Told Y'all (2009)
Find it
And I aint that old, I'm just 26
All in your mouth like I'm a dentist, bitch
Fuck you and your interest, bitch
We on some shoot the Entrance shit
Better find the Exit, boy
My Nina is so sexy, boy
And she feelin desperate, boy
Don't make her molest you, boy
Pressure pressure, boy
What would make you test the boy?
I'm great with no effort, boy
Your face will get severed, boy
I'm breakin your level, boy
I'm taking your medal, boy
Weezy F Baby and the F is for Forever, BOY
I want to talk about four things, and I'll try and keep it brief so it fits.
I only found out today that he's saying Entrance, and that's why you have to find the Exit. Mind blown. I'm also starting to realize why it's so easy to miss these things, and it has to do with how Wayne switches up his rhyme scheme and flow but doesn't necessarily change what he's talking about. You definitely need to be paying attention to get the most out of it.
I always enjoy Wayne's take on the Nina metaphor. It's fairly common tool across the genre, but I think he makes the best use of it. I think the most impressive thing is that even though you know he's talking about a gun, he's not saying a single gun-related thing, and is really just describing a girl named Nina.
One thing I'm still struggling to articulate are the technicalities of what I'm going to call rhyme capping. Putting "boy" at the end of every line isn't exactly necessary because the previous syllables are already setting up a rhyme scheme, but adding this one repeating syllable somehow makes it cleaner without making it sound repetitive. I'll keep meditating on this.