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Arman19940326 Posted 13 years ago
Vocabulary

what does this mean?
i mean the word "rock-a-by baby".

That’s slim shady, yeah baby slim shady’s crazy
Shady made me, but tonight, Shady’s rock-a-by baby
  

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org/wiki/Rock-a-bye_Baby used to put babies to sleep. He's rock-a-bye baby = means either that he's fast asleep, or euphemistically, dead (death is frequently associated with sleep)

— AlpheccaStars

  • org/wiki/Rock-a-bye_Baby used to put babies to sleep.
  • He's rock-a-bye baby = means either that he's fast asleep, or euphemistically, dead (death is frequently associated with sleep)
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arman19940326 what does this mean?i mean the word "rock-a-by baby".That’s slim shady, yeah baby slim shady’s crazyShady made me, but tonight, Shady’s rock-a-by baby
rock-a-bye baby = a very common http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rock-a-bye_Baby used to put babies to sleep.
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Rock-a-bye baby is a traditional nursery rhyme..
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rock-a-bye_Baby
The words are often said as
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thanks again teachers,i can get over complicated lyrics by your helps
thanks for your advice Clive ,but i've learned a lot of commom idioms through these raps,i don't deny your words but i choose the rap songs that usually trying to transmit the suffers of a human to listeners and have some meaningful ideas about life,i'm not looking for the kind of rap songs that contain a lot of vulgar slan
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your comprehensive knowledge of explaining poems are awesome AlpheccaStars , i appreciate you,glad to be one of your students my teacher
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The main thing is to know what you are doing and why you are doing it, arman19940326, and you seem clear about that. I support your approach. Good luck!

Clive.
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arman19940326and have some meaningful ideas about life
You are a philosopher looking in quite interesting places.
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