can you explain rap lyrics?
Wyclef Jean
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Wyclef is advertising that despite his fame and money he still "puts in work for the block" by selling large quantities of illicit drugs. Could also be a subliminal business advertisement.
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coccaine comes in bricks (a brick of coccaine) so it is often a slang term for coccaine. Slangin' means selling. He is saying that he still sells coccaine where he lives.
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he hasn't let his fame change him. he still hangs out with the same crowd and sells (slings) weed/coke (bricks) just like he used to before he became famous
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He is still selling bricks (a large amount of drugs bagged and taped into a brick shape and size) where he lives
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Baltimore is the location of the award-winning HBO show "The Wire," on which the cops frequently make use of wiretaps to bring down top-tier gang members
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The song is about the difficulties young people face while living in urban environments. "Welcome to the jungle" attempts to characterize the city as a wild, untamed place. Guns N Roses is a citation, a reference to the first artist to use the phrase.
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refers to 9/11. Two birds are two plains that hit the towers, and the NY giants are the World Trade Center towers. Also a play one the football team, the NY Giants.
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He is in the streets trying to sell a couple kilos of drugs, most likely coke.
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i am serving a 10-year jail sentence, and therefore can't support my girlfriend financially. to make money, she has decided to use our house for prostitution
Sweetest Girl (Dollar Bill)
Carnival Vol II: Memoirs of an Immigrant
I will inform you a life lesson I learned after listening to the lyrics of the song C.R.E.A.M. by New York rap group the Wu Tang Clan: My modus operandi is currency-centric.
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