As an interesting side note, the album cover shows the World Trade Center on fire only one year after the 1993 bombing of the North Tower. The album featured Jeru's signature conscious lyrics, however he was criticized by The Fugees for his explicit lyrics particularly, in the song "Da Bichez". Fugees member Pras lightly mentioned Jeru on the track "Zealots", from the group's landmark 1996 album The Score, with the line "No matter who you damage, you're still a false prophet", referencing Jeru's single "You Can't Stop the Prophet". Jeru lightly responded in the intro to the track "Me or The Papes".
Jeru followed up in 1996 with his sophomore album Wrath of the Math again produced solely by DJ Premier. The album was also widely acclaimed, though not on the same level as his debut. Like on his first album, Jeru was accusatory of commercial hip hop artists and record labels (Death Row, Bad Boy), who he criticized on the concept track "One Day". After the release of Wrath of the Math, Jeru had a falling out with DJ Premier and Guru, and was missing from the scene until 1999, when he released his third album, Heroz4hire, released together with Mizmarvel. Heroz was his first album without production from DJ Premier and also his first under his then newly created KnowSavage Records. It featured the single "99.9 Pa Cent", which was a verbal attack on his former affiliates Gang Starr. Heroz4hire was less critically acclaimed, due mostly to Premier's absence. His latest album, Divine Design, released in 2003, was the first album under his new record label, Ashenafi Records. The album received little attention and mixed reviews. A new Jeru album, tentatively titled Still Rising was released in 2007.
True Skillz
Jeru the Damaja Lyrics
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Girl I know you wanna (I know you wanna)
Yeah, she give me looks
Hotter than Luxor and Aswan and that ass I wanna
Girl I know you want it (I know you want it)
She see me at the party
She say she like my body
Saw the marijuana
She say she want my banana
And she wanna give me that adadunanany
Ohhhh ohhhh yeah
Ohhh she say I'm a sweeter man
But she said that she don't need a man
Told her girl it's ok take my hand
We gon' get higher than Peter Pan
Girl I know you wanna
Smoke this marijuana Shawty too fly though
Ass from Cairo
She don't sing song
She catch ding dong
She gon' hit these high notes
I'm high oh, Kilimanjaro
Girl I know you want to
I'm down in Toronto
Baby come through
Hotty, wasabi
She got that nani, tsunami
You know she follow me
On that insta G
She want my insta D
And then she swallow
I said its Halloween
When I'm between her
She can't handle me, she's a screamer
She can't handle my wiener
Huh-oh
Bitch is tryina get at me, sending me snappy's
Next thing you know she sittin' on my lappy
Come meet papi
Tryina make it happy
These day I told her, Apples of the pine these days
Bitches say my semen taste fine, I'm a sweeter man
Ohhhh yeah, she say I'm a sweeter man
But she said that she don't need a man
Told her girl it's okay take my hand
We gon' get higher than Peter Pan
She said banana too ripe
Onnanany too tight
She wanna bite tonight
Ride pipe, like bike Girl I know you wanna (banana)
Smoke this marijuana (banana) Girl I know you wanna
Smoke this marijuana She say she want my banana
And she wanna give me that onnanany
Potassium, too much assium Girl I know you wanna
Smoke this marijuana Potassium
The lyrics to Jeru the Damaja's song "True Skillz" is playful and flirtatious. The rapper is focused on his sexual attraction to a girl at a party who's showing interest in him. He describes her looks as "hotter than Luxor and Aswan," and she tells him she wants his banana, using the word "adadunanany" to describe her desire. Jeru responds positively, encouraging her to come smoke marijuana with him and they will fly higher than Peter Pan together. He also boasts of his sexual prowess, saying that women enjoy being with him, and that his semen tastes sweet.
Overall, the lyrics are meant to be taken lightly, highlighting the rapper's playful side and his desire to be around women who are similarly open and sexually assertive. The wordplay is entertaining, and the imagery used to describe the girl is exotic and sensual.
Line by Line Meaning
Ohhhhhh
Introduction to the song
Girl I know you wanna (I know you wanna)
The singer is aware of the girl's desire
Yeah, she give me looks
Hotter than Luxor and Aswan and that ass I wanna
The girl gives the singer lustful looks and has an attractive body
Girl I know you want it (I know you want it)
The singer repeats his awareness of the girl's desire
She see me at the party
She say she like my body
Got hot like a sauna
Saw the marijuana
She say she want my banana
And she wanna give me that adadunanany
The girl saw the singer at the party, liked his body, got turned on when she saw the marijuana, wants to have sex with him, and is using slang words for genitalia
Ohhhh ohhhh yeah
Interlude in the song
Ohhh she say I'm a sweeter man
But she said that she don't need a man
Told her girl it's ok take my hand
We gon' get higher than Peter Pan
The girl thinks the singer is sweet but doesn't need a man, the singer offers his hand, and they plan to get high together
Girl I know you wanna
Smoke this marijuana Shawty too fly though
Ass from Cairo
She don't sing song
She catch ding dong
She gon' hit these high notes
I'm high oh, Kilimanjaro
Girl I know you want to
I'm down in Toronto
Baby come through
Hotty, wasabi
She got that nani, tsunami
You know she follow me
On that insta G
She want my insta D
And then she swallow
The girl wants to smoke marijuana, has a nice body, doesn't sing but has good sex, likes the singer's social media, wants to have sex with him, and is willing to perform oral sex
I said its Halloween
When I'm between her
She can't handle me, she's a screamer
She can't handle my wiener
Huh-oh
Bitch is tryina get at me, sending me snappy's
Next thing you know she sittin' on my lappy
Come meet papi
Tryina make it happy
These day I told her, Apples of the pine these days
Bitches say my semen taste fine, I'm a sweeter man
The singer compares sex with the girl to Halloween, she's a loud lover, he brags about his penis, the girl tries to get his attention through social media, they sext, then she comes over to have sex with him, he refers to himself as 'papi', and brags about the taste of his semen
She said banana too ripe
Onnanany too tight
She wanna bite tonight
Ride pipe, like bike Girl I know you wanna (banana)
Smoke this marijuana (banana) Girl I know you wanna
Smoke this marijuana She say she want my banana
And she wanna give me that onnanany
Potassium, too much assium Girl I know you wanna
Smoke this marijuana Potassium
The girl wants the singer's 'banana', wants to have sex with him, and he makes a pun about potassium and 'too much ass'
Writer(s): Davis, Tineo
Contributed by Liam K. Suggest a correction in the comments below.
Guillermo Gutiérrez
Lyrics:
[Intro]
Check it out x2
Got Jeru the Damaja in the house
Got my man Sabor on the beat we're about to represent for the underground
Letting you know how we mass murder mic some bash up boats
About put it down with True Skillz
Letting y'all clowns what time it is and it goes like this
[Verse 1]
Into the original, ex-criminal
I used to flippin' analog but now I'm strictly digital
2003 movements are pivotal
Split backs like atoms apply pressure till mass is critcal
Cast talkin' smacked I chopped him in two
Get it, got it, spit it, hot shitted, forget about it
Don't BOLOs, at amateurs and pros, pass time, converting holes
Put 'em in seizing chokeholds before it
Slipped my mind shout out to all my bros
You can encount them I tie-rip
Don't know your fingers and toes, MAD!!
Flow it shows like swiftness in combos
Murder MCs by the rules and props we got those, so
Days that are we got robbed no through ocho
I was at the day that I fuck shit up then they sink oh!
And the things changed but the weather you can ask arrow
'queur don't vent lightnings pulse him and her, you know my M.O
[Hook]
True Skillz x2
[Verse 2]
If I was cold hearted I'd have bitches on a strip
Even though I'm not pimpin' I shoot my game like a pimp
I go to war like Scarface I get around like 2 Pac
Real gangstas don't talk about Glocks, they bust shots
I got two things for these reeks that's a truth and a long cock
I'm the only rapper that you ever see in your block, I'm god
Like old Cyrus, the touch of King Midas
If I beat shawty I'm beggin' just in case she got the variables
Coz you can't trust a big-butt and a grin
Think you mackin' but if you spent dawg that's trickin'
I never lick it even if it's finger lickin'
I've got more sold than color green so pokin' grease, fried chicken
You know it's stereo pawn representin' Brooklyn so dope wifey had to throw me in
We have like Samuel Jackson on the realer realer I'm just kiddin'
But when it's come to doin' my thing you know how I'm livin'
[Bridge]
Everybody wanna rock the mic but if you really wanna be a MC show your True Skillz x4
[Verse 3]
Hypnotic the Hip-Hop narcotic I keep it organic other MCs're robotic
Fouls that add pauses display lack of logic
Nutritions flows get life to the mic like amniotic
Water cook shit up like a short-order, origami chef
I touched the mic and choke it to death
Launching everyday it'll weak like Hugh Hef, ner
Black super hero like the black panther
Keep my rhymes shunt like states when I chase vampire
Flip you through till' you blue in the face like big fat liar
Years from now I just be getting higher
If you put it on your blast ain't no gas I set that ass on fire
From Brooklyn to East New York the rocket shows
There is something that I think you should know
[Hook]
monkeysrule1231235
This flow is amazing.
Sameer Mustafah Raza
This is what u call true HIPHOP!
Sergio Martinez
sounds strong in this 2020 with pandemic included
Matt Vass
im left speachless u dont hear this delivery anymore
Travis Hagemeier
WORD UP
How Big is the Man?
Respect from the Netherlands!
FREETRUCEBALDAZZI STYLE
VELENOSO!!
A2theD1
True hip hop
YOta noAim
Show your...true skillzzzz ! ! Mc damagin' ^^
Pakomatka
that beat o.O