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A lot of people think that the President and the government in general should take care of everything in the country, they should improve people’s life condition, they should avoid wars, they shouldn’t raise taxes etc. without giving anything back.

Americans should support each other, pay their taxes so that other people don’t have to pay more, everyone should find their way to improve the country, somehow.

Magic Johnson was really hit by this phrase, so much that he used it constantly, in the form:

Ask not what your teammates can do for you. Ask what you can do for your teammates.

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Allotments are the amount of something people are allowed to use. So Jay is saying he used up all his tweets for the year, hence the “see ya’ll 2014.”

Twitter obviously has no yearly allotment, so this is a joke on himself; Jay-Z rarely uses his Twitter account, so to tweet this much at once is about as much as he would do in a year. Other than the 6 tweets annotated here, he only tweeted 40 times since 2008.

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Wale’s new album The Gifted is set for a June 25th release date. We already have the cover art and the tracklist, but the artist didn’t announce any particular event like Kanye or Cole… Yet.

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On June 6th J. Cole selected a few locations in which, thanks to a special phone app, you could listen to Born Sinner 12 days earlier. This ultimately lead to the leak of the album, giving us two different way of reading the second part of the tweet:

  • There’s no need to hype the album by writing a thousand articles on the web about it, people can now listen to it before the release and decide whatever they like it or not.

  • Cole tried to re-write the rules with this marketing strategy but he ended up being hurt by it. After that day Cole said that everyone could listen the album on stream through Spotify. No need to talk about the leak, just enjoy the music!

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Kanye projected New Slaves on 66 buildings around the world on May 28th, debuting his new single that way. No one in the history of music ever done something like that, so the cops weren’t ready and panicked. This was caused by the #newrules that he mentioned before as well.

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On July 4th ‘13 (VII IV XIII) the first million of users who will log in on the Magna Carta Holy Grail app will download the album for free (See this annotation for more infos).

Billboard proceeds to rank every album through the Nielsen SoundScan, therefore the free digital copies won’t be counted in the overall number.

The standard ranking system isn’t ready for the #newrules that Jay and the other artists are creating!

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During Game 5 of the 2013 NBA Finals Jay-Z announced a new studio album titled Magna Carta Holy Grail.

The teaser trailer lasts about 3 minutes and it features 99 Problems‘ producer Rick Rubin and other music personalities as well.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SX3t1tVpl90

Hova signed a partnership with Samsung that will bring the album for free to the first million users who download it through the official app that will be released on Google Play on June 24th (Countdown). In the video there’s a lot of Samsung gadgets used such as the Galaxy Note in which Jay reads the lyrics.

VII IV XIII is 7/4/13 written in Roman numbers. The album will be available on July 4th for Samsung users via the official app and on July 7th for the rest of the world.

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When Tebow played for the Denver Broncos in 2011 the team winning streak was ended by the Patriots in week 15 with a 41–23 loss. They met again in the playoffs, where the Pats knocked the Broncos out in the second round.

They didn’t meet in 2012 as Tebow was injuried for the Thanksgiving Game against them.

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The Patriots achievements list is simply stunning.

  • Division Championships: 1963, 1978, 1986, 1996, 1997, 2001, 2003, 2004, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2010, 2011 2012.

  • Conference Championships: 1985, 1996, 2001, 2003, 2004, 2007, 2011.

  • Superbowl Championships: 2001 (XXXVI), 2003 (XXXVIII), 2004 (XXXIX).

The team home games are played at the Gilette Stadium in Foxborough.

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The starter QB for the New England Patriots, considered to be one of the best in the game. He’s also considered the franchise player for the Pats, as he wore the New England jersey for 13 years now.

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"Now it's hard not to kill niggas / It's like a full time ..." (Jay-Z – Streets Is Watching) | accepted

In his autobiography, Decoded, Jay-Z explains that these two lines are referred to the time when Vol. 3 Life and Times of S. Carter hit the streets one month before the release as it was bootlegged. After talking to some people he got the name of the guy who was behind it and confronted him at Q-Tip’s solo album release party but as he didn’t have any proof of it, Jay-Z was charged with assault. With these couple lines he tries to explain how hard it is to stay calm in some kind of situation, you can’t afford to commit an error that could cost you your entire career.

"Bin gar keine Russin, stamm' aus Litauen, echt deutsch." (T.S. Eliot – The Waste Land) | accepted

The line is also an expression of fear in the racially prejudiced Germany of the time. Fear is another main topic in this poem, as we can see in the following few lines.

"And we high as the way we cruising on / High like I like ..." (Kanye West – Because of You (Remix)) | accepted

Mercury is a brand of highlighters too.

"And the 26 inch rim wheels looks so good with your 6-inch..." (Kanye West – Because of You (Remix)) | accepted

Rim wheels of a car can be tuned, Kanye uses 26' on his car

and he compares them to the girl’s heels, 6 inches is the highest you can wear.

"[Skit] / "I'm gon' ask you one more time homie, where is ..." (Kendrick Lamar – Poetic Justice) | accepted

We can compare this skit to the beginning of the Odyssey.

In the first book of the poem Odysseus finds himself in Ogygia, a remote island, with the goddess Calypso. During a banquet she asks him to narrate his story. From line 170 on, the poem reads:

And now, sir, tell me and tell me true, who you are and where you come from. Tell me of your town and parents, what manner of ship you came in […]

You can clearly see the similarity between the skit and this part of the text.

Odysseus is a hero who fought in the war of Troy and won it but he’s not even recognized by Calypso. He cannot be happy because he’s unable to come back to his throne in Itacha, Calypso fell in love with him and just like Dido in the Aeneid, she doesn’t want her loved to leave.

Kendrick finds himself in a very similar situation. He finds himself away from his hood, his desire of meeting with Sherane can’t be fulfilled because he’s blocked by these two guys who don’t recognize him from around there.

Both Kendrick and Odysseus find someone between them and their desire.

"Lucky lefty, I expect a seven," (Kanye West – Who Gon Stop Me) | accepted

Jay-Z explains the origin of the “lucky left” nickname in the first scene of “Fade To Black”. He says that he believes that luck is an energy that flows around the world, and the night he was live at MSG for the first time he felt like the luckiest man in the world, “or as my man C-Thru would say: lucky lefty”.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WkYVcxyOFiY

"Corre il baglior della funerea lava," (Giacomo Leopardi – La Ginestra) | accepted

I can’t edit it anymore now that you accepted it! Here’s a new pic

"I be on my suit and tie shit, tied shit, tied" (Justin Timberlake – Suit & Tie) | accepted

A reference to Beyonce verse in Kanye West’s See Me Now too maybe

"Gatsby believed in the green light, the orgastic future t..." (F. Scott Fitzgerald – The Great Gatsby (Chapter IX)) | accepted

The green light is the same light that Gatsby would see every night from his house, it belonged to Daisy’s port and it was the symbol of Gatsby’s love for her.

“Porsche panorama with the 4 seats”

Edited to “Porsche Panamera”