The Diplomats - Real N***z
I know what your thinking, what's with the racism?
The song has a deeper meaning, describing life to almost a creepy extent. You can almost see the entire song as a metaphor within itself. The Diplomats is a group that consists of Cam'Ron, Juelz Santanta, and Jim Jones.
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Cam'Ron talks about growing up and having to grind to survive, comparing the stock market (what is considered the process that keeps our economy going) to basically the drug world. How if you succeed that people will try to destroy everything you have, just so they can succeed, the process beginning all over again in either spectrum.
He goes on into his second bar by first saying, "I lick a shot so he know I meant it", explaining that industry emcees try to threaten each other with words to up their record sales. How certain emcees will start cliques and try make it seem like it was meaningful process, only to discover that it's only a continous process to even stay wealthy. He continues by saying how he would support and even become a co-defendent if his friend got in trouble, and how he notices self-centered and selfish people that would leave their friend hanging in this situation.
He finishes by saying that having material things is considered being happy, but you still find yourself being miserable at times. Reinforcing his earlier statement on how jealousy is the only true outcome. How you have to watch your back and hope that your friends have it aswell.
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Juelz Santana expresses how cops are just as dirty as any kind of gangsta, how he believes that everyone is basically a soldier, people try to think their living a carefree life, yet death awaits us all, due to the snakes (religious aspect) cobras (how were all being poisoned), vultures, rats, and roaches (all metaphors for darwinism "survival of the fittest") he finishes this first bar by saying "sleep now, the laughs over", protraying that people joke about death until they realize what it truly is.
In his second bar, he talks about how when being a gangsta, that there is no winners. How growing up in the streets, he always saw that everything led to violence. How people waste money on meaningless things, drive large gas-hogging and polution creating vehicles and act like it's nothing.
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Jim Jones has the final bar, stating that once people get a vehicle they practicly become it, another soul lost in the traffic. How when it comes down to people being addicted to anything, it's their brain that is making the decision, ignoring all of their body's impulses. They become stuck in a dream world.
He continues by saying that prostitutes are women with low self-esteem, eventually viewing the way their life ended up as nothing but a reason to complain, taking the abuse, and knowing that it drives them crazy. How drug dealers feel that they're not just trying to only feed themselves so they can survive, but inner-demons that make them want to continue to deal.
He finishes by saying that people don't think twice about wanting to see someone they dislike, dead. How he sees his mother filled with grief, the obvious result of living a full life, and it practicly eats him alive. How people look down on guys who spend a lot of time with their mother or have emotions as being feminine. How he smokes weed to cope, keeping him from having suicidal thoughts. He also agrees with Juelz Santana by saying...
My Dip Gang man, the peeps that'll ride
Over me the same peeps that have died
If it's me that catches you, you're fried...
In other words, expressing that being a gangsta is only a circle of death.
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I chose this song because it expresses in many ways how I feel about life. The title itself is metaphorical, expressing that what people consider "real" could be further from the truth, twisting "reality" to accustom their self-doubts and obvious flaws, judging someone as being "real" because they have money, and falling into a pit of stereotypes that usually begin with the word "real."
I also believe were all a slave to this system, and I know you truly find it hard to disagree.