[Throwback] Ghostface Killah, Raekwon & Cappadonna - Daytona 500

[IronFist]

 

[Menelik II]

 

[pointproven214]

Say peace to cats who rock mack knowledge
Knowledgists, street astrologists
Light up the mic God, knowledge this
Fly joints that carried your points
Corolla Motorola holder
Play it God, he pack over the shoulder
Chrome tanks, player like Yanks, check the franchise
Front on my guys, my enterprise splash many lives
Rapel on fakes like reflectors
He had sugar in his ear in his last crack career
We can can him, manhandle him, if you wanna
run in his crib-o, get ditto, skate like a limo
And jet to the flyest estate, relate take a break
Break down an eighth and then wait drop it like Drake
Thugs they be booing and screwing, we canoeing
Claim they doin the same shyt we doin, fukk your unit
It's the same style, RZA trainable, jump the turnstyle
On the alley tried to challenge God for the new vials
Especially that, aluminum bat in the act
Relax, lay back, sell a grenade a day, it pays black
The Mac-10 flex white cats like Windex
Index finger be sore, bustin these fly scripts
The Wally kid count crazily grands with our plans
Layin with my bytches and my mans in Lex Lands
We losin em, jet to the stash and now Jerusalem
Abusin em, rockin his jewels like we usin em
Low pro star, seven thick waves rock Polar
Roll with the older God, build with the Son and the Star

raekwon slaughter ghostface on this song

 

[criminology]

This is one of those songs I clearly remember when I first heard it. I skipped school to buy the album () and was blazed in a friends car just sitting outside school listening when the beat dropped and I knew I'd remember the day and still do.

 

[djfilthyrich]

I remember it took many listens to decipher what Rae was sayin in that verse. classic

 

[Cortez1]

I remember it took many listens to decipher what Rae was sayin in that verse. classic

so what did the repeated listens reveal to you? this is my fav raekwon verse of all time but it's also slang at its most undecipherable. the broad strokes, i get it, but

 

[Cortez1]

but the little details? i'm willing to bet Rae himself doesn't have the first clue what half that shyt meant. rhymin for the sake of flyness.

 

[The Intergalactic Koala]

This video proves that we need more anime dubs in hip hop videos. Imagine they used the audio to Backseat Freestyle to Space Dandy.

 

[Mr. Negative]

Mind was blowed first time I saw this video.

Back in the day when it wasn't no magazines or internet to keep me up to par with what was coming out and when...

it just seemed like Wu was just dropping hot shyt left and right outta nowhere. Over and over and over and over and over......

but the little details? i'm willing to bet Rae himself doesn't have the first clue what half that shyt meant. rhymin for the sake of flyness.

it's all understandable. No rapgenius needed.

 

[The Intergalactic Koala]

"I slap box with Jesus, lick shots at Joesph"

 

[Cortez1]

please educate my dumb ass then:

"Fly joints that carried your points"
"Play it God, he pack over the shoulder"
"Chrome tanks"
"Rapel on fakes like reflectors"
"He had sugar in his ear in his last crack career"
"we canoeing"

no one talks like this, not even Rae in real life.

 

[Playaz Eyez]

This song and album

 

[djfilthyrich]

but the little details? i'm willing to bet Rae himself doesn't have the first clue what half that shyt meant. rhymin for the sake of flyness.

yeah I couldn't figure out the lil details. I think only those Wu guys would know exactly what he's talkin about in some of those references. They had their own slang