Jay Z lines that went over your head

[Ill-Yaz]

"
38 revolve like the sun round the Earth"

Which song is this from?

 

[Ill-Yaz]

 

[blackslash]

This ain't grey sweat suits and white tube socks
This is black leather pants and a pair of Stance
Socks is my synopsis is clear
Got stripclubs feeling like Oxford, I swear

this line flew over my head until i read an explanation of it recently

 

[Cynic]

Still has me like

 

[b@squ1@t]

how long has the sun been revolving around the earth?

jay hov stays puttin me on to that new knowledge

 

[Feed-Me]

Which song is this from?

 

[FlyRy]

"gimme gotcha hair" or whatever the fukk he said on show me what you got

 

[FreshAIG]

I forgot about them bytches and that song lol

 

[Ill-Yaz]

This ain't grey sweat suits and white tube socks
This is black leather pants and a pair of Stance
Socks is my synopsis is clear
Got stripclubs feeling like Oxford, I swear

this line flew over my head until i read an explanation of it recently

Whats the explanation?

 

[LandryFieldsDad]

i thought on welcome to ny city jay said if you "pan left to right"
color me embarrased

 

[RedBull]

It's, "gimme got you here."

It's an old saying. When someone says "give me" instead of " may I have", the response was..."gimme got you here.", meaning that's how you were conceived, someone (moms or pops) said" gimme me some sex".

Basically use manners and ASK for something instead of saying give me or gimme.

 

[RedBull]

This ain't grey sweat suits and white tube socks
This is black leather pants and a pair of Stance
Socks is my synopsis is clear
Got stripclubs feeling like Oxford, I swear

this line flew over my head until i read an explanation of it recently

It's not "Stance" is a pair of Stans, as in Stan Smith Adidas.

 

[Drew Wonder]

Still has me like

“No Church in the Wild” is in many ways the perfect album opener. It not only establishes the album’s general theme but it also pretty much justifies everything else that comes after it. “What’s a God to a non-believer, who don’t believe in anything?” asks Frank Ocean in the haunting hook. Then Jay proceeds with what I believe to be one of the best verses of his career. “Tears on the mausoleum floor, blood stains the Colosseum doors, lies on the lips of a priest, Thanksgiving disguised as a feast.” Tainted beauty. Elaborate, magnificent, seemingly holy surfaces that distract from the depravity, violence, decay and corruption that lie underneath. Jay then references his car, attire and past as a drug dealer, almost as if saying that he’s a part of the same historical tradition he first referenced. But it’s not until the next few bars when it all comes together. “I’m wondering if a thug’s prayers reach, is Pius pious cause God loves pious? Socrates asked whose bias do ya’ll seek? All for Plato (play dough), screech.” Woah, a rapper referencing the Euthyphro dilemma? Jay is really operating on a higher level here.

I won’t go into too much detail about the dilemma since that would take up an entirely new post. But it basically poses this question; is what society considers to be morally good commanded by God because it is truly morally good, or is it morally good because it is commanded by God? It asks the question of whether or not there is a definitive moral standard or if morality is completely relative and subjective. Jay is addressing this from two different perspectives which lead to the same conclusion. He looks at the dilemma from the point of view of its creator, Socrates, who was referencing the gods of Greek mythology, who are known to be biased and flawed despite their power. Since society’s moral standards are coming from a biased and flawed source, those standards shouldn’t be completely trusted or followed, giving way to moral relativism.

Where Jay really gets bold is his second perspective, the Judeo-Christian God who is perfect and infallible. As Frank Ocean states, these moral standards are meaningless if you don’t even believe in it’s source. But Jay goes further with his Pius/pious wordplay. There’s the actual word pious which not only means religious but also a hypocritical display of virtue. Then there’s Pius, the name of numerous Popes throughout history who often were, you guessed it, religious while showing a hypocritical display of virtue. It ties back to Jay’s earlier references of tainted beauty as well as what Jay believes to be the hypocritical nature of those in power, whether a god or man, who decide what is and what isn’t morally right.

So what’s the point of all this? It’s an outright rejection of what society teaches to be moral in favor of a move towards individualism and living a life free of boundary. Since Jay has rejected this while giving his reason for doing so, he’s now free to do whatever he wants, including indulge in materialism and drug dealing which he references earlier in the verse, two things that society deems as immoral. To drive this point further he ends his verse by comparing Kanye to Jesus and himself to the holy ghost. Blasphemous? Only to those who actually believe in who he references.

 

[-DMP-]

"i caught smaller cases trying to get capital"

not a overly deep line, but one day i was listening to vol 3 (nymp) on repeat and i kinda went

listened to that song a thousand times and never caught that line

-DMP-

 

[blackslash]

It's not "Stance" is a pair of Stans, as in Stan Smith Adidas.

Nah its most likely Stance as he says "Socks" right after

Basically referring to Stance Socks

@Ill-Yaz jus click on the lyrics in my post an explanation will come up