{"id":122,"date":"2009-03-31T09:18:25","date_gmt":"2009-03-31T09:18:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/gap\/wp\/?p=122"},"modified":"2009-03-31T09:18:25","modified_gmt":"2009-03-31T09:18:25","slug":"i_dont_think_that_means_what_y","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/gap\/2009\/03\/i_dont_think_that_means_what_y\/","title":{"rendered":"I Don’t Think That Means What You Think It Means"},"content":{"rendered":"

Fair readers, do you sometimes find yourself perplexed by rap music? Scratch thy head in anxious confusion no longer! This just in the inbox: Discover UnderstandRap.com<\/a>, which “lets people who don’t understand rap music submit confusing terms (parts of lyrics) used in rap songs for other people to explain”–often with Webster-like<\/a> literalness. <\/p>\n

Examples: <\/p>\n

“the party was jumpin'”<\/p>\n

Term from Song: Who Let the Dogs Out? on Album: Who Let The Dogs Out by Artist: Baha Men<\/p>\n

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the party had escalated to such a point that it could be considered “jumpin.” this does not necessarily mean that everyone at the party was actually jumping, but that is definitely a possibility. it most likely refers to a lot of people being present. <\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

or<\/p>\n

“me and that kush, I got acres”<\/p>\n

Term from Song: Dey Know on Album: Units in the City by Artist: Shawty Lo<\/p>\n

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this may be an exaggeration as he claims to have acres of marijuana. probably not a possibility in the United States as it is illegal and a field of marijuana plants an acre in size would be almost impossible to conceal from authorities. <\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

Now, if it’s the body counts in the great operas that have you confused, you can get that break down here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Fair readers, do you sometimes find yourself perplexed by rap music? Scratch thy head in anxious confusion no longer! This just in the inbox: Discover UnderstandRap.com, which “lets people who don’t understand rap music submit confusing terms (parts of lyrics) used in rap songs for other people to explain”–often with Webster-like literalness. Examples: “the party […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-122","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-uncategorized","7":"entry"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/gap\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/122","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/gap\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/gap\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/gap\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/gap\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=122"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/gap\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/122\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/gap\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=122"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/gap\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=122"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/gap\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=122"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}