Coward - Intellectual

A soundboy is an opposing artist who lacks when comparing sound. Keypads on computers have ‘Control-Alt-Delete’ buttons to hold down if you need to interrupt a function and wipe your screen. Notice the homophones on “deleting” and “delete ting”.

Making a reference to Keanu Reeves’s character Neo (the one) from the 1999 hit film The Matrix. Chip is proving his abilities are far beyond capable for everyone else much like Neo throughout the franchise (The man seizes shots).

Chip doesn’t need anyone to back him up unlike his latest opponents i.e. Tinie teamed with Bugzy on Peak or teaming up with Chip’s mates on Been the Man. Chip’s implying that Tinie can only increase his reputation in the streets by getting other men to feature with him.

The one man army seems to be Chip’s latest persona as he posted this on his instagram only 2 days before releasing this track with the caption reading:

Stand Alone & Pepper!!!

The photo is a cover photo for his infamous Pepper Riddim that officially brought this beef into the public eye.

Tinie is featured on Rumble along with Katy B, a pop artist. Chip is telling Tinie that he fell off the grime scene and can’t be saved.

Sonic boom is also a reference to a song by Manchester MC Bugzy Malone who Chip has also has beef with

Chip had been losing the beef until he came back with ‘Light Work’. Now that he’s got the upper hand over Tinie and Bugzy, he’s not going to give them room to manoeuvre into a winning position again. ‘Not Letting Go’ is the name of a song Tinie did with Jess Glynne, which Chip mentions in an attempt at taunting Tinie further, drawing a parallel between his firm hold on the advantageous position he’s currently in and the title of Tinie’s tune.

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Downing Street — Wikipedia

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Chip is referring to Tinie Tempah’s success and how he got invited to Downing street, saying he couldn’t care less about stuff like that

Tinie Tempah Poses Outside Number Ten Downing Street While Celebrating Men's Fashion Week — Capital

"From a Council Estate to the only No.10 that matters... Thank God and thank you all for your Positive thoughts and wishes! #londoncollections". Picture: Twitter

‘Blue pill’ is referring to Viagra, a drug which gives you a long lasting erection. Chip is going hard in a different sense…

Here, Chip compares a pen, with which he writes his lyrics, with a gun. The ‘off safety’ nature of his pen refers to the damage that can be caused to haters/enemies with his words and music, which is in keeping with a gun that is loaded and ready to fire.

Sidewinder and Eskimo Dance are both long-running rave events with a close connection to the grime scene. At such an event, a DJ would wheel-up a beat (i.e. rewind it to the beginning) if an MC was getting a good enough reaction from the crowd so as to give them an opportunity to perform for longer. According to Chip, regardless of the money he’s made with his numerous chart-topping singles, nothing Tinie’s written has been good enough to merit that kind of reaction.

Chip first used the phrase “wheel-up bar” in 96 Bars of Revenge to refer to his chant, originally from his Fire in the Booth session:

I know you man just might run out of bars, Chip can’t run out of bars

When he performed at Eskimo Dance in October 2015, not only did the bar receive the desired reaction, but Chip—encouraged by Jammer of Boy Better Know—made good on its promise.
https://www.youtube-nocookie.com/watch?v=YLft6JtS60U

These common labels can’t be placed on Chip and he doesn’t care if he “fits in” or sticks with a specific genre because he believes anything that he does will result in him being successful as his past has proven. These days Chip doesn’t mind if he strays from Tinie’s scene either, which is mainly Pop music.

Possibly referring to the fact that this man went HARD hitting bugzy with three in a week as well as 96 bars, a guy that’s been jail and is a known badman whereas he’s come at Tinie on a more laid back ting, who’s seen as a softer pop artist.

Also he was dissed a lot in the whole beef’s for doing pop songs for the female crowd, here he could be addressing how he can spit fire on any type of tracks.

Chip is claiming Tinie Tempah is a sissy since Chip sent for him, but he collaborated with Bugzy Malone and Stormzy on Peak . Stormzy being neutral but Bugzy Malone not.

Tinie’s 2011 autobiography, My Story So Far, features numerous nods to Chip which all portray him in a positive light. There’s a two-page spread called “Making New Friends”, which features a quote from Chip about how him and Tinie “go way back”.

It was therefore pretty surprising when Tinie said at 1Xtra Live:

Better than me? Yeah, go on then, say so
Cause you ain’t Dizzee or Will or Kano

Chip used a section from the book as the artwork for “Coward”, and in it Tinie says that Chip’s debut album I Am Chipmunk was an inspiration for him.

Chip cleverly uses the metaphor of cars on a road to describe his feelings towards people sending for him in their lyrics and music – i.e. by not swerving into Chip’s lane, you aren’t going to anger him and make him send for you as a consequence.

Chip refers back to Tinie’s bar on “Been the Man”:

Better than me? Yeah, go on then, say so
Cause you ain’t Dizzee or Will or Kano

While Chip wasn’t a pioneer of grime, he still has the approval of such legends, so maybe it’s not so unrealistic to say he’s better than Tinie.

https://twitter.com/WileyUpdates/status/652927719815122944

Tinie has been (controversially) known as the ‘UK Drake’ by certain American media outlets.
https://www.youtube-nocookie.com/watch?v=FCtgLDplfd4
Drake himself has often been referred to as this generation’s ‘Jigga’ AKA Jay-Z, who is considered one of, if not the best to ever do the hip-hop ting. Chip comes and deads that comparison, saying fame and success doesn’t mean anything when you have bars like these…

Chip’s history with Tinie goes back too far that it pushed him(Tinie) to rush a reply that he could have put more work into, hence the “dead chess moves”. Through some clever wordplay Chip is hinting that he wrote this with the same Lamy Swift pen that he used to write his 96 Bars of Revenge also dissing Tinie just a week before. With that one pen Chip has been able to write more strategically thought out bars to “check mate” Tinie out of this beef within 24 hours of Tinie’s Diss to him.

At 1Xtra Live, three days earlier, Tinie had dropped a new Chip diss entitled “Been the Man”. The song features a hook by Stormzy, who had previously featured on Tinie’s song “It’s Peak”, creating tensions with Chip.

Stormz later announced that “everything was kool” and there was no bad blood between them, so it’s weird to see him appearing again on a second Tinie track aimed at Chip.

This was Chip’s response:

https://twitter.com/OfficialChip/status/655735984156471296

More than anything, Chip thinks that this proves Tinie’s inability to produce a good solo diss track. He accuses Tinie of bringing in more underground, more talented MCs in order to make his points.

It’s true the man has the Grime scene in an awkward stage considering he had a lot of haters and now everyone seems to be on his side and talking about the power of his bars.

Rather than battle Chip 1v1, Tinie has brought other people to get involved in the beef alongside him. He has teamed up with Bugzy Malone, another rapper dissing Chip, and more importantly Stormzy, who was not involved, but Tinie used a hook from him in a track which he did not realise was going to contain disses at Chip.

Recently releasing his “Light Work Ep” and his “96 Bars of Revenge” to clear the hatred on his name. He’s empowered through his pen to keep running since he has had positve feedback after returning with his responses to Bugzy. As Chip had hoped and predicted, he had very positive reactions from the music video.