Artist: Ja Rule
Album: Pain is Love
Title: Down Ass Bitch
feat. Charli Baltimore
(Ja Rule - talking)
Ja Rule, Chuck B-more
Every thug needs a lady
And every thug needs a down ass bitch, huh, feel me
Every thug needs a lady
Baby I'm convinced, you my down ass bitch
(Chorus - Ja Rule)
Baby say yeah, (baby say yeah)
If you'd lie for me, like you lovin me
Baby say yeah, (baby say yeah)
If you'd die for me, like you cry for me
Baby say yeah, (baby say yeah)
If you'd kill for me, like you comfort me
Baby say yeah, (baby say yeah)
Girl I'm convinced, you're my down ass bitch
(Ja Rule)
Uh
I know that you're lovin me, 'cause you thug with me, who bust slugs for me?
My baby
Who gon' kill for you, like I comfort you, who else but the Rule?
You feel me
Girl when we connect the dots we hit the spot
Twin Benz's, you ride hard, I ride drop
And to make it better, baby got the nina' Beretta tucked low
And I'm two cars back with the four-four
And it freaks you out, on your momma's couch, that's what us thugs be 'bout
You know me
And when I pray for love, baby pray for us, who celebrates the thugs?
My lady
Got me seekin capital game when I spit sixteen
Whether bars or sixteens in the doors of cars
A star is born
In the hood, made a name live on, R-U-L-E, ladies, feel me
(Chorus)
(Charli Baltimore)
Now I'm show you blood or love, there's no belly you bounce from
Blow sellin, dough amounts to no tellin
There'll be no tellin, snitches get it back
Those gats to your backs for my boy
What part of the game is that, huh?
Niggas and they feelings 'cause I handle your dealings, keep your name in tact
My fame's in tact so cops won't know what it's hittin for
Now hoes wanna know what you shittin for
'Cause I'm your bitch, the Bonnie to your Clyde
It's mental, mash your enemies, we out in the rental
I'm your bitch, niggas run up on ya, shift ya lungs, who's your organ donor?
What they know about, extreme meausures I'm a ride with you
And my baby three-eighty at my side
And we lock the town, I'm as down as any thug
My love, they gotta take us in blood, what
(Chorus)
(Ja Rule)
You could die from love, at any given time I could die from slugs
But that's what this life is capable of
The death and the life of a bitch and a thug, is what I'm scared of
But God up in Heaven who ain't afraid to, tuck the toast in the Escalade
say I stink. Well, I tell you, you all of you stink to me.” This goes
You ate my cheetos didn’t you! You ate my cheetos didn’t you! toast your fingers they orange! You ate my cheetos didn’t you! They orange toast, they orange. Iiow punch yu in da moouf, yu gonna bleed on your sewf and ouders. I’m comin after you.
Swedenburg, Ted. "Homies in The ‘Hood: Rap’s Commodification of Insubordination." Rpt. in That’s the Joint!: The Hip-Hop Studies Reader. Ed. Murray Forman and Mark Anthony Neal. New York, NY: Routledge, 2004. 579-591. Print.
The primary scary feature of the story is the concept that doing something as innocent as stopping a car can cause death. Death is something that most people fear, or wish not to encounter until they feel that they have lived their lives to the fullest.
Fear is natural and does not need to be reinforced. Simply, fear is inevitable. Similarly, death is natural and inevitable, while also greatly feared. In “The Last Stop,” Brian expresses his dismay by saying, “I feared rejection or worse, an invitation to come and stay” (Cable 70). Brian fears the unknown that awaits him beyond the doors of the mortuary. Fear of the unknown is also exemplified in “I’m Not Leaving Until I Eat This Thing,” by John T. Edge. John fears trying the pig lips that he has never had before. He says, “I stifle a gag that rolls from the back of my throat, swallow hard, and pray the urge to vomit passes” (Edge 77). This quote represents the disgust and uncertainty John feels as he eats the pig lip. Comparably, in “The Long Good-Bye: Mother’s Day in Federal Prison.” by Amanda Coyne, uncertainty is expressed by her nephew, Toby, asking, “Is my Mommy a bad guy?” (Coyne 93). This quote represents the unease felt by Toby who does not yet comprehend why his mother is in prison. By asking this question he searches for comfort from the fear of uncertainty. Brian, John, and Toby all search for comfort from their fear, despite how different they all may
“Don’t fucking tell me to calm down. I had this nigga up in my house, sitting on my couch, eating my muthafucking food. Y’all had me looking fucking stupid. Nah, fuck that! Where this nigga live?”
...as pulled from the wreckage of his car, so that he might live to see his grandchildren play.
...e thing is true, inside you is a hard ass nigga you gotta let come through” (Beaty). Don’t deny yourself of being who you truly are. Take Mr. Beaty’s advice and journey to the nigga in you.
Jeffries, M. P. (2011). Thug Life: Race, Gender, and the Meaning of Hip-hop. Chicago: University of Chicago Press.
Throughout American history there has always been some form of verbal acrobatics or jousting involving rhymes within the Afro-American community. Signifying, testifying, shining of the Titanic, the Dozens, school yard rhymes, prison ?jail house? rhymes and double Dutch jump rope rhymes, are some of the names and ways that various forms of raps have manifested. Modern day rap music finds its immediate roots in the toasting and dub talk over elements of reggae music (George, 1998)....
...nd void, the soul is a material thing that ceases to exist when the body dies. So I don't fear death since I will just simply cease to exist.
These are the kinds of music that often use violent lyrics and violent beats, depicting urban street gangs. Typical themes and ideas deal with street life including pimping, and hustling as well as killing and shooting (Malek 108). “I’m bout to bust some some shots off. I’m ‘bout to dust some cops off” (Ice-T). The lyrics of Ice-T’s Cop Killer evoked a loud outcry about whether ideas about killing police officers should be expressed publicly. It is not only the violent ideas expressed within the lyrics, but the context of which they are expressed. Rap is criticized because rappers are known to “sing of guns with almost lascivious glee”. They talk about their “pieces” or “glocks”, “ninas” or pistols as the “object of their affections”
The criminal cop killing hip-hop filling a minimal swap to cop millions of Pac listeners.
Richardson, Jeanita W., Kim A. Scott. “Rap Music and Its Violent Progeny: America’s Culture of Violence in Context.” The Journal of Negro Education 71.3 (2002): 175 – 192.
Sexy Bitch also knew as Sexy Chick in a clean version. The lyric saying means things that she is a very kinky girl, the kind you don’t take home to mother. She will never let your spirits down, once you get her off the street, owe girl.