Roman’s Revenge comes on and that gets me all fired up. The sirens, and smoke machine sound effects, and the continuous thrumming of the violin gets the blood flowing and the adrenaline pumping. Then the unconventional and creative lyrics of “I am not Jasmine, I am Aladdin so far ahead, these bums is lagging see me in that new thing, bums is gagging I’m starting to feel like a dungeon dragon rah, rah, like a dungeon dragon” makes me think of a beast being unleashed and some sort of power being called forth. I feel that same power and energy channeled to me and my angry beast-that I am sure everybody has inside of them- gets to roar and snarl and wants to be unleashed as well. Also what makes this song so good and one of my favorites is the delivery of the lyrics. Nicki’s personality or all her alter ego Roman adds such a punch. She really commits to the part and just runs with it and lines like "Hey Nicki Hey Nicki, Asthma" are delivered with a high pitch breathless voice that sounds like she has asthma in that moment. Her male counterpart of this track, Eminem did the same thing as well. His persona transformed into Slim Shady and his crazy, deranged lyrics like "twisted-ass mind, got a pretzel for a brain an eraser for a head, f-cking pencil for a frame" really embodies his persona.
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