Bronze darts on Mic Ammo (Remix)
seeing that this thread has close to 8,500 views and I haven't contributed anything in a while, now seems like a good time to dig into a few Bronze verses...
for the current task I'm choosing a tougher one, an energetic dart-launching session from an exclusive bangin track that appeared on the "Wisemen Arrived" promo mixtape--it's a remix of Royal Fam's Mic Ammo with a sick Bronze beat and Bronze verse added in...(unfortunately I don't have an mp3 link at the moment cuz I'm not on my main computer but I will add one on when I get the chance)..
this verse is mostly just ridiculously metaphorical descriptions of shit, and actually reminds me alot of U-God's style on Wu-Tang Forever..
as usual, I probably don't have all the lyrics right but i'll do my best..
Royal Fam-Mic Ammo (Bronze remix)
[Bronze]
It only takes one mic to send you to the steeple
guns from Detroit streets, axe (ask?) Desert Eagle
stayin with the theme of the song and it's chorus which keeps repeating "Fuck a 5 mic, fucka fucka 5 mic; it only takes 1 mic for you to take a loss" (this just occurred to me that this is a harder, grimey-er version of the Nas song One Mic) Bronze begins that it only takes one mic to lyrically murder you..
Fire lancer, blade dancer, bayonet swivel
a lancer was a soldier who fought in a cavalry back in the Middle Ages with his main weapon being a lance, a weapon similar to a spear...but Bronze is coming at u this way with fire instead..
"blade dancer" brings to mind some crazy Zorro type shit where he's so skilled with blades, swords, whatever that he can dance around and slice the shit outta u while making it look easily..."Bayonet swivel" conjures up the image of stabbing someone with a bayonet (the knife/dagger that was attached to the front of guns in the old days) and wiggling it around in their flesh to make sure they get cut up enough to die..
but also that whole sentence could just be the description of some elaborately imaginative slicing machine/weapon that's supposed to a be a metaphor for the approach Bronze is using in the verse..
punch you with the Louis fist, tongue-twister missile
Louis is most likely referring to Joe Louis, one of the greatest heavyweight boxers ever (who has an arena named after him in Detroit) and for point of emphasis, Ring Magazine recently had him #1 on a list of the 100 greatest punchers of all time...
so what I THINK is being said is that Bronze is using this crazy bayonet from the previous line and smashing with the force of a Joe Louis punch...but now if u put it all together, the previous line and this one including "tongue-twister missile" it's really like he's describing some crazy ridiculous comicbook-esque device that launches lyrical missiles at the listener's ear..
Shot off chips and shards, thoughts could strip cars
ricochet off Jimmy's guitars and God's stars
the impact of the blast from this lyrical missile/dart smashed debris all over the place...i don't exactly understand the placement of "thoughts could strip cars" right here even tho I do know what he means by it..
it's similar to a line he used recently "Nazareth, a mind that lift cars" which is just like a mental ability so strong that it can manipulate physical objects like bending a spoon or something, like a psychokinetic ability along the lines of Professor X and Jean Grey...
but the line doesn't really seem to fit here**...cuz he then he goes back to the debris that's being smashed and how it ricochets off things--"Jimmy's guitars" I assume is referring to Jimmy Page of Led Zeppelin..
this could be totally wrong but I see it as this missile smashes into your headphones and blasts debris that bounces off the Led Zeppelin poster a kid has in his room.....altho I'm not sure how many Wu fans listen to Led Zeppelin (I don't)
**unless he's just saying this whole thing as one big metaphor for what his mind can do---like the bayonet-swivel thing that's launching missiles is just a manifestation of his mind....which would be crazy
fell to the earth I caught 'em and threw 'em at you
Blowgun javelins travelin' through ya statue
the debris that smashed off from the impact he's pickin up and throwin it back at you...this seems like a fight scene from Hulk or something, just crazy shit..
"Blowgun javelins" i think is referring to the same fire-lancer, blade-dancer, bayonet swivel that's throwin lyical spears at you and they're travelin' thru your body, your "statue"...i love this wordplay
Circle the blocks like dust from the Trade Center
CRAZY fuckin imagery in this line
http://www.infowars.net/pictures/april08/220408dust.jpg
Words merge alloy, wreckin' ball, and Bronze chamber
bronze is actually an alloy, a hard metal---and he's mergin that metal with a wrecking ball and "Bronze chamber" is that crazy obstacle-course hallway set up from the movie 18 Bronzemen..
They can't remember the name of the calm stranger
Hit the frigid flesh of the night like sky scraper
my favorite line of the song...can be interpreted a couple of ways....
the first line is making it as if Bronze silently, calmly came in and did something (ex: murdered a bunch of ppl, robbed a bank or blasted u with a lyrical missile) and did it so smoothly and blended in so perfect that none of the witnesses remembered him...
the next line I interpret two ways: first is sorta obvious cuz he's already mentioned "lancer" and "javelins" so it's like he's throwing these huge spears that are sorta stabbing the night (poetically speaking) just like a skyscraper does...
the other way I like to look at it is that it's a metaphor using a skyscraper image (i picture the Empire State Building) as that of a needle LIKE THE NEEDLE ON A RECORD PLAYER and he applies that needle to "the frigid flesh of the night" and what plays out of that is his music...the music of the dark streets at night..
See Bronze face in ya dreams, ya alien beams
"alien beams" i interpret as your eyes get wide open and your staring and scared shit..
Laser-shot burn thru ya grandma's favorite pot
kind of a weird one here, I think it could mean like your eyes are still WIDE open and your scared frozen walking around with these "alien beams" for eyes and you burn a whole thru your grandmas favorite pot, which withstands the blue flame of the stove and is obviously pretty resistant to heat..
OR probably more likely it's laser beams coming from a sniper rifle? not totally sure...
Voyage thru tentacles, shaded wood cylindrical
mic ammo crack ya skull like an axe that's dull
"Voyage thru tentacles" just sounds to me like the Great Migration type of reference, just goin thru the many trials of life and it's sticky web of snares...
but the ending is perfect: "Shaded-wood cylindrical Mic Ammo" that's a vivid description of a bullet (makes me think of dum-dums or the rubber bullets they shoot at ppl in riots and shit) "crack ya skull like an axe that's dull" that is just some rugged grimey horror movie type shit..
these cylindrical bullets are smashing at your skull leaving you dumbfounded at the lyrical verse, the 'Mic Ammo' you have just been hit with..