peel a cap
Definition: (verb phrase) to fire a gun, especially to shoot someone in the head
Example: “Peel me a grape,” said Rick, lazily. But Sandra had had enough of his demands and peeled a cap instead.
Quote:
“The bigger the cap, the bigger the peelin' Come through, something ill, missin' the ceilin' What influenced my raps? Stick ups and killings Kidnappings, project buildings, drug dealings...”
Nas says he was influenced by kidnappings, project buildings and drug dealings. Perhaps, but he was also influenced by Ice Cube. The first line of this excerpt comes from that rapper’s 1991 song Steady Mobbin’>.
Nas is the not first to borrow from that song. The line, a rap version of “the bigger they come, the harder they fall,” can also be found quoted by Stat Quo on Young Buck’s Walk With Me, Ludacris on Roll Out and Ice Cube himself on No Vaseline.
Another interesting (and related) word in this popular new song is llama. Nas tells the story of a group of wealthy and dangerous men out in their car with three of these, looking for revenge. But of course, he doesn’t mean the cute, furry Peruvian creatures. While the idea of pack animals as the new fashionable pet of the rich and famous doesn’t seem that far-fetched, in rap parlance, a llama is a great big gun.
A. C. Kemp | March 8, 2007
