TOP TEN: NoCap’s Mind-blowing Bars on “Steel Human”

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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.

Needed a knot.

9.

“This sh*t something like a music app, you spin, it get more realer”

- Lean On Me

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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?

… 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.

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.

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.

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.

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

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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

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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.

Safety, Eric Reid.

Former Washington QB, RG3.

Former Washington QB, RG3.

Bars.

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