The hip-hop lyrical mysteries/ambiguities solved thread

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In honor of the R.E.S.P.E.C.T. thread ("R-E-S-P-E-C-T take out T-C-P")

This is the thread where you post a hip-hop lyric that's daunted you for years, whether because of unfamiliar slang, a reference you don't understand, a mumbled lyric or just general ambiguity.

First person to roll their eyes and play Dismaster General when someone doesn't know their favorite piece of arcane slang ("OMG you didn't know what whoadie meant, lolz tard!") gets the cyber-gas face

1. De La Soul - "Me Myself And I"

"But that glory's been denied By concensing dookie eyes"

This is what ohhla.com lists the lyric as. I always thought it was "gookie eyes" like G Rap when he talks about having "chinky eyes." Is this the right lyric? What does "conscensing" mean? What are "dookie eyes"?

2. Beastie Boys - "Hold It Now, Hit It"

"Surgeon general cut professor - D.J. Thigs"

What the fuck does this mean?

― Whiney G. Weingarten (whineyg), Tuesday, 20 June 2006 14:11 (nineteen years ago)

"But that glory's been denied By concensing dookie eyes"

i remember Smash Hits printing it as 'gooky eyes'

― Konal Doddz (blueski), Tuesday, 20 June 2006 14:13 (nineteen years ago)

TS - Phife's last line on "Hot Sex" or Greg Nice's second line on "DWYCK"?

― 100% CHAMPS with a Yes! Attitude. (Austin, Still), Tuesday, 20 June 2006 14:20 (nineteen years ago)

"Surgeon general cut professor - D.J. Thigs"

What the fuck does this mean?

that he's a good dj?

― s1ocki (slutsky), Tuesday, 20 June 2006 14:22 (nineteen years ago)

For the longest time, when RZA says "tapes we dub" in "Windpipe" I thought he was saying "Tates Creek dub" and shouting out my high school. Oh, the disappointment.

― mummy wrapped in bacon (nickalicious), Tuesday, 20 June 2006 14:35 (nineteen years ago)

Surgeon general cut professor - D.J. Thigs"
What the fuck does this mean?
that he's a good dj?

-- s1ocki (slytus...), June 20th, 2006.

Yeah, that's what I thought - his cuts are precise! As in cuttin' & scratchin'.

My top baffler is from EMPD's "Strictly Business" - spent a lot of time rewinding and playbacking in the 80s and 90s trying to decipher this:

Like the E-Double - or the Pee-MD
He drives a Corvette, I drive a SEMAROSSAGEESEE

A what? ohla says "Samaurai Suzuki".

― Edward III (edward iii), Tuesday, 20 June 2006 14:45 (nineteen years ago)

I love ~~mushmouth~~ Erick Sermon.

― 100% CHAMPS with a Yes! Attitude. (Austin, Still), Tuesday, 20 June 2006 14:49 (nineteen years ago)

that he's a good dj?

I was more confused over the existence of a "DJ Thigs." Wasn't Dr. Dre their DJ at that point?

― Whiney G. Weingarten (whineyg), Tuesday, 20 June 2006 14:53 (nineteen years ago)

What's a Cuban Link?

― No Bones In Ice Cream (whineyg), Tuesday, 20 June 2006 14:56 (nineteen years ago)

A cigar, no?

― Edward III (edward iii), Tuesday, 20 June 2006 15:11 (nineteen years ago)

Okay, I'll correct myself. Cuban link appears to be a form of jewelry....

http://www.goldenmine.com/index.asp?PageAction=VIEWCATS&Category=290

Now, why do you think they call it jewelry?

― Edward III (edward iii), Tuesday, 20 June 2006 15:38 (nineteen years ago)

the last few lines of ghostface's verse on hells wind staff (off wu tang forever) are outrageously confusing,and thats even after i read what they were,with explanation,in the wu tang manual

― robin (robin), Tuesday, 20 June 2006 20:25 (nineteen years ago)

a Samurai Suzuki is a jeep, they were popular in the late 80s, but they were pretty cheesy cars. Its kind of a laugh to say that a Suzuki is more, uh, fly or whatever than a Corvette (the Corvette would def. be more expensive, for one thing)

― Shakey Mo Collier (Shakey Mo Collier), Tuesday, 20 June 2006 21:11 (nineteen years ago)

six years pass...

in ref to my first post:

Rap Genius says "conscensing dookie eyes" are "haters"

Still no explanation for the elusive DJ Thigs

― maybe i don't "do" the "harlem shake" —bennett braauer (Whiney G. Weingarten), Sunday, 3 March 2013 06:42 (thirteen years ago)

I just today got ”you can get the four nine three eleven” by method man

― in a chef-driven ambulance (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Sunday, 3 March 2013 18:02 (thirteen years ago)

the last few lines of ghostface's verse on hells wind staff (off wu tang forever) are outrageously confusing,and thats even after i read what they were,with explanation,in the wu tang manual
― robin (robin), Tuesday, June 20, 2006 4:25 PM Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

So yo break that nigga arm fast as a fuck
Tell Ra, Goldie left my beige jacket in his truck
To all you slow footed penguins, ducking from these
hot rocks that's flaming, chocolate for all you rap Damian's
Spraying cards espionage, dodgeball square hard
Strip bars, no bras, wet leotards
and a mink in, next album 'Blood On Chef's Apron'
Keep a Gambino PlayStation in your playpen
Discovery Channel, cats that book at Daniel
Coke blunts hot as a FUCK swatted bamboo
high school dropouts, baseheads get knocked the fuck out
on the regular for robbin a good nigga house
Rough cut raw doses, the unexplainable
Hot rock lava, gringo throw the flows iglasa

Could he be the world's least coherent man?
― Gatinha (rwillmsen), Saturday, March 22, 2003 2:58 PM Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

― Doctor Casino, Sunday, 3 March 2013 18:59 (thirteen years ago)

wu-tang can be like beat poetry, obv. my friend was saying that wu-tang's existence pretty much negates the necessity for Rap Genius because some Ghost shit is just unexplainable

― maybe i don't "do" the "harlem shake" —bennett braauer (Whiney G. Weingarten), Sunday, 3 March 2013 20:15 (thirteen years ago)

Yeah, agreed - it's more scattershot imagery, feel versus narrative or description as such.

― Doctor Casino, Sunday, 3 March 2013 20:45 (thirteen years ago)

isn't supreme clientele sorta that verse: the album

― BIG HOOS aka the steendriver, Saturday, 9 March 2013 21:20 (thirteen years ago)

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