You don’t even have to look past the album title to recognize NoCap’s affinity for clever wordplay. On his latest project, Steel Human, he showed off his gold-medal-level verbal gymnastics. The Backend Child lived up to his name; the back end of this album was so loaded with puns and entendres that even if your brain caught two in a row, the third one may have swiftly drifted over your head. Here’s a few you may have missed.
10.
“We need a bride for this glock cause we ringing it out
I bumped my head cause that's how bad a n*gga needed a knot
Forever put drugs in my body if I need it or not
The hood was like a dealership, I was leaving a lot”
- By Tonight
Needed a knot.
9.
“This sh*t something like a music app, you spin, it get more realer”
- Lean On Me
8.
“My n*gga not a tr-nny, what the f*ck he got a body for?
And he got that tommy tucked”
- Ghana
… and he got that tummy tucked?
7.
“Hate up on they face, n*gga, and it came with tears
Was young, f*cking up the mall, prolly why I f^ck with Quill
We might start stealing arms, I’m a risk taker”
- By Tonight
Yung Mal. Lil Quill. Stealing arms; he’s a wrist taker.
6.
“And I'm like Shaquille, I bow my head and I kneel
She ride without no license, you don't have no idea”
- By Tonight
No license, No ID. Fool.
5.
“She shoot me middle fingers, I say when like I'm Vietnamese
I’ll never kill Stephen, I’m higher than Mer-Curry”
- By Tonight
Never kill Steph, I’m higher than murk Curry.
4.
“Money make a deer talk, pull up in a Bently Mulsanne“
- Moose Sayin
Moose Sayin.
3.
“Them b*tches tried to do me like I'm Bobby Shmurda
6ix9ine couldn't get up on this track if he was jumping hurdles”
- First Day Out
2.
“Before Lil Top had signed a n*gga, I was walking with thirty-eight racks
I was already pouring up eighths of purple before I talked to Lamar Jackson”
- Surgery
1.
“I'm like Eric, I don't do to much a talking, it be hard for you to read me
So these glocks ain't got no safety, I watched a ton like RG3”
- By Tonight
Safety, Eric Reid.
Former Washington QB, RG3.
