Joey Bada$$ - All-Amerikkkan Bada$$ THENEEDLEDROP ALBUM REVIEW - HipHop

The setup to the verse, when your on the upswing you should take advantage of it and buy ice (jewelly, aka live it up), but you should also be ready for when things start to come down (get an icicle), this and the lofi vocal effect are all to serve to let you know that Jay is reminiscing about his comeup on the rest of the verse.

Audemars before all of y'alls More scene setting that hes talking in the past

Wristwatch got a Russian face like an oligarch, uh Just a nice bar about how expensive his watch is nothing to see here

12 o'clock, boy, silly nice, huh

12 o clock boys are a group of baltimore dirt bikers, 12 o clock is when your bike is straight vertical, pretty silly nice right?

Willie in traffic, I'm Philly nice, uh

Wille is a 90's throwback for bigshot, a homophone for wheelie calling back 12o clock from previous line, and a will smith shoutout, which leads to the philly nice, which is also a callback to when he said big willie on Can't knock the hustle

E.T. on the handles, uh

Not gonna lie Im pretty sure hes just saying he has bike skills but im not actually sure.

Handlebars like a Xanax

Triple Entendre: Handlebar (bike themes)

Handlebars like xanak (drug life shoutout)

Handle bars like a xanax (He can rap smooth on the beat)

Shammgod with the AND1 moves

Hes basically just saying that he was ballin, sticking with the comeup theme Shammgod played 97, 98, right when Hovs career started poppin

Throw that shit 'round your neck

After making all those baller moves he got a chain to stunt when things are going well (callback to start)

Right quick, broke boys get fixed

He got him and his people paid, fixed their situation

Right quick, Nigel Sylvester(nights invested) with these bike flips

Nigel Sylvester is a pro biker, but he slurs it so it can also sound like nights invested, talking more about the work he put in (the and1 moves)

Uh, that's a full cab and a back flip

2 BMX moves, staying with the bike theme but also when put with the line before its saying he metaphorically flipped his situation

Uh, sidebar

So that's it, Hov handed in a really nice lyrically dense verse stuntin about the comeup and a lot of yall completely missed what he was talking about. That flow stays on the piano too with the type of syllabic pauses and dancing around the keys that no one is better than Hov at doing.

submitted by /u/dPuck
[link] [comments]

Kendrick album release bumped forward to Thursday night

Posted: 11 Apr 2017 01:09 AM PDT

submitted by /u/hellyep
[link] [comments]

Daily Discussion Thread 04/10/2017

Posted: 10 Apr 2017 12:38 PM PDT

Welcome to the /r/hiphopheads daily discussion thread!

This thread is for:

objective questions with right/wrong answers (e.g. "Does anyone know what is happening with MIXTAPE?", "What is the sample in SONG?")
general hip-hop discussion
meta posts...e.g. ideas for the sub

Thread Guidelines

Do not create a separate self post for these types of discussions outside of this thread - if you do, your post will be removed.
Please be helpful and friendly.
If a question has been asked many times before, provide a link to a thread that contains the answer.

Other ways to interact

There are a number of other ways to interact with other members of HHH: