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What On Earth Does This Mean?

 
 
Quincy
 
Reply Mon 30 Jul, 2007 02:53 pm
What on earth is this guy talking about in his lyrics? Anyone, please?!

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Artist: El-P
Album: Fantastic Damage
Song: The Nang, the Front, the Bush, and ****

(Pass me the tiger piss)
I tunnel rat into the hidden habits of collage dog inferno
No turning paths back(charlie attack!)
The half man have orders to burn the village
And come out with both hands intact
I'm not a mechanism born from disdain, I had to be trained
Now I catcall with dead walkers
I'll send a postcard form the Nang
If I can get onto the roof in time to hang
From the leg of this last chopper

Son of an obese burner perturbed to grow in a row
Of rotating blood colors on brick textures
And others modified climates make nasty tongue plunge
(head shots)
With opposite of chameleon blends from cartoon dreadnoughts
There was this parasite inside my wide intestinal tract
That took over my bark box before I had a chance to take my life back
And his deformed banter suprised me (where at?)
At the recruiters office, learning how to get a head in advertising
He said:
"Sure, others have passed, this is a gate to definition
But thats not the singular attraction to the setup
Not the action or the sacrifice of past draftees
Actually more of a layaway ducats plan
For the young get up and go out motivators
See the new soldiers smolder different
From that antiquated taste of stately hatred"
Well I came from melting options on the D train to the lobby
See academics played second in my life
To unmatriculated brain hobbies
And I admire the dedication to you ranks
Plus want the training
Loss is not a big problem it's all about what I'd be gaining,
"Well you'll get power, respect, an audience, a check, a car, Money for
school, honey with uniform fetish on your tool,
You'll travel, form bonds, be a part of something
have a structure, catch bullets..."
(catch bullets?)
"...I meant cash bonus
See this gold plaque, you could own it
After killing half a million
It's such a good feeling
To earn your country's respect and love
So what do you say son, are you my man?"
**** it, sign me up

Rock rock b boy, rock rock mang
The nang, the nang, the nang, the nang
Rock rock b boy, rock rock mang
The nang, the nang, the nang, the nang

I'm not a mechanism born from disdain, I had to be trained
Now I cat call with dead walkers
I'll send a postcard form the Nang
If I can get onto the roof in time to hang
From the leg of this last chopper

Emerson Lake Palmer aka dirty larva spray harder
What a marvelous martyr maker
50 gig tone hold old dusty digital makeup
Melt with me slower this round
Technical retardation sound round one sound the hardest
Heartless
Heartless harvest, farthest, farenheit alotted
The hot ****, hopped up and shifty
Shift **** sickly, monster
ancient makeshift ministry mic on Nervous slur
bomb teleprompter, sights on
Laser head looks like a linguist
fighter lights flurry down Rounds like a ration
Allied force stranded
Stranded like a lord of the bugs and disbanded
Better bring the band aids
Hustle **** fantasy gun talk
Erotic logic walks out of boxes
Dead thug hug slug, metal like molten
De-evolve thug, crawl back in the ocean
Hoppy Horatio choke on broke potion
Broke and most potent to float, flank the facts
Face the fucks with flak jackets
Jack of all trade
Embargos, faded like '88 Kane fashion
I'm back like packers
Mongoloid melody tracked backwards, broken into fragments
With terpuntine flows that broke down biblical tablets
Broken down handicapped cats leave in traction
The breath of sick death leaves a chest convexed with no F
Six steps to infected waste container misery
Fat thighs chafe in the summer from humidity, humid unhuman
Brains that bloom tulips
Caught between animal thoughts and what was taught by Confucious B-boy
lucid, ugly ************ for faces of art addicts
Just for my people
Persecute plagiarist dangerous at a close range
Dose brains close to the range
To rope frames for the celebrity roast
Most celebrity aspirations get tossed in the moat
With the mackerel, actual track catapult
Corpses act animate
Walk around the back yard munching on brain cabinets
Sad but erratic
Irregular predator with bad brain magic
Magic is a Siegfried and Roy with boy special
Batter the tapestry with bruises
Born to leak from alpine box in hot cruiser (straight bruiser)
With chain mail coats and bullet proof chokers
The most you can hope is to only get half choked
That's half a joke
I'm adamant, AWOL to the last atom
Active ax handler, handle hurt merchandise
Flirt, with inert word device devised
Formed pertinent ties
Tied to word commando kids, rise
Show me those New York eyes
Isolation eats at the face of phrase biters
Bite bleak void, small world big noise
Swallowed by void, wallow with toys
Hollow metal slugs penetrated
Just demonstrated
**** your fake face I hate it
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contrex
 
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Reply Tue 31 Jul, 2007 02:58 am
I suspect a computer program wrote that song! Beware, though, Quincy! Analysing the lyrics of pop songs and attempting to find "meaning" in them can lead to madness. Even the Beatles admitted they often wrote the tunes first and then just picked words to fit. That is a very common practice.
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Quincy
 
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Reply Thu 2 Aug, 2007 11:53 am
I think there is some meaning, and it is anyhting but a popular song...
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contrex
 
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Reply Thu 2 Aug, 2007 12:01 pm
Quincy wrote:
I think there is some meaning,


Well, have it your way then. It looks like some dreadful American rap rubbish to me. God alone knows what it is intended to mean.

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and it is anyhting but a popular song...


"Pop" applied to music, although derived from "popular" (ie for the people, not reserved for an élite), does not carry any implication of popularity in the sense that you mean (widely liked).
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Gargamel
 
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Reply Thu 2 Aug, 2007 12:28 pm
contrex wrote:
Quincy wrote:
I think there is some meaning,


Well, have it your way then. It looks like some dreadful American rap rubbish to me. God alone knows what it is intended to mean.

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and it is anyhting but a popular song...


"Pop" applied to music, although derived from "popular" (ie for the people, not reserved for an élite), does not carry any implication of popularity in the sense that you mean (widely liked).


Actually El-P and Company Flow are godfathers of underground rap. El-P started the Def Jux label, a rather ingenious alternative to mainstream rap which, I would wager, if you've listened to any rap at all (this seems questionable to me) is all you've heard.

But maybe you've heard of Bob Dylan: "Don't criticize what you can't understand."
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Gargamel
 
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Reply Thu 2 Aug, 2007 12:43 pm
Quincy,

I think it's clear that this is about being an American soldier, though of course it's not that cut and dry.

The Vietnam references in the first verse and in the chorus are rather overt and introduce the subject.

The second verse is a narrative, describing the emcees youth and how he came to be a soldier, and in doing so shedding light on how many disadvantaged young men and women are drawn into service: tuition, respect, etc.

The third verse is surreal and abstract, and seems to extend the connotation of soldier, from someone in the armed services, to a "soldier" on the streets.
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contrex
 
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Reply Thu 2 Aug, 2007 12:45 pm
[quote="Gargamel"Don't criticize what you can't understand."[/quote]

I know crap when I hear it, and I don't need any sermons, thank you.
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Gargamel
 
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Reply Thu 2 Aug, 2007 12:50 pm
contrex wrote:
[quote="Gargamel"Don't criticize what you can't understand."


I know crap when I hear it, and I don't need any sermons, thank you.[/quote]

Nor does Quincy need you to thumb your nose at his/her musical tastes when that has nothing to do with the thread.

Is the title, What Do You Think of Rap? No.

The author wants help comprehending the lyrics. So why would you, who likely owns zero rap records, and therefore qualify as an expert on the art form, even post on this thread?
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Quincy
 
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Reply Mon 6 Aug, 2007 04:17 am
Ah, thank you Gargamel. I have difficulty understanding Company Flow/El-P/Aesop Rock etc.
Are you an El-P fan too? (well, I mean I love his production.)
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Gargamel
 
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Reply Mon 6 Aug, 2007 09:05 am
Yeah, I'm a big fan of his production, particularly Cannibal Ox's Cold Vein album. I think that's El-P's crowning acheivement. Also a big fan of Mr. Lif, who's on Def Jux too.
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geeboz
 
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Reply Sat 15 Sep, 2007 06:12 pm
"word salad" -- a symptom of schizophrenia. If there is any meaning its very loose and esoteric to the author .
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contrex
 
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Reply Sun 16 Sep, 2007 02:04 am
Also known as "cabbage talk", a particulary apt description of rap lyrics IMHO.
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Gargamel
 
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Reply Sun 16 Sep, 2007 08:40 am
contrex wrote:
Also known as "cabbage talk", a particulary apt description of rap lyrics IMHO.


But by now, of course, no one on this thread has any reason to take your opinion on this subject seriously.
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