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[Verse 1: Black Thought]
Knocked up 9 months ago
And what she finna have she don't know
She want neo-soul, this hip-hop is old
She don't want no rock-n-roll
She want platinum or ice or gold
She want a whole lotta somethin' to fold
If you a obstacle she just drop ya cold
Cause one monkey don't stop the show
Little Mary is bad
In these streets she done ran
E'er since when the heat began
I told the girl look here
Calm down I'ma hold your hand
To enable you to peep the plan
Cause you is quick to learn
And we can make money to burn
If you allow me the latest game
I don't ask for much, but enough room to spread my wings
And the world finna know my name
[Verse 2: Cody Chesnutt]
I don't ask, for much these days
And I don't bitch, and whine, if I don't get my way
I only want to fertilize another behind my lover's back
I sit and watch it grow standin' where I'm at
Fertilize another behind my lover's back
And I'm keepin' my secrets mine
I push my seed in her push for life
Its gonna work because I'm pushin' it right
If Mary drops my baby girl tonight
I would name her Rock-N-Roll
[Verse 3: Black Thought]
Cadillac need space to roam
Where we headin' for she don't know
We in the city where the pros shake rattle and roll
And I'm a gaddang rollin' stone
I don't beg I can hold my own
I don't break I can hold the chrome
And this weighin' a ton and I'm a son of a gun
My code name is The Only One and Black Thought is bad
These streets he done ran ever since when the game began
I never played the fool
Matter fact I be keepin' it cool
Since money been changing hands
And I'm left to shine, but the legacy that I leave behind be the seed
That'll keep the flame
I don't ask for much but enough room to spread these wings
And the world finna know my name
[Verse 4: Cody Chesnutt]
I don't beg
For no rich man
And I don't scream, and kick, when his shit don't fall in my hands, man
Cause I know how to still
Fertilize another against my lover's will
I lick the opposition 'cause she don't take no pill
No dear
You'll be keeping my legend alive
I push my seed in her push for life
Its gonna work because I'm pushin' it right
If Mary drops my baby girl tonight
I would name her Rock-N-Roll
Oh break it down, break it down, break down beat
I push my seed somewhere deep in her chest
I push it naked 'cause I've takin' my test
Deliverin' Mary it don't matter the sex
I'm gon' name it rock and roll
I push my seed in my push for life
It's gonna work because I'm pushin' it right
If Mary drop my baby girl, tonight
I would name her Rock-N-Roll
I would name her Rock-N-Roll
I would name her Rock-N-Roll yeah
I would name it Rock-N-Roll
Knocked up 9 months ago
And what she finna have she don't know
She want neo-soul, this hip-hop is old
She don't want no rock-n-roll
She want platinum or ice or gold
She want a whole lotta somethin' to fold
If you a obstacle she just drop ya cold
Cause one monkey don't stop the show
Little Mary is bad
In these streets she done ran
E'er since when the heat began
I told the girl look here
Calm down I'ma hold your hand
To enable you to peep the plan
Cause you is quick to learn
And we can make money to burn
If you allow me the latest game
I don't ask for much, but enough room to spread my wings
And the world finna know my name
[Verse 2: Cody Chesnutt]
I don't ask, for much these days
And I don't bitch, and whine, if I don't get my way
I only want to fertilize another behind my lover's back
I sit and watch it grow standin' where I'm at
Fertilize another behind my lover's back
And I'm keepin' my secrets mine
I push my seed in her push for life
Its gonna work because I'm pushin' it right
If Mary drops my baby girl tonight
I would name her Rock-N-Roll
[Verse 3: Black Thought]
Cadillac need space to roam
Where we headin' for she don't know
We in the city where the pros shake rattle and roll
And I'm a gaddang rollin' stone
I don't beg I can hold my own
I don't break I can hold the chrome
And this weighin' a ton and I'm a son of a gun
My code name is The Only One and Black Thought is bad
These streets he done ran ever since when the game began
I never played the fool
Matter fact I be keepin' it cool
Since money been changing hands
And I'm left to shine, but the legacy that I leave behind be the seed
That'll keep the flame
I don't ask for much but enough room to spread these wings
And the world finna know my name
[Verse 4: Cody Chesnutt]
I don't beg
For no rich man
And I don't scream, and kick, when his shit don't fall in my hands, man
Cause I know how to still
Fertilize another against my lover's will
I lick the opposition 'cause she don't take no pill
No dear
You'll be keeping my legend alive
I push my seed in her push for life
Its gonna work because I'm pushin' it right
If Mary drops my baby girl tonight
I would name her Rock-N-Roll
Oh break it down, break it down, break down beat
I push my seed somewhere deep in her chest
I push it naked 'cause I've takin' my test
Deliverin' Mary it don't matter the sex
I'm gon' name it rock and roll
I push my seed in my push for life
It's gonna work because I'm pushin' it right
If Mary drop my baby girl, tonight
I would name her Rock-N-Roll
I would name her Rock-N-Roll
I would name her Rock-N-Roll yeah
I would name it Rock-N-Roll
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They are sneaking an out of genre song in under the music industry radar. This song. And saying in the song that's what they are doing, with sex/plant/religious metaphors. Clever irony.
"Mary", his lover, is the music industry - all about money, controlling artistic freedom, and popularity. Black Thought, in the "knocked up" opening is talking about the industry releasing this song without really knowing what it's about or being able to control it. He talks about the genres/styles the industry wants, based on money. He is going to show the industry what's next. Them working together, getting a little artistic freedom is enough, and getting popular.
2nd Rap is a Black Thought more typical rap lyrics self-promotion verse.
Cody is talking about not whining or begging about the industry control and money. And he is sneaking one in on them. All the seed and baby metaphors are about starting this new style, and watching it grow, without the industry knowing it's happening, against their will. And it will work because they have style and secret cleverness. They'll be remembered for it. And they'll name it Rock'N'Roll.
..Man just wants to plant his seed! And the point for this is that his current lover is on the pill and will not have a child. Cody wants a child.
thats what i think, but my question is like God 2.0 is his own response to Rising down, which song is the Seed 2.0 a response to?
What I love about the video, too, is that attitude being juxtaposed against that tiny neglected little girl running around the big raggedy house all by herself. No idea where Mary is, but the singer should be keeping an eye on that little girl before she drowns herself in that Bette Davis bathtub. His walls need painting, too. When she comes into the practice room and smiles at the band, it's pretty cold the way they all turn their backs on her.
The rap lyrics are distracting to me, although I can't help dancing. The core song is powerful in itself without the added stuff about the music industry. I'd think that few listeners who don't work in the industry would understand what all that complaining's about. So the video is like listening to two different songs, but I still like it.
Also the acoustic version. Love the annunciation. Angrier, too, and the class struggle theme seems fairly clear. The rich man, the people in power, take birth control pills and send the women off to work outside the home. More of our black and brown people are inclined to have children. The narrator can relax because he sees the inevitable. All he wants is to help "steal" societal power by sheer demographics. Behind his lover's back.
Black Thought authored all the words he speaks and no more, his words add force to the overarching force of the song as they suggest various takes on the possible meaning offered by the core. Cody Chestnut's voice is the main substance of the song (which I have referred to as the core). I don't wish to seem arrogant, if anything Black Thought is much more talented, its just that 'the core' was plainly fully constructed before he devised his parts.
Although I am fairly certain about what thoughts I am trying to convey, I keep subjects vague and place poetical force in conceptual relations, because I like the organic wealth of meaning this form embodies. Black Thought's take is in many ways far more beautiful than my own original thoughts for my words, I wont talk much about what his words suggest, except I did not anticipate an interpretation in which 'the lover' was a genre of music, as I had conceived of that aspect being quite literal.
Now, this was about the first song I had ever written, I was quite young (15), very interested in politics and philosophy and theology, I was quite radical, and I think I really overreached, there is too much scattered substance.
The interpretation:
'I don't ask for much, and I don't whine if I don't get my way'- This denotes the peace an individual has made with society, how one compromises and settles, the resounding point I'm making in mentioning this is that we all do it to some extent, and I want people to question the impact this has on life.
'fertilize another behind my lover's back'- Is perhaps the most profound example of how one could break social conventions in furthering perhaps our highest real interests; this is an example of how simply trying to live a constructed meaning for one's life would lead one to secrecy.
'I'm keeping my secrets mine'- I find secrecy an interesting topic, if our society is going to necessitate it then it must be allowed, i.e. not illegal. Why in our personal lives, perhaps the most important sphere of human interaction, do we permit fraud (lying or secrecy)? Well, the answer is given above: so many constructed life meanings don't mesh with society. The subtle implication is that we require some kind of revolution.
"And I don't scream, and kick, when his shit don't fall in my hands, man
'cause I know how to steal"- This is subtle prod (in hindsight much too subtle for Americans) toward class consciousness.
'I lick the opposition cause she don't take no pill'- I don't know if its just a difference in word usage, but "lick" means defeat in this context, not to literally lick. This is referring to the culture of death in the west, the social forces that oppose the production of human life (economic forces i.e. full time employment woman are required to engage in).
"I push my seed somewhere deep in her chest
I push it naked 'cause I've takin my test"- This is really the weakest part of the song, it means very little, chest rhymes with test... I needed a third stanza (not including the chorus/hook thing). Test is meant to be connotative of how sex and reproduction in this guys constructed meaning is his 'test in life', but you see the format of the song is that I have to give a literal line, forcing my to write "I've" rather than the intended "I'm", I thought it would be okay, because people do relate things like HIV tests to sex (they do a lot more where I'm from (South Africa), anyway you see, tests are done prior to sex, but here I wanted the sex to be seen as the test itself, so not great product, but as I said, this was pretty much the first song I had written.
'Rock'nRoll"- is a metaphor for life and vibrancy.
"dropped"- is metaphorical for been given birth to, and with poetical licence, when something living is dropped its motion could resemble rocking and rolling...
PS: The lyrics should read "And I don't scream, and kick, when his shit don't fall in my hands, man
Cause I know how to steal"
black thought's 1st verse is the typical artist trying 2 convince industry idiots that his work is mainstream-worthy...that the people will get it, but it, receive it if you "push" like cody is saying in his verses...
cody's verses
the industry honchos= rich man=my lover
the other=his music, his art
mary-music
she's not on the pill::she's free from control...unlike the rich man industry honchos...
all about artistic freedom and being truthfulll 2 one's craft...even if u have 2 have an affair...smiles...