The “reaches” of the world. Rap Genius Context. Are they valid barz if not necessarily what the artist originally intended but work so to speak? It’s hard to say if people would even admit it’s not what they meant when writing the song, they could very easily take it and run with it.

Are reaches realazz?

Four seasons

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I wouldn’t say so tbh

Thought the entire point of having bars was being able to intentionally come up with lines/wordplay that carry more than one meaning as opposed to doing it on accident

But I guess you’ll never really be able to tell unless the artist explicitly tells you to an extent either

I feel like there's a lot of examples with this, but for the life of me cannot think of one

This is actually a really good thread topic, good job OP

I know and it’s annoying me

Top off like Wallace

I think so because the listener is able to take their own meaning away from art and the artist isn't always going to speak on their own work. Plus there's the possibility that the artist is saying things subconsciously.

However we're also allowed to question someone else's interpretation and laugh at someone's crazy reaches on rapgenius.

That's one of the beauties of art!

No if we can tell it was unintentional because it’s only impressive in the first place due to the implied intent to do it

Depends on how far you have to stretch

For instance, the song For Free by Kendrick.
He described being approached by “Lucy” and asked for his soul in exchange for rap fame.

The initial reception we got was that he was referring to the devil/ Lucifer. But after the Drake feud, some fans are looking into it and saying that Kendrick was also talking about Lucien Grainge. Which would make sense. So it all just depends on how much you feel like an artist would actually write about the thing that we’re trying to connect the bars to.

Depends on how far you have to stretch

For instance, the song For Free by Kendrick.
He described being approached by “Lucy” and asked for his soul in exchange for rap fame.

The initial reception we got was that he was referring to the devil/ Lucifer. But after the Drake feud, some fans are looking into it and saying that Kendrick was also talking about Lucien Grainge. Which would make sense. So it all just depends on how much you feel like an artist would actually write about the thing that we’re trying to connect the bars to.

Yeah, I assumed this just crosses over from other art forms like literature and painting. Isn't the audience's interpretation is just as valid as the artist's purpose?

Art is open for interpretation but some interpretation can be laughable like drake say nigga 33 times in family matter

Yes

Impossible to really know if it’s intentional but who cares that’s what makes it interesting

on bad meets evil lighters eminem said this game is mine for the milking and someone tied it to mlk and eminem said he was reaching on genius

Never read a lyric breakdown in my life

Always thought those sites were for people that couldn’t understand black people

If I ever had a double entendre that I didn’t intend to have I’m going to lie and say that I did if it gets called out

Thats just me being real 🤷🏿‍♂️

Whoa, really? Congrats man. There’s definitely no way a cool cat like you has ever misinterpreted the meaning of a lyric ever, being the all knowing that you are

Triples is best

Thanks

Well said John Mauve! I think I agree, interpretation is the most important part of art and if someone sees (or hears, in this context) what someone else didn’t it’s one of the beauties of language. It is made for us to experience however we may please!

This is dumb as hell lol, at least to me.

It's the devil, as well as LSD, that plays along as a double entendre throughout the song with the literal lyrics and the more psychedelic hypnotic feel of the For Sale actual beat, and the thematic story - Lucy obviously meaning Lucifer, Lucy as slang term for LSD and then he envisions both as like a tempting, enchanting and radical woman "named Lucy". Just like a d*** and the devil.

Reddit dark Kenny internet schizo nerds or whatever hardcore reaches trying to retroactively rewrite history for a grand plan nearly 10 plus years ago that doesn't even make sense def doesn't count.

And Kendrick was already signed under UMG through Interscope in 2015, which he then resigns to them in 2020 for PGLang after leaving UMG along with TDE n Interscope in 2018 after Black Panther (then also resigns with Interscope separately a bit before the beef happened in 2024). So I dunno how it makes sense outside of the album's material neither.

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