Sleepy Hallow Equal Figurative Language

In the song, “Equal” by Sleepy Hallow, a track within the “Still Sleep?” album, is a song that explains at the top you can be alone, even amongst your own people because anyone is liable to switch up. Opening up an understanding of what it’s like to be at the top, at least as a gang-affiliated rapper. To understand the message at hand it has to be known what the song is delivering. Furthering that understanding of the song requires knowing the forms of figurative language that are provided throughout the song in the forms of analogies, metonyms, allusions, and pathos. Knowing the language used, always brings about the question; why is this language is used? When adding up these literary elements allows the listener to analyze and understand

One of the few ways provided is the use of analogies. Saying “Only time I lean on you, is when I’m pourin’ up,” which is more specifically a metaphor that is inquiring that pouring a cup of lean is the one way, is the only way he’ll trust someone enough to physically lean on them. Following was a simile that reads “want smoke, then we steaming like Stanley,” being connected to a Stanley steamer because guns emit smoke and by saying “Want smoke,” shows he isn’t scared to use his gun in an altercation. Another literary element displayed was a metonym that shows a little bit of wordplay stating “A-B-C, she want D in the backseat, she was on E, F'd up when she met G.” How this is known is because after the “A-B-C,” he uses the alphabetical letters E, F, and G as a substitute for what he actually meant. He also uses allusion later in the song along the lines of “You a pistol, I'm a Draco, huh. I could turn you to a John Doe.” And by focusing on the second half of the line he refers to John Doe who was shot in the head, because of his outburst of anger. Besides the fact that he lives the average drink lean, gets females, and shoot em' up bang-bang lifestyle like a majority of rappers, he does well in using figurative language to show the life he lives at the top. Most important is his delivery by using pathos as a way to emotionally connect to his listeners in the chorus saying “When you down,

Him being a New York rapper, that lifestyle of gangs, females, and money is praised. Even within the figurative language used it uses a lot of dialect that is used in the New York areas. Sleepy Hallow’s point of being at the top of the game and alone also play a part in making the way he lives different because that idea of being at the top is still his best option. By sticking with the information given It can be assumed by the music’s lines that a majority of the listeners make an attempt to live the same way, but obviously the song would not be reviewed and analyzed if it was not