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

[king hassan]

I'm ready for 100 flags, nosigns and wacks but here goes;

I remember during the East/West beef Death Row was doing their thing and the East Coast was doing their thing.

At the time me and my friends thought that the West Coast rappers were too simple. I mean the sonic quality was good and they rapped on beat, but lyrically it wasn't advanced. They rapped like Rakim and LL Cool J in 1987.

The cats on the East Coast (Wutang, Nas, Gang Starr, Biggie, DITC, etc.) were using heavy slang and thats what we liked. We liked rappers that used heavy slang and deciphering what they were saying. We felt that the West Coast rappers that get so much praise (Pac, Kurrupt, Too $hort, Ice Cube, Snoop, etc.) were kinda boring. They didn't really use slang, they just used regular words to say whatever they were saying.

I'm ready for a bunch of negative reactions but thats how we felt.

Where were your boys when your booty got taken?

Bhwaaaaaahahahaha, this brought pure tears to my eyes.

 

[EyeofAsaru]

Y'all have to revisit that Raekwon wu tang vs shaolin album..That album low key stands next to purple tape as one of his best albums

 

[Idiopathic Joker]

Supreme Clientele own the thread

 

[aneed123]

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

How sway?

Cause I like the way they rap and their production. I don't need a song to teach me about something to be entertained. Dope beat, dope rhymes is all I need. Yall can have the "its gotta be relatable, have to be talkin about something for it to be dope", shit don't work that way for me.

Sounds like the same expliantion those make when trapor mumbe rap is bashed by those who say they cant understand it No?

 

[5 Grand]

I'm ready for 100 flags, nosigns and wacks but here goes;

I remember during the East/West beef Death Row was doing their thing and the East Coast was doing their thing.

At the time me and my friends thought that the West Coast rappers were too simple. I mean the sonic quality was good and they rapped on beat, but lyrically it wasn't advanced. They rapped like Rakim and LL Cool J in 1987.

The cats on the East Coast (Wutang, Nas, Gang Starr, Biggie, DITC, etc.) were using heavy slang and thats what we liked. We liked rappers that used heavy slang and deciphering what they were saying. We felt that the West Coast rappers that get so much praise (Pac, Kurrupt, Too $hort, Ice Cube, Snoop, etc.) were kinda boring. They didn't really use slang, they just used regular words to say whatever they were saying.

I'm ready for a bunch of negative reactions but thats how we felt.

Where were your boys when your booty got taken?

It doesn't matter - I castrated them

 

[Stew]

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

How sway?

Cause I like the way they rap and their production. I don't need a song to teach me about something to be entertained. Dope beat, dope rhymes is all I need. Yall can have the "its gotta be relatable, have to be talkin about something for it to be dope", shit don't work that way for me.

Sounds like the same expliantion those make when trapor mumbe rap is bashed by those who say they cant understand it No?

People prove they're hypocrites everyday on this site, u just gotta catch'em in the act, prove it and laugh all the way to the IC bank.

 

[Idiopathic Joker]

I'm ready for 100 flags, nosigns and wacks but here goes;

I remember during the East/West beef Death Row was doing their thing and the East Coast was doing their thing.

At the time me and my friends thought that the West Coast rappers were too simple. I mean the sonic quality was good and they rapped on beat, but lyrically it wasn't advanced. They rapped like Rakim and LL Cool J in 1987.

The cats on the East Coast (Wutang, Nas, Gang Starr, Biggie, DITC, etc.) were using heavy slang and thats what we liked. We liked rappers that used heavy slang and deciphering what they were saying. We felt that the West Coast rappers that get so much praise (Pac, Kurrupt, Too $hort, Ice Cube, Snoop, etc.) were kinda boring. They didn't really use slang, they just used regular words to say whatever they were saying.

I'm ready for a bunch of negative reactions but thats how we felt.

Where were your boys when your booty got taken?

It doesn't matter - I castrated them

oh. ok

 

[jono]

I asked niggas to break down Camp Lo a few years ago. Nobody has the keys to that box

 

[Nah Son]

I'm ready for 100 flags, nosigns and wacks but here goes;

I remember during the East/West beef Death Row was doing their thing and the East Coast was doing their thing.

At the time me and my friends thought that the West Coast rappers were too simple. I mean the sonic quality was good and they rapped on beat, but lyrically it wasn't advanced. They rapped like Rakim and LL Cool J in 1987.

The cats on the East Coast (Wutang, Nas, Gang Starr, Biggie, DITC, etc.) were using heavy slang and thats what we liked. We liked rappers that used heavy slang and deciphering what they were saying. We felt that the West Coast rappers that get so much praise (Pac, Kurrupt, Too $hort, Ice Cube, Snoop, etc.) were kinda boring. They didn't really use slang, they just used regular words to say whatever they were saying.

I'm ready for a bunch of negative reactions but thats how we felt.

Where were your boys when your booty got taken?

It doesn't matter - I castrated them

So you castrated your boys? What did they have to do with it? The plot thickens

 

[Stew]

 

[P. Town]

Reminds me of the create a Raekwon verse thread

 

[emaculate]

"A jungle junkie, vigilante tantrum, a death kiss

Cat walk squeeze another anthem, hold it for ransom/

Tranquilize with anaesthesias, my ochersta, graceful music ballerinas"

U-God

love that verse

The bold to end of his verse prolly my fav part about his verse

Rap genius got us covered llz

(https://genius.com/Wu-tang-clan-triumph-lyrics)

This song happens to have one of Rae's more understanble verses I think.

Even if you don't understand haha How can you not fuck wit it

While my pen blow lines ferocious


Mediterranean, see y'all, the number one draft pick


Tear down the beat God, then delegate the God to see God


The swift chancellor, flex the white gold tarantula


Track truck diesel, play the weed God substantiala


Max mostly, undivided then slide in sickening
Guaranteed made 'em jump like Rod Strickland

 

[emaculate]

But niggas love E-40 slang tho

Lol E-40 makes sense tho. He just change the words at the end.

Rae says whole sentences that makes zero sense with no explanation.

LOL it makes sense my brother, it's just what he is saying a lot of people don't know that particular slang

Yeah, another thing Rae does is this stream of consciousness type rap, where he'll take a topic and just throw a bunch of stuff about that topic out seemingly at random. So if you take a step back and look at the whole verse as a whole with the topic in mind, it makes sense. However, if you go line by line, it doesn't seem coherent. I have to say I hate when he does that shit. Rae is better when he's storytelling. He's on point then.

The closet type of conscious stream flows I've heard as of recently with that in mind was Willie the Kid on Masterpiece Theater with Alc. That project stays in constant rotation these days.

 

[Qiv_Owan]

Rae's BET Hiphop Awards cypher was one of the best ones ever spit

 

[Fosheezy]

Rae be on some

Swade seats

Trips to The Paladium ace-deep

Titanium

Lamborghini sunshades with jade A-Ks

We shoot niggas for days

Word God

I'm in the 88 batmobile lightin up haze

Straight exotics

I'm wilding while this Kardashian-type mami riding me

Burner on side, ready to blow for papi

No nonsense

My guap serious

Barretta case Plush interior

Ridiculous, kid

 

[The Lonious Monk]

I ain't gonna lie. My favorite Rae verse is Black Jesus, and most of that verse seems like shit thrown together, but part that's decipherable is dope, especially with the way he spit it.

Aye Yo, this shit be off the knock it rock

whatever cock block it

Cat get blown, who own this

street corner,

foreigner hesitate to rock a Hummer

Navy Seal top runner, rhyme this summer

For real, marinatin' nigga's skatin'

debatin' waitin' style flowinly relatin'

Fine line switch it on ya like venetian blinds

the mission is mine, fabulous king I devine

Titanium Hydro collado, Yo dunn dunn polly dis conjunction

Son what, slang doctor, Medicaid the kids pay it

say if these niggas in affect dunn, stay rap related

Cassette rhymer, 5-G co-signer, line for liner

Poet designer, sharp like liners

Mic of the year award, fly gear award

them niggas over there be analyzing with one sword

Get bent, pay the rent, plus still we invent

nuff shit to get your whole team

crazily sent

Now all I need is a half gallon of weed

Proceed, to bust this mic dick and make three seeds

then Max out like two Ack's inside the parking lot

son Bark a lot and get his team hit in that dark a lot

what now blow, clickin' like a calico

gold maxmillion, one love keep it real yo[/quote

 

[Idiopathic Joker]

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.

Olympic torch flaming, we burn so sweet

The thrill of victory, the agony of defeat

We crush slow, flaming deluxe slow for

Judgment Day cometh, conquer, it's war

Allow us to escape Hell globe spinning bomb

Pocket full of shells out the sky, Golden Arms

Tunes spit the shitty Mortal Kombat sound

The fake false step make the blood stain the ground

A jungle junkie, vigilante tantrum

A death kiss catwalk, squeeze another anthem

Hold it for ransom, tranquilized with anaesthesias

My orchestra, graceful, music ballerinas

My music Sicily, rich California smell

An axe kill adventure, paint a picture well

I sing a song from Sing-Sing, sipping on ginseng

Righteous wax chaperon, rotating ring kings

this nigga was high on wet

 

[G.Avant]

C Allah Rule means Car

Ain't it more work to spit some of these damn code words than the actual

Shit. I mean I understand the code for cops and shit like that, but car tho? Why not just say car nigga lol

 

[EyeofAsaru]

Eye love raekwons verses

He be saying the illest shit in the most cryptic way

"I'll wash ya face with the mac"

"Mike Tyson disciples"

"Bitch nigga try to rhymes to this,mics is getting fired"

Like who the fuck thinks like that? Lol

 

[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.

Olympic torch flaming, we burn so sweet

The thrill of victory, the agony of defeat

We crush slow, flaming deluxe slow for

Judgment Day cometh, conquer, it's war

Allow us to escape Hell globe spinning bomb

Pocket full of shells out the sky, Golden Arms

Tunes spit the shitty Mortal Kombat sound

The fake false step make the blood stain the ground

A jungle junkie, vigilante tantrum

A death kiss catwalk, squeeze another anthem

Hold it for ransom, tranquilized with anaesthesias

My orchestra, graceful, music ballerinas

My music Sicily, rich California smell

An axe kill adventure, paint a picture well

I sing a song from Sing-Sing, sipping on ginseng

Righteous wax chaperon, rotating ring kings

this nigga was high on wet

Shit was ridiculous rofl