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- Yo my ice shines cuz I make a lotta cash
- I [praise](prays), I send my powers [ya way](Yahweh) [fast](people fast in religion, hence the wordplay with Yahweh and prays)
- [And eat a steak cuz I make bread like that](meat &bread is biblical)
- I love rapping but sometimes it’s hard
- [When you try to be inline with all the stars](humans as constellations)
- It’s like I need a new formation, I’m [Aries](a type of constellation and I’m not even Aries) by the way
- [All of these opps nowadays have marble for brains](OPP is the Ontario Provincial Police and they are involved with scandals, stupid ones, hence marbles for brains. And opps as in opposites. Also, from ab souls 47 bars he uses marbles for brain in the song)
- I studied the game with knowledge from my fame
- I shoot like [Rubio](Ricky/RICK rubio), and I’m [slick](slick +Rick =slick rick] with my [19 chains](classic SR reference, also a bar similar to J Cole on January 28th)
- Yeah, i made it out of the slums
- [I got a girl, all curled and she got a bubble bum](paraphrased bar from Lupe’s freestyle on sway in the morning in 2014)
- So yeah, im living life slow
- [My mom told me to “never dine a hoe”](dont eat it, sexually, but don’t comfort it with dining and food and liquor)
- [Ferraris in the rain](the alchemist song reference) [racing super fast](a Ferrari superfast is a type of car)
- [How long will my kingship last?](kingship =reign, Ferraris in the RAIN, I use alliteration here)
- I made it so far and I’m hella glad
- To say that I did it with myself and Gods grace
- [From being broke in the projects, I got a blueprint for my life](blueprints are projects, also shows how they call projects that for a reason because it’s a blueprint for many lives)
- Being the best and the best hustler when I write
- How can another man match this importance
- You’ll have to physically fish out a [swordfish](heavy and difficult to fish out)
- I feel like a [samurai](sword) in an [aquarium](fish)
- My team has a dream, I’ve been carryin
- [Paving new ways like Nat and Harriet](historical figures who actually paved ways for African American slaves, also a call back to Jay Electronicas bar on Exhibit A)
- Yay, tell my mom that I made it
- [And that this ship will not be sunken, not even God can stain this](the builder of the titanic said God couldn’t sink this ship, it got sunk)!
- I’m a [titan, ick](titanic) to many other rappers
- But they’re all cappers! Yeah
- Ferraris in the rain racing super fast
- How long will my kingship last?
- I made it so far and I’m hella glad
- To say that I did it with myself and Gods grace
- Ferraris in the rain racing super fast
- How long will my kingship last?
- I made it so far and I’m hella glad
- To say that I did it with myself and Gods grace
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