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English Riddle with “6 Foot 7 Foot”

April 17, 2013 by Stephen Mayeux

Lil Wayne released a song featuring Cory Gunz titled “6 Foot 7 Foot” (2011). There are a lot of great lines on this track, but some of them are very hard to understand because of the complex word play. This is one of the most difficult lines to understand! Please read it below and listen to the song. The answer and explanation are below the video, so do not scroll down if you are not ready to see the explanation!

Real Gs move in silence like lasagna

A “g” is a gangster, which is a criminal in a gang. A gang is an organized group of criminals. So… Real Gs, real gangsters, move in silence. That’s not very difficult to understand. They move quietly and silently because they do not want to get caught and arrested by the police.

But lasagna is food like spaghetti. How can a gangster movie quietly like food? Scroll below for an explanation. 

  • Many letters in English words are silent. For example, the word dumb has a silent letter. Do not pronounce the final “b”
  • Lasagna also has a silent letter. The letter “g” is silent, and we do not pronounce it. Pronounce it like /lasanja/
  • In other words, Gs or gangsters, do their crimes silently. They move in silence like the letter “g” in the word lasagna.

Pretty cool, right?! Do you listen to hip-hop music often? Are there words or lines that you do not understand, even with a good dictionary? Write your questions or hip-hop riddles here, and I will answer them! 

Filed Under: Other, Students, Word Play Tagged With: critical thinking, Lil Wayne, lyrics, riddle

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Stephen Mayeux is the founder of ESLhiphop.com. He used to be an English Teacher, but now he lives in Austin, TX and works as a software developer.

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