GRILLZ

Finally I know what the hell is being said here.

That is one of the worst fuckin rhymes I've read in a while.

OK FIRST OFF GRILLEMKILLEM PAUL WALL WAS NOT A DENTIST, AND THAT'S JUST NUMBER #1. READ BETWEEN THE LINES AND GET THAT FACT THAT AFRICAN-AMERICAN'S TRAVELED TO AMERICA AND PAUL WALL IS ANGLICAN, MEANING EUROPEAN!WITH THEIR JEWELRY STOLEN BE4 THEY LEFT GHANA, NUMBSCULL, I BET IF YOU WERE A KING AND THEN ANOTHER KING SOLD YOU OUT AND TOOK YOUR EARRINGS, YOU'D HAVE TO BE TOTALLY FEELING WEIRD LIKE WITH UR EARZ ALL STRETCHED OUT THAT'S NASTY!!!!!!! I FEEL LIKE I'M GONNA BARF JUST THINKIN ABOUT IT. SO THEY MUST PUT THE METAL WHERE THEIR MONTH IS CUZ THEY FEEL THE VOID FROM THEIR ANCESTOREY. THANKS AND GREETINGS FROM GERMANY!!! MARTY G

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See, the Rap Music is all about the primacy of the individual voice, see? Oppressed peoples not having a "voice" in society makes them want to craft a loud/menacing/significant personal persona. Overcompensation, see?

Pop music has typically balanced the voice against the tune, the singer with the song. Rap moves towards ditching the song entirely, reducing it to a "track" (mostly consisting of beats) and a simple "hook". Purely functional. The voice, in turn, becomes the whole game. Loud, authoritative, confrontational, bellicose. Pure assertion of self: "I am important because I am the one doing the talking, bitch!" Point reinforced by the celbration of pure, selfish egotism in hip-hop culture & blah blah cetera. Y'gnaw?

"Bling" -- secret code word for shiny valuables known only to the hip-hop cognoscenti -- is, of course, a physical extention of the same thing: "I am important because I can display outrageous wealth in a grotesque fashion." Big-loud-large public persona intended to convey wordly stature. (Which, perversely, also conveys the profound insecurity that necessitates such grand assertions in the first place...)

Grillz are simply the obvious nexus of the one thing and the other. "Put your money where your mouth is." Obvious conjunction of the only two things that really matter in hip-hop: the voice and the dollar.

Blah, blah & cetera, blah.