![]() I'll shoot your rhymes down like a regiment of redcoats! Mays will harvest Franklin's Quaker Oats using an auger, which references the fact that Franklin looks like the guy on the Quaker Oats cans, as well as the fact that Pennsylvania, Ben Franklin's representing state, began as a settlement of the Quaker religious sect, from which its nickname of "The Quaker State" was drawn.) (Awesome Auger was one of the products that Mays advertised. I'll take my Awesome Auger and sow your Quaker oats! He is saying he'll beat Franklin on national television.) Franklin was one of the "Founding Fathers" of the United States, along with John Adams, Alexander Hamilton, John Jay, Thomas Jefferson, James Madison, and George Washington. ![]() (Mays is calling Franklin bald and fat, along with foppish, which means dressed up or dandified. Watch me crush this bald, fat, foppish founding father! (Many of Mays' commercials started with them introducing himself, followed up by him saying that he has a special TV offer.) Hi, Billy Mays here with a special TV offer! Once again, he could be foreshadowing Mays' death later in the battle.) Billy Mays: ![]() Ben Franklin wishes to be addressed as him, in the sense that he is going to kill Mays, who is also a salesman. (Arthur Miller was an American playwright who wrote Death of a Salesman. ![]() It could also foreshadow the fact that Mays dies later on in the battle.)Ĭall me Arthur Miller, son, 'cause it's death of a salesman! (Franklin states he will finish Billy Mays off and says that he will create a coffin for Mays, putting the nails in using his raps. I'll craft a lyrical coffin and then spit the nails in! Franklin is saying that he only advertises cleaning products and never anything that is actually significant.) (One of the products Mays was famous for selling was the surface cleaner Kaboom!, which could also remove stains from windows. You peddle soap that cleans bird shit from my windows! He is also telling Mays that his character is so fake and animated for a real person that he is a laughingstock.) (Quality, Value, Convenience, or QVC, is a televised home shopping TV channel, where many of Mays' commercials have aired. Because of this, Franklin is stating he'll definitely win this battle and assures it more than he's assured of death or taxes, two of life's biggest certainties.) Taxes occur as governments collect money to fund necessities. (One of Franklin's famous sayings was, "The only things certain in life are death and taxes." Death is considered to be a part of life. My victory is more certain than death or taxes! This also could be a reference to autopsy reports finding cocaine in Mays' body after his death.) Franklin is telling Mays that he's so bad at selling products, he couldn't even sell crack to a drug addict. (Rick James was a singer and songwriter who often did cocaine. You couldn't sell Rick James a bag of crack! You're out of practice! ![]() It can sometimes be seen as a tough city, so he says that being from Philadelphia makes him stronger than Mays.) ("Philly" is the nickname of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, where Franklin lived for most of his life. Let me instruct you how we battle in the city of Philly! "Shan't" is an archaic contraction of "shall not", so Franklin is telling Billy Mays that this won't end well for him.) Big Ben is a clock in England, so he plays on the fact that he was big, like Big Ben. (Benjamin Franklin was notorious for being a large man, which in his time, was considered a sign of wealth to show how well-fed you were. I'm Big Ben Franklin, and this shan't be pretty! ![]()
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