Lil Romeo (2022)

Wrap em up

Lil Romeo (2022)
Enough to build a wall
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Lil Romeo
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Last night I had a fight with my sleep
I guess the coke
Got in my pores
From touchin all the bricks
So I just wrapped em up and wrote Tyson on each

I got em bitin ears and bitin they teeth

I'm talkin bout that good snow
Temp low
Don't be surprised if I sneeze

Excuse me, God bless me, thank you


Looks like that cold weather's finally coming in ❄

The flow here is too outrageous for me to try to format it in my usual way, but I would just ask you to try and follow how he built the rhyme scheme. In this case the main rhymes are sleep/each/teeth/sneeze, and it looks like he's mastered the game to such a degree that he can separate them however he pleases. He even builds an extra set of internal rhymes with coke/pores/snow/low and makes it feel like he can say whatever he wants and it will automatically rhyme because he's Wayne.

The technical part wasn't what caught my ear though. The most impressive thing to me is the depth of imagery he uses to allude to one thing by talking about another. In this case he's talking about the quality of his product by equating it to the quality of Mike Tyson as a fighter. Not only does it have Wayne himself fighting his sleep, but it has the customer tweaking so hard that their teeth start itching (which is another tie-in to Tyson if you know your history). And then if you're not following that line of imagery, he throws in some winter metaphors to expand your understanding.

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