotta (uh) yeah, so respect my mind
- //3:06 //
- flip the script, now I'm back with a vengeance
- I'm armed with the flow, got a license to end shit
- [leave em livin' in the past like a life sentence]('living in the past =dead, life sentence =jail)
- these bars infinite, no repentance
- //3:17 (I could've kept going, but I ran out of characters. I was in that mode, too) //
- listen, I...
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