Had a dream I was king, I woke up still king

from Bad Meets Evil (Ft. Bruno Mars) – Lighters Lyrics on Rap Genius

An allusion to Martin Luther King’s I Have a Dream speech, continued in the next line (M.L. King/“milking”)

Eminem was at the top of the rap game his entire career, and his entire career he was heavily on drugs. He refers to it as a “dream” of being king. But now he’s sobered up, and woken up from that dream, he’s still the king

Mark Zuckerberg’s favorite rap line:

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