The objective of this thread is to evaluate popular rap songs, and confirm their true meaning. You can analyze a single verse or the entire song, whichever your heart desires. For instance “Ice Cream Paint Job” by Dorrough I say... Yeah buddy Rolling like a big shot Chevy tuned up like a nascar pit stop Fresh paint job (check) Fresh inside (check) Obviously the “Yeah Buddy” shows that the narrator is speaking directly to a friend, about something he/she has just recently seen. “Rolling like a big shot” is when the poem takes a more compound and intricate turn, in order to express the narrator’s disorientation with whatever he/she has just seen. “Rolling” is obviously a reference to the magazine “Rolling Stone” and “big shot” shows the pseudo-intellectual approach the publication has recently taken. The narrator is obviously distraught with the periodical, and hates the way the big shots have taken over all mediums in general. “Chevy Tuned up” is an ironic attempt to show the futility of product placement in popular media, and how the corporate fat cats in the media use capitalism to their own advantage. “Like a Nascar pit stop” this shows that the narrator views Nascar as the sport of the proletariat. The narrator believes that if all workers were to have a “pit stop” they would view the over-saturation and corporate take-over of the media in a negative light as well. “Fresh Paint Job…check” and “Fresh inside….check” is asking that the lower-income American’s need to “check” on the “Fresh Paint” and “fresh inside” (both allusions to the popular media plaguing our televisions and radios). ….Now your turn
Sugarhill Gang’s “Rapper's Delight” Grandmaster Flash & the Furious 5 Ice-T Run DMC Salt ‘n’ Pepa The Beastie Boys NWA Vanilla Ice (Robert van Winkle) Snoop Dogg Dr. Dre’s The Chronic NAS Wu-Tang Clan Queen Latifah Jay-Z Eminem Puff Daddy transformed into P. Diddy Hip-Hop Is Dead Hip-Hop Lives Jimmy James Johnson punches Dr. Dre in the face. Lil Kim: The Naked Truth Cam'ron “If I knew a serial killer was living next door I wouldn’t call the cops, I’d move away” 1996 Sean Combs ordered the shooting death of Tupac Shakur, In response Suge Knight ordered the shooting death of the Notorious B.I.G., Suge Knight gets shot 9 years later but lives through the experience only to sue Kanye West who's behavior at the MTV music awards was appalling. Now If only Don Imus had the guts to produce the next great hit “Nappy-Headed Hos” Hotwater
Picture perfect, I paint a perfect picture Bomb the hoochies with precision my intention's to get richer With the S-N double-O-P, Dogg my fuckin homey Youse a cold ass nigga on them hogs I like these Tupac lyrics, as they begin to show a more sensitive side to his character. It is clear he is almost saying he has dreams and ambitions far beyond rapping, and far a-stretch from the violence he knew surrounded him. The song is 2 of Amerika's Most Wanted. He asks to 'paint a perfect picture'. Obviously this is his scenario he wants you to imagine with him . 'Bomb' is slang for getting to work on, and the 'hoochies' are his new clientele- at TUPACS Dog Groomers! He wants to 'bomb the hoochies with precision with his intentions to get richer'. Clearly it means a lot to do a good job, and to be successful. The next verse I am supposing are just a list of his clientele. Look, you have snoopy the dog on there for a start- the man is going places. And finally, a shout out to his competition. Calling other 'cold-ass', and obviously not showing as much affection as he has ever given. Tupac, I believe, likes to perhaps snuggle.
The great thing about rap is that you don't have to pay for their outrageously priced concert tickets or CDs to be entertained by them. Just show up at the criminal court hearings for their latest charges. It's more entertaining than their commercially marketed pedantry where they brag yet again about how cool they think they look in their pimped out lowrider. It's fun to listen to them rap to the judge about how they think they got a bad rap and listen to the judge rap back (would make a great comedy sketch also). The skuffles that happen in the parking lot after the hearings (like spitting on the camera lens, assaults, etc) are good canon fodder for their next court appearance as well as their upcoming rap CD sordidly marketed by Serial Killer Records where they whine about how the system supposedly treated them unfairly. Sometimes you get a real treat where two or more rappers show up at the same court on the same day like they did on this occasion. Hurray! Two-rapper day in Manhattan court: http://gothamist.com/2006/10/25/end_of_foxy_bro.php http://www.nytimes.com/2006/10/25/nyregion/25rap.html?_r=2&ref=nyregion&oref=slogin .
Check out this video https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D9g2szHsoz0&feature=fvw"]YouTube- DJ KHALED, AKON & TI "We Takin' Over" Hotwater
