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

[Colin$mackabi$h]

Genius.com

/thread

 

[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.

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

why y'all acting like you never heard of abstract art?

 

[pachá12]

I understood the Adina Howard line perfectly fine

 

[Splackavelli]

Your whole shell baby's wicked like Nimrod

Umm shout out the x men cartoon

Nimrod was always a bitch of a sentinel to kill

A lot of 5% stuff

ha ha that's funny but nah he's talking about the biblical nimrod the king of Babylon.

 

[Busta Carmichael]

Genius.com

/thread

So white hipsters breaking down "5 %" language that Wu can't even seem to understand themselves?

Sounds legit

 

[Splackavelli]

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

out of all of the wu ghost and rae are the most cryptic.

 

[Trillfate]

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

Lmao! This was hella fun to read

 

[The Lonious Monk]

Genius.com

/thread

So white hipsters breaking down "5 %" language that Wu can't even seem to understand themselves?

Sounds legit

Laugh if you want, but white people are obsessive when it comes to breaking things down in Hip Hop.

This chick did a Masters level thesis on the use of Grey Poupon in rap lyrics.
=465s

 

[THE_R_]

Wolverine Carnation milk, Wu denim jeans.........explain this.

ALWAYS ASSUMED THEY WERE CARNATION MILK COLORED WOLVERINE BOOTS

 

[Lefty_]

Wolverine Carnation milk, Wu denim jeans.........explain this.

ALWAYS ASSUMED THEY WERE CARNATION MILK COLORED WOLVERINE BOOTS

Well those are dreadful.

 

[JonnyRoccIT]

Lol this thread is hilarious

 

[THE_R_]

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

FOR EMPHASIS

[Verse 4: U-God]

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

 

[5 Grand]

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

FOR EMPHASIS

[Verse 4: U-God]

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

Yeah but the way he said it sounded so smooth.

 

[Busta Carmichael]

His verse is dope af and he rides the beat.

But if you read that shit on paper it sounds retarded

 

[Go figure]

Love the way these mfs rap, always have. U listen 100 times eventually itll click wtf they were talkin about...piece together the story 10 listens at a time lol...this one is a lil easier

Hollow Bones


[Raekwon]

High potency thai, smoke a bag of black

And feel the vibe, want to be wise 

We, form on a rising corner mean five

Laws in disguise, throw on your slides

Young niggas racist, smokers is basic

We seen the eyes, laying up playing the cut

What, stay in the truck, something told me duck

Folding me up, my shoulders struck

Out of luck, fuck the potters up

Fell on a daze like a Golotta snuff

Niggas tried to body me up

I'm in the lobby bleeding

Niggas in the witness office probably eating

And sprinting and beefing, when they heard the shots

Called the precinct and seen barber nieces beasting

Niggas shot Shalar features and shocked her was a Elisis, 

Bent the spinal cordless creatures

I'm gagging and flagging a cab down

Guess who in the Benz wagon, dragging my sound down

Macking it was Dale Breedy the greedy

Caniving ass snake genie

Cop with a bikini will murder charge and benini

I'm feeling wheezy and the drain from the cheeba

Grieving ain't even looking decent

Seeing police niggas reaching

That splash against my hollow bones

That rocks my...

[Inspectah Deck]

Fleeing the crime scene speeding

Beefing leaving behind cream

Not even peeping that I was leaking

Won't see the precinct just got a recent case beaten

Still jakes are creeping

Don't blow ya spot, stay the weekend

Keep the ruger peeling who's squealing

Few knew the dealings

Keep the steel concealed in

Cause we got no time for feelings

Eyes on the building guards are on the corners illing

Million dollar block villain plotting on a killing

Feel like, a superhero talking like a true Deniro

They boost his ego path and broke down

Reduced to zero

Cops feel we poors hoping I'll reveal my source, source

That splash against my hollow bones

That rocks my soul

Oh oh, oh oh

[Ghostface]

Outside the check cashing, flashing

Dipped in fashion

Five cherry-faced fagots tried to cash in

They keep laughing, Ghost you get ya face bashed in

Who gave you these privileges son? why you maxing?

And we..

Feigning to take those move slow

I'm hearing how you broke Rob's nose

And I heard you keep a banging hammer

Golden brass diamonds embroideries

That was stolen that you haven't reported g

Make very little noise, my shit hiccup

Don't make this big stick up bigger

Me and the boys I thought for a second then chose

Rather than froze

Had the gem star on my hand

Yo what the fuck yo! that's when I ripped Timothy

Snatch and dip john like imbaggable

Had the mini axe tool, faxed him

Shots rang off, bing, boggle-de-dumb

That splash against my hollow bones

 

[Go figure]

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.

West coast was just way more straight forward, raw emotion. Tupac and biggie who are their coast's respective goats for example. Pac was real passionate and relatable, Biggie was real flashy and had word play. Its representative of the regions they came up through. Doesnt make one better than the other its just opinion but u can be regarded as the goat using either style. Both serve its purpose and that balance is necessary imo.

 

[JonnyRoccIT]

Love the way these mfs rap, always have. U listen 100 times eventually itll click wtf they were talkin about...piece together the story 10 listens at a time lol...this one is a lil easier

Hollow Bones


[Raekwon]

High potency top, smoke a bag of black

And feel the vibe, want to be wise 

We, form on a rising corner mean five

Laws in disguise, throw on your slides

Young niggas racist, smokers is basic

We seen the eyes, laying up playing the cut

What, stay in the truck, something told me duck

Folding me up, my shoulders struck

Out of luck, fuck the potters up

Fell on a daze like a Golotta snuff

Niggas tried to body me up

I'm in the lobby bleeding

Niggas in the witness office probably eating

And sprinting and beefing, when they heard the shots

Called the precinct and seen barber nieces beasting

Niggas shot Shalar features and shocked her was a Elisis, 

Bent the spinal cordless creatures

I'm gagging and flagging a cab down

Guess who in the Benz wagon, dragging my sound down

Macking it was Dale Breedy the greedy

Caniving ass snake genie

Cop with a bikini will murder charge and benini

I'm feeling wheezy and the drain from the cheeba

Grieving ain't even looking decent

Seeing police niggas reaching

That splash against my hollow bones

That rocks my...

[Inspectah Deck]

Fleeing the crime scene speeding

Beefing leaving behind cream

Not even peeping that I was leaking

Won't see the precinct just got a recent case beaten

Still jakes are creeping

Don't blow ya spot, stay the weekend

Keep the ruger peeling who's squealing

Few knew the dealings

Keep the steel concealed in

Cause we got no time for feelings

Eyes on the building guards are on the corners illing

Million dollar block villain plotting on a killing

Feel like, a superhero talking like a true Deniro

They boost his ego path and broke down

Reduced to zero

Cops feel we poors hoping I'll reveal my source, source

That splash against my hollow bones

That rocks my soul

Oh oh, oh oh

[Ghostface]

Outside the check cashing, flashing

Dipped in fashion

Five cherry-faced fagots tried to cash in

They keep laughing, Ghost you get ya face bashed in

Who gave you these privileges son? why you maxing?

And we..

Feigning to take those move slow

I'm hearing how you broke Rob's nose

And I heard you keep a banging hammer

Golden brass diamonds embroideries

That was stolen that you haven't reported g

Make very little noise, my shit hiccup

Don't make this big stick up bigger

Me and the boys I thought for a second then chose

Rather than froze

Had the Jim star on my hand

Yo what the fuck yo! that's when I ripped Timothy

Snatch and dip john like imbaggable

Had the mini axe tool, faxed him

Shots rang off, bing, boggle-de-dumb

That splash against my hollow bones

WTF DOES ANY OF THAT MEAN.?!?

 

[Go figure]

Love the way these mfs rap, always have. U listen 100 times eventually itll click wtf they were talkin about...piece together the story 10 listens at a time lol...this one is a lil easier

Hollow Bones


[Raekwon]

High potency top, smoke a bag of black

And feel the vibe, want to be wise 

We, form on a rising corner mean five

Laws in disguise, throw on your slides

Young niggas racist, smokers is basic

We seen the eyes, laying up playing the cut

What, stay in the truck, something told me duck

Folding me up, my shoulders struck

Out of luck, fuck the potters up

Fell on a daze like a Golotta snuff

Niggas tried to body me up

I'm in the lobby bleeding

Niggas in the witness office probably eating

And sprinting and beefing, when they heard the shots

Called the precinct and seen barber nieces beasting

Niggas shot Shalar features and shocked her was a Elisis, 

Bent the spinal cordless creatures

I'm gagging and flagging a cab down

Guess who in the Benz wagon, dragging my sound down

Macking it was Dale Breedy the greedy

Caniving ass snake genie

Cop with a bikini will murder charge and benini

I'm feeling wheezy and the drain from the cheeba

Grieving ain't even looking decent

Seeing police niggas reaching

That splash against my hollow bones

That rocks my...

[Inspectah Deck]

Fleeing the crime scene speeding

Beefing leaving behind cream

Not even peeping that I was leaking

Won't see the precinct just got a recent case beaten

Still jakes are creeping

Don't blow ya spot, stay the weekend

Keep the ruger peeling who's squealing

Few knew the dealings

Keep the steel concealed in

Cause we got no time for feelings

Eyes on the building guards are on the corners illing

Million dollar block villain plotting on a killing

Feel like, a superhero talking like a true Deniro

They boost his ego path and broke down

Reduced to zero

Cops feel we poors hoping I'll reveal my source, source

That splash against my hollow bones

That rocks my soul

Oh oh, oh oh

[Ghostface]

Outside the check cashing, flashing

Dipped in fashion

Five cherry-faced fagots tried to cash in

They keep laughing, Ghost you get ya face bashed in

Who gave you these privileges son? why you maxing?

And we..

Feigning to take those move slow

I'm hearing how you broke Rob's nose

And I heard you keep a banging hammer

Golden brass diamonds embroideries

That was stolen that you haven't reported g

Make very little noise, my shit hiccup

Don't make this big stick up bigger

Me and the boys I thought for a second then chose

Rather than froze

Had the Jim star on my hand

Yo what the fuck yo! that's when I ripped Timothy

Snatch and dip john like imbaggable

Had the mini axe tool, faxed him

Shots rang off, bing, boggle-de-dumb

That splash against my hollow bones

WTF DOES ANY OF THAT MEAN.?!?

Some words in the lyrics i think might wrong so it can throw u off but this shit is open to interpretation

Ghostface verse is basically bout him robbin somebody. First half is laying the scene and talkin about the dude hes gonna rob "flashin, dipped in fashion" = flashy, well dressed n paid,

"Im hearin how u broke Robs nose and i hear u keep a banging hammer" dude aint a punk n busts his gun

"Golden brass diamond embroideries that was stolen that u never reported" hes holdin some valuables either on him or he just know dude worth robbin

"Make very little noise, my shit hiccup, dont make this big stick up bigger" wants the stick up smooth n quiet as possible cuz a gunshot gonna draw attention (my shit hiccup) the sooner they rob him n leave the better rather than make a scene

"I thought for a second then chose, rather than froze, had the gem star on my hand" (decided to go with his blade *gemstar* n cut dude up

"thats when i ripped timothy...snatch and dip" cut him n robbed him now time to dip

"Had the mini axe tool (gun), faxed him, shots rang off, bing, boggle de dum" (gunshots/they shot him anyway)

Thats my interpretation of it

 

[mc317]

Fuck you Teagues

 

[JonnyRoccIT]

Love the way these mfs rap, always have. U listen 100 times eventually itll click wtf they were talkin about...piece together the story 10 listens at a time lol...this one is a lil easier

Hollow Bones


[Raekwon]

High potency top, smoke a bag of black

And feel the vibe, want to be wise 

We, form on a rising corner mean five

Laws in disguise, throw on your slides

Young niggas racist, smokers is basic

We seen the eyes, laying up playing the cut

What, stay in the truck, something told me duck

Folding me up, my shoulders struck

Out of luck, fuck the potters up

Fell on a daze like a Golotta snuff

Niggas tried to body me up

I'm in the lobby bleeding

Niggas in the witness office probably eating

And sprinting and beefing, when they heard the shots

Called the precinct and seen barber nieces beasting

Niggas shot Shalar features and shocked her was a Elisis, 

Bent the spinal cordless creatures

I'm gagging and flagging a cab down

Guess who in the Benz wagon, dragging my sound down

Macking it was Dale Breedy the greedy

Caniving ass snake genie

Cop with a bikini will murder charge and benini

I'm feeling wheezy and the drain from the cheeba

Grieving ain't even looking decent

Seeing police niggas reaching

That splash against my hollow bones

That rocks my...

[Inspectah Deck]

Fleeing the crime scene speeding

Beefing leaving behind cream

Not even peeping that I was leaking

Won't see the precinct just got a recent case beaten

Still jakes are creeping

Don't blow ya spot, stay the weekend

Keep the ruger peeling who's squealing

Few knew the dealings

Keep the steel concealed in

Cause we got no time for feelings

Eyes on the building guards are on the corners illing

Million dollar block villain plotting on a killing

Feel like, a superhero talking like a true Deniro

They boost his ego path and broke down

Reduced to zero

Cops feel we poors hoping I'll reveal my source, source

That splash against my hollow bones

That rocks my soul

Oh oh, oh oh

[Ghostface]

Outside the check cashing, flashing

Dipped in fashion

Five cherry-faced fagots tried to cash in

They keep laughing, Ghost you get ya face bashed in

Who gave you these privileges son? why you maxing?

And we..

Feigning to take those move slow

I'm hearing how you broke Rob's nose

And I heard you keep a banging hammer

Golden brass diamonds embroideries

That was stolen that you haven't reported g

Make very little noise, my shit hiccup

Don't make this big stick up bigger

Me and the boys I thought for a second then chose

Rather than froze

Had the Jim star on my hand

Yo what the fuck yo! that's when I ripped Timothy

Snatch and dip john like imbaggable

Had the mini axe tool, faxed him

Shots rang off, bing, boggle-de-dumb

That splash against my hollow bones

WTF DOES ANY OF THAT MEAN.?!?

Some words in the lyrics i think might wrong so it can throw u off but this shit is open to interpretation

Ghostface verse is basically bout him robbin somebody. First half is laying the scene and talkin about the dude hes gonna rob "flashin, dipped in fashion" = flashy, well dressed n paid,

"Im hearin how u broke Robs nose and i hear u keep a banging hammer" dude aint a punk n busts his gun

"Golden brass diamond embroideries that was stolen that u never reported" hes holdin some valuables either on him or he just know dude worth robbin

"Make very little noise, my shit hiccup, dont make this big stick up bigger" wants the stick up smooth n quiet as possible cuz a gunshot gonna draw attention (my shit hiccup) the sooner they rob him n leave the better rather than make a scene

"I thought for a second then chose, rather than froze, had the gem star on my hand" (decided to go with his blade *gemstar* n cut dude up

"thats when i ripped timothy...snatch and dip" cut him n robbed him now time to dip

"Had the mini axe tool (gun), faxed him, shots rang off, bing, boggle de dum" (gunshots/they shot him anyway)

Thats my interpretation of it

I would never want this nigga to describe an Incident in real life