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Rap Genius Presents the Lines of the Week: The BET Cyphers Edition

Posted by Rap Genius on 10/11/12 | Filed under Lines of the Week

Jean Grae - 'The True School'

“Praying so much, Spanish friends call me Lourdes/Quarter Loch Ness, 75 percent Chuck Norris” - Jean Grae, ‘The True School’ cipher lyrics

Leave it to Jean to fly right over our heads. When she says “Spanish friends” here, it is meant to sound like “Spanish France”. In this way, she nods to both meanings of “Lourdes”, the French city where a 14-year-old famously claimed to see the Virgin Mary in 1858, and Madonna’s daughter, who is Cuban on her father’s side; thus the “Spanish”.

The “Loch Ness” line is, as Jean told us in a recent interview, a nod to the fact that far too many people are amazed at seeing a great female rapper, and doubt that such a creature could possibly exist. And only Jean Greasy is bad-ass enough to make a comparison to Chuck Norris seem realistic.