Lyrical Tricks - Intellectual

He’s been through his fair-share of unpleasant events just like everybody else. His thoughts are sickening, but he’s still pulling himself together, hence the “no way I’m not well” because there’s nothing that can stop him.

Mayham doesn’t care if he doesn’t get famous, cause he’s still gonna be ‘hot’, as in great.

He is referring to Mike Tyson when he bit Evander Holyfield, hence the “Take a bite out of this rap game”

He’s also referring Tyson in the “fight me”, as Tyson is a fighter.

He’s Persian, and some Persian people are light skinned, so he’s referring to people saying he’s white.

He hustles all day and all night, it’s shocking to see how many nights he’s awake.

A “bison” in urban terms is a person who’s big. Sheep are referred to as followers. I’m saying I devour both.

He wants you to stay away because he can be a bad person

Mayham has you trapped like a snare if he gets a hold of you.

The original rhyme was “in this track, I gotta be mean and I gotta have rhymes/ so thinking I’ll back down, you must be out of your mind!“ but coming to the ending of recording, I forgot my line because I was ironically high, so that was a freestyle.

Referring to the previous line, the sight’s pleasant, so if you step up to him, it won’t end well, hence the sarcastic “ain’t that nice to see”

He’s too offensive to be running a city. There’s no way he’s not going to swear, so he drops the F-bomb to elevate his thought and prove his point. “they dared me to make a fucking track where I can’t swear”

Everybody watches Mayham but never do anything because they’re afraid.

He wants no time to waste and cut right into the rap.

He’s making fun of the fact that people think being high for popularity is cool and that it makes them look like they fit in, or get noticed.

Mayham says that messing with MT is not a good sight to see.

Referring to the previous line, his mind his racing, and using a metaphor and imagery to describe the speed.

“shoelace untied” means not having what you need to complete the race and it’s more challenging, but Mayham’s still going to do it because his mind is racing on the thought that he’s still going to push and run past everyone else, even if his shoelaces are untied, he’s not even going to stop for a second just to tie his lace.

He’s religious, it’s like a ray of light shines upon him when he’s practicing religion

Mayham says that MT’s rhymes are crazy (flavorless means dry) and they’re NOT flavourless.

Everybody continously speaks gibberish, non-stop with nothing important to say hence the “y'all yapping limitless”

Nothing you hear about him is true except for what’s proven. He’s saying that he won’t say anything if you approach him asking about the rumor if it’s not been proven.

He’s poking jokes at the fact that there’s only him talking, since it’s an introduction.

To be in “beast mode” means to be working hard and going crazy. He’s putting the imagery that he turns into a beast when he does poetry (referring to the previous line)

Using a metaphor saying that you’re trying to explode on the mic, but your fire won’t spark.

Me and eMpTy were sitting down and we were discussing the song ideas. It was originally for an open mic. We’re sitting there and this guy just starts freestyling at the top of his head and I’m like “what the fuck, let me write that down real quick.” He’s an insane poet and just hearing his verse – it has hidden meanings that are super easy to miss, but when you catch them… jaw-dropping stuff.

Mayham picks up the rhyme where MT left off

Yapping limitless,

Rap and wickedness.

He says that he’s ridiculous (insane, unbelievable) when it comes to rap and being wicked (evil)

Mayham’s using wordplay. These mans stare (pronounced same as stair) but never stepping up (a stair has steps, he’s using wordplay and urban phrases to deliver this line beautifully.)

He’s still going to be mean in this track, but he has to be clean (not under the influence)

You can’t deal with him, he’s offensive (earlier mentioned that his motive is making fun of people) and you can’t tolerate it.

MT is known for his insanely deep poetry. When he’s not writing lyrics for rap, he’s writing poems.

Going against Mayham is suicide, the way you fight is not strong enough.

He thinks introductions are not necessary and no one listens to them.

Mayham’s lyrics are sometimes offensive and he explains here that he’s always sticking it (sticking it means sticking up the middle finger) through a forty hour stimulus (his motive for 40 hours) and the reason for his hate is that his motive is naturally just hating people (making fun of them)

He does things easily with his own personality, if he did something else, it wouldn’t be as loose, “easy”

His ‘bars’ (music) is extreme (crazy).

Referring to the previous line “seize the drama please”, is when he says “you keep dreaming” if you think you’re going to beat him.