"Ghora's" complexity
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In “Ghora” Blitzkrieg’s verse comes at direct odds with Roach Killa’s. Each of Roach Killa’s bars inserts a different gun entendre or reference. “Pistol in my waistline” “ready for war” “I’m just loaded I’m strapped” “Clap these motherfuckers” “fill their body with gunshots”. The hook of the song is punctuated by references to AK47s, and gunshot sounds and the video sees the rappers pointing finger guns at the camera. Basically, the concept of the song is based around very direct, and unsubtle gun references.
However, when Blitzkrieg begins his section, he flips the themes on their head. “I spit em rhymes like bullets call me M16/I’m whacktos intolerant allergic to bullshit/I heard you pack a toast, and you let off a full clip/Ya right, we don’t believe you/Tell lies to gain a rep man you got some issues” Immediately, Blitzkrieg confronts Roach Killas verse accusing him of lying for street cred. He rips off his own gun entendre and then tells Roach Killa that he sees right through his bullshit. Later he continues, “I don’t shoot guns don’t get it twisted kid/It’s a metaphor meaning all the rhymes I spit/And I got so many rhymes I can fill up a clip.” Now, all of a sudden, he tells the audience very clearly that gun references do not hold real meaning and explains exactly what his intention is. In a way he now gives new meaning to Roach Killa’s bars and adds complexity to the thesis of the song. He ends his verse with the line “My rhymes are my bullets, and my tongue is my gun.” Full circle, we end back on a gun metaphor and the song is complete.
Through his verse, Blitzkrieg assigns power to verse and words, diminishing the physical power and mental anxiety of guns. Roach Killa began the song by leaning into his MC name, an urban killer of pests, and tries to embody the machismo and toughness that comes with it. Through Blitzkrieg’s section, a whole new layer of the mindset is revealed, and the weight is shifted from the fear of guns to a recognition of the importance of words, warning Roach Killa to choose his wisely.