Raekwon - Ice Cream. WTF Is These N*ggas Talking About?

[EyeofAsaru]

Oh you really think that's head scratching huh? That's light work! Wu has their own slang lexicon

We need a cotdamn Rosetta stone to decipher the supreme clientele album

"I swing like Candy cane(i get this line),i laid my balls on ice the branches in my weed be the veins!"

"Crispy humming bird,Threw up a stone richie"

"Mrs dash,sprinkle her with a icicle eyelash"

LOL...eye love wu tang but some of that shit was the dust blunts talking

 

[Ear2DaSt]

The more you listen to certain rappers they better you get and understanding the unique slang

 

[sully]

Oh you really think that's head scratching huh? That's light work! Wu has their own slang lexicon

We need a cotdamn Rosetta stone to decipher the supreme clientele album

"I swing like Candy cane(i get this line),i laid my balls on ice the branches in my weed be the veins!"

"Crispy humming bird,Threw up a stone richie"

"Mrs dash,sprinkle her with a icicle eyelash"

LOL...eye love wu tang but some of that shit was the dust blunts talking

Don't forget the fantastic Tha Game...Ghost spit verse of the year on that shit

MC Ultra high-brolic bank roll alcohol vulture

Garlic balls dice the shield of ocre

Tally ho pitty-pat backgammon pro

Pink salmon five spring rolls know me, you love my intro

Half a face wig sewed together like Manhattan Chase

Lookin like statue of praise, check behind the drapes

Castor Troy layin for Travolta mic gun pump

Layin on the floor Clark's bleedin watermelon chunks

Hold up... sprinkle the hash, Tony Chapstick

Snatch RZA last piece of fish right off the glass dish

Butter roll beats bagel tracks wavey hair decks

Lay it down straw hat style, Butterball crown

Time life investments, when broke I wrote the old testament

Crashed domes now perform excellence

Words with the President, brunch with Yeltsin

Gorbachev under Meth's nuts, he out in Belgium

Six and a half monkeys, twelve nazis

Four disappear, three eight two one flash to thin air

God's replica no wheel drive motionless mind cresica

Tilt the hat like Esther

 

[gns]

As for the first first bolded line, shell = frame or body and wicked at the time was slang for good or excellent. However, he's making another play on words because wicked also means evil, and Nimrod was a Babylonian king from the Bible and other texts that rebelled against God. In plain English, he's just saying her body is really sexy. A fresh water scrod is a kinda fish. So applying that to the previous line, he's basically saying that her body lured him in and now he's caught i.e. she has him sprung.

The next line actually a bit harder to decipher if you don't listen to a lot of Wu. Vine = Devine one of the dudes in the management side of the Wu group at the time. I think he's related to Rza or something. C Allah Rule is 5% code or something like that, but it just means car as shown by the bolded letters. He was telling the chick that her style had him turned on like a car. Again that one was difficult if you don't listen to the Wu a lot, but if you do, you'd get it because make weird quasi-acronyms out of words all the time for some reason. Another common one they use is C Cypher Punk. The C is just the letter like the example from this song. A cypher in this case is a circle or the letter O and you take the P from Punk, and you get cop.

As for the last one, Shirley Temple Curls are a hairstyle based on Shirley Temple when she was a young actress and Billie Jean's was a local hair salon.

This nigga just made all this shit up

 

[StillFaggyAF]

A lot of 5% stuff

 

[SheerExcellence]

U-GOD entire verse on triumph doesn't make sense at all.

I always said if a person were to learn English through Wu-tang, they'd prolly fail hard.

Not sure if you joking but the detroit lions kicker did just that, i believe porzingis on the Knicks did as well...
http://www.azcentral.com/story/spor...08/kicker-kikalicious-havard-rugland/2633389/

There's a lot of young listeners trying to decipher the Wu-Tang's slang and a few more trying to figure out what exactly Ghostface Killah is saying in multiple sections of Supreme Clientele, but Lions kicker Havard Rugland (a.k.a Kickaliscious) was just a Norwegian learning English. He did just that by listening to the group.

Rugland apparently told guard Rob Sims this in what sounds like a totally nonchalant manner. Like having Ghostface Killah as your English language teacher was an everyday deal:

The first day we’re hanging out in the hot tub, right? I’m just talking to him and I was like, ‘You speak English really well. Man, where’d you learn English?’

He was like, ‘Mostly from movies and listening to Wu-Tang.’ It blew my mind.

 

[dalyricalbandit]

Man just like Ghost the god some shit can't be explained

 

[Cabana_Da_Don]

Nimrod was the biggest hunter/warrior in the bible from Africa.he came from Kush and created numerous cities in the Iraq region where Abraham came from.He also made Babylon.

 

[The Lonious Monk]

U-GOD entire verse on triumph doesn't make sense at all.

I always said if a person were to learn English through Wu-tang, they'd prolly fail hard.

Not sure if you joking but the detroit lions kicker did just that, i believe porzingis on the Knicks did as well...
http://www.azcentral.com/story/spor...08/kicker-kikalicious-havard-rugland/2633389/

There's a lot of young listeners trying to decipher the Wu-Tang's slang and a few more trying to figure out what exactly Ghostface Killah is saying in multiple sections of Supreme Clientele, but Lions kicker Havard Rugland (a.k.a Kickaliscious) was just a Norwegian learning English. He did just that by listening to the group.

Rugland apparently told guard Rob Sims this in what sounds like a totally nonchalant manner. Like having Ghostface Killah as your English language teacher was an everyday deal:

The first day we’re hanging out in the hot tub, right? I’m just talking to him and I was like, ‘You speak English really well. Man, where’d you learn English?’

He was like, ‘Mostly from movies and listening to Wu-Tang.’ It blew my mind.

Ok, now that I find hard to believe. lol

 

[Idiopathic Joker]

So...regional references mixed in with ancient biblical ones? Ok. How did I miss that?

 

[5 Grand]

C Allah Rule means Car

 

[The Lonious Monk]

So...regional references mixed in with ancient biblical ones? Ok. How did I miss that?

Wu lyrics aren't that hard to understand conceptually. It's just the references they use are all over the place. I kinda like that about them though. Even to this day, it's nothing for me to hear a song I've been listening to for damn near 20 years and just now get something that was said because I just learned about whatever reference they used.

 

[gns]

Crispy humming bird,Threw up a stone richie"

This is obviously drugs right here

Talking about whipping some soft into rocks

Yes eye got one God

Word to yall earths

 

[Busta Carmichael]

U-GOD entire verse on triumph doesn't make sense at all.

I always said if a person were to learn English through Wu-tang, they'd prolly fail hard.

Not sure if you joking but the detroit lions kicker did just that, i believe porzingis on the Knicks did as well...
http://www.azcentral.com/story/spor...08/kicker-kikalicious-havard-rugland/2633389/

There's a lot of young listeners trying to decipher the Wu-Tang's slang and a few more trying to figure out what exactly Ghostface Killah is saying in multiple sections of Supreme Clientele, but Lions kicker Havard Rugland (a.k.a Kickaliscious) was just a Norwegian learning English. He did just that by listening to the group.

Rugland apparently told guard Rob Sims this in what sounds like a totally nonchalant manner. Like having Ghostface Killah as your English language teacher was an everyday deal:

The first day we’re hanging out in the hot tub, right? I’m just talking to him and I was like, ‘You speak English really well. Man, where’d you learn English?’

He was like, ‘Mostly from movies and listening to Wu-Tang.’ It blew my mind.

(So Havad, where did you learn English?)

" Shorty had the tennis shoes, jump suit on/

GoldenEye like James Bond, 200 deegres on the magical wand"

(What?? How are you enjoying your stay in the U.S.?)

"Real talk son, shorty had the pack on the corner, 86 Mafia style, ran the block like transformers"

(Ait bruh, do you)

 

[king hassan]

This some shit my mother would always say "niggas don't like to think" and this just made me think of that

 

[Busta Carmichael]

Let's be honest fam. Nas was talking that 5% stuff too but it was understandable.

I love Wu nh, but they don't be saying nothing half of the time. It just sounds dope and they throw a bunch of words together to make them rhyme.

 

[Stew]

Never really cared to understand most of it, shit was dope tho.

 

[Busta Carmichael]

And by Wu I mean Ghost and Rae.... Specifically RAE.

It's time we addressed this. Dudes just be pointing at different words in dictionary that has nothing to do with each other and making them rhyme.

 

[a_list]

So...regional references mixed in with ancient biblical ones? Ok. How did I miss that?

Dont forget....You missed these, too...

Scrod or schrod (/ˈskrɒd/) is any of various whitefish, such as young cod or haddock, that are prepared and eaten as food; often the preparation involves the whitefish being split and boned before cooking.

Shirley Temple Curls...Hair stlye

Shell..meaning body

 

[soul rattler]

On "Bulletproof Diaries", Raekwon said

"Blow your head off like lunch meat "

And

"Yo Game, I got this Superman love for you over here"