Afro (2020)
It's dangerous to go alone.
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I swing that sti- like Wayne Gretzky
I keep a K on me like I'm Coach K - Mike Krzyzewski
Hope you set trippin
I got a set shot
Get your whole set shot
Quiet on the set, bitch
Shoot at a nigga - no bank shot
Check the game clock
Nigga, time is too precious
I shoot a nigga - no rebound
Shoot the whole team down
Rookies and veterans
She give me facetime - no textin
She give me face through the zipper
BOW - open face
Tunechi got shooters like Golden State
Shoot at a nigga - no driblle, no handle
Shoot at a nigga - no dribble, no travel
Shoot at a nigga - no Euro-step
Stop my dribble - I ain't move my pivot yet
Aim at his rim and I hit the net
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It's hard to tell at first what he's actually swinging. My first thought was he was saying "steel", but it didn't make sense because Wayne Gretzky doesn't really swing steel. He does swing a stick though! And a stick plays the same role as steel in this particular image. So did Wayne just mumble the word and not say the K because he's lazy? Au contraire! He deliberately kept the K for himself! If you can appreciate the gun metaphors and the sports references in these two lines, and the way he interconnects them on multiple levels, then you're ready for the rest of the song.
Almost every line that follows is a marriage of sports and gun violence. The word "set" serves as his first plaything, and he immediately takes it apart into 3 or 4 different meanings. Then he takes it up a notch and compares pretty much every shot that can be taken in basketball to one that can be taken in the streets.
I think the best thing to keep in mind is that he's almost never talking about just one concept, which is why he drops the basketball metaphor for a few phrases in favor of fellatio. A nice, wholesome break before the shooting starts for real.