Mr. Lif Feat. Aesop Rock & EL-P - Take, Hold, Fire.
This is a really dope and lyrically complex song. The first verse with Mr. Lif portrays imperialistic colonial oppression that is brought to light repeatedly as the succeeding verses play on the dual theme of the song: from "Once again, the sun illuminates body at dawn" to the candle Aesop Rock mentions in relation to "realness" and El-P's multiple puns and double entendres relating to light/flame/fire.
"A young brother who hungers, lying there shiftless / A rich brother who hovers, hoarding his riches / Acts of the colonized [...] / And I know they're listening - So P.S. 'Fuck the Feds!' / [...]" - Mr. Lif
"No, it isn't folklore - Yes, it's morbid / If he hold heat, he'd probably hold grudges, not horses / We grew up in the Hold It Now Hit It / When Hold It Down meant it was better to Hold The Crown, not the Image / You bow to a gimmick, you bound to hold back the incentive / when you haul back to the village / fall back, crawl back to the killers / Who couldn't hold a candle to the actual definition of "Illest." - Aesop Rock
"Little man said I was fired / under artificial fire up in the sky / florescent tungsten hovered under cubicle design / interrupted just before final synaptic nerve could fire / [...] What a fiery piece of trash (bastard) / Why, I ought to fire the boomstick in your face and tell the tribe that it was (magic) / You tried to take my soul but now it's (Fire in the hole!) / And I'm fired up / Walking through the office firing automatics / You didn't start the fire - You simply sparked it / Next time you light a fire under my ass, better hope that you're flame retardant / Arson is in my bent heart - You're begging to see the (billow) / of the smoke of the fires of Odin - Enter the fire starter / See, every monotonous moment that I punched the clock / was equivalent to furnace fuel / in the form of a (fiery rock) / Welcome to trial by fire measured in Celsius / You can fire me from the job, but I promise I'm walking out the office the healthiest." - El-P
The UN (Pete Rock) - Nothin' Lesser.
"2 for timin', shout out / this one's for money rhymes / take it to 'em hardboiled, charbroiled or fraud / Holy Ghost, Peter - Plymouth rock landed on us / [...]"
Pete Rock & The UN - Nothin' Lesser (Madlib Remix).
Fonzworth Bentley Feat. Kanye West & Andre 3000 - Everybody.
Andre 3K: "Shorty you killin' em hard with them lady pants / simple elegance looking better when you dance / chest to the sun with your thoroughbred stance / you gallop to the rhythms of a native drum chant / your granny must be Navajo / [...]"
8Ball & MJG Feat. Outkast - Throw Your Hands Up.
"I'm still abound, un-believers stay from the hell around / I found negative niggas they only keep ya down, / transmitting from Native American burial grounds / I carry around, the weight of all worlds on my shoulderpads / um post tah blast Space Invaders up somebody's dad / [...]" - Andre 3000
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