Frank Sinatra vs Freddie Mercury/Rap Meanings

Frank Sinatra:
Ho, what's wrong with your face, baby, yikes!

(He's saying that there's something wrong with his face. 'Nuff said.)

With those teeth, when you're through, there'll be no dust left to bite

(Another One Bites the Dust was a Queen song. He's saying that his teeth are bad. Mercury had very large teeth.)

Christ, news flash, kid, this is show business!

("This is Show Business" was a famous Frank Sinatra quote.)

Show some class when you dress, shave that bush off your lips

(He's saying that his mustache is big and poorly groomed.)

Boom

(Boom)

'''Your band's named Queen, huh? Ain't that sweet'''

(He's saying that Queen is a sissy/homosexual name.)

You dance like you rode a bicycle race with no seat

(He's saying that he dances bad. "Bycicle Race" is the name of a Queen song.)

That's what's wrong with you people, you'll do anything to get famous

(He's saying that people today will do anything to get famous.)

You changed your name to Mercury, you shoulda been Freddie Uranus

(Before he was famous, Freddie's name was Farrokh Bulsara. Mercury is the name of a planet and so is Uranus. Uranus sounds like "Your anus". Mercury was bisexual.)

Freddie Mercury
'''You think I haven't heard those things before? You're just a bully who's too scared to go to war'''

(Mercury is saying that he's gotten ridiculed in the past and that Sinatra's no different. He's also saying Sinatra's a wimp who's too scared to fight because Sinatra reportedly used his "Mafia" connections to avoide serving in World War II.)

You had a hit song called My Way, but someone else wrote it

(In 1968, Paul Anka wrote a song for Sinatra called My Way, and Sinatra claimed that he wrote it after it became a hit song.)

You're the least talented rat in your whole pack of rodents

(Mercury is referring to the Rat Pack, the nickname given to the cast of the 1965 film Ocean's Eleven. Besides Sinatra, other members included Dean Martin and Sammy Davis, Jr.)

You've got four notes in your whole range, you can't act, and you can't dance

(A human voice can easily reach up to 40 notes in its whole range (more than 3 octaves), so… 4 notes is kind of lame. Freddie is also saying Sinatra can't act or dance. Mercury had one of the largest vocal ranges in recorded history.)

I'm more powerful than you when I'm wearing womens' pants

(Mercury is more powerful than him, even when he's wearing womens' pants. 'Nuff said.)

Why do you stand there in a suit, it's like you're trying to bore me!

(Mercury, kind of like Lady Gaga, wore outlandish clothes, and Sinatra wears rather sophisticated fancy clothes like a suit and tuxedo.)

When I rock the UK, South America gets horny

(Queen is originally a band from the United Kingdom. Queen's tour in South America was one of the most famous band tours of all time, and he's saying that South America got horny because of his beauty.)

My songs have balls, they're the anthems of victory

(As Sinatra performs many swing and love songs, Mercury's songs have "balls" due to their rock nature.)

Your music is like the soundtrack to a vasectomy!

(A vasectomy is when a man's testicles are cut off, mainly resulting in pain and maybe screaming. Sinatra's songs are not manly, i.e. no balls.)

You're the pocket of the Mafia and everybody knows

(In the late 1960s, Sinatra was accused of being a Mafia leader by FBI leader J. Edgar Hoover. Sinatra denied any ties with the Mafia, but was friends with many people convicted in the Mafia.)

'''Guinea dago! Guinea dago, figaro!'''

(Guinea and dago are two offensive slur words for Italian Americans, like Sinatra. It's a reference to the "Galeleio" section of the 1991 Queen song Bohemian Rhapsody.)

Frank Sinatra
Easy, jaws of life, I can't stand a racist

(Sinatra can't stand a racist, and he's making another teeth joke on Mercury with the "jaws of life".)

I love the colored and the queers, just ask Sammy Davis

(Sammy Davis, Jr. is a black singer/actor. He was bisexual, and was known for once guest starring on the 1970s sitcom All in the Family and then kissing main character Archie Bunker on the cheek.)

Look, we all want to swing, baby, but you took it too far, you played butthole roulette, and you lost the draw!

(First, Sinatra is referring to "swing" as a slang word for homosexual sex. Secondly, Sinatra is pointing out the fact that Mercury died of AIDS.)

Freddie Mercury
I took one for both teams for a disease no one knew existed

(Taking one for both teams is referring to Mercury's bisexuality, and for a while, nobody discovered the AIDS disease until the 1980s.)

I didn't leave a mark on history, I french kissed it

(This could mean he's proud to be gay, I guess.)

I'm a champion of the world, extinguished in his prime!

(A champion of the world is referring to the line in the Queen song We are the Champions, as one of the lines says "We are the champions of the world". Mercury died at the age of 45, extinguished in his prime age.)

So kiss my ass, Frankie, but you'll have to wait in line.

(Yet ANOTHER homosexual joke, saying that there are other people that have already lined up to kiss his ass and that Sinatra will have to wait in line.)