SameOldShawn

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About SameOldShawn

Representing Flatbush, BK. Bassist, guitarist, Jay-Z obsessive. Host and creator of the Outside the Lines With Rap Genius podcast. Was inordinately excited at the formation of Slaughterhouse.

“We tote guns to the Grammys
Pop bottles on the White House lawn
Guess I’m just the same old Shawn”

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I smoke herb and I make music Mac Miller – Kool Aid and Frozen Pizza

Not this Herb:

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I'll greet the devil with a smilin' face Mac Miller – The Star Room

Mac has had dealings with the devil before

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Beliefs are the police of the mind Saul Williams – FCK THE BELIEFS

Note the implied joke within the title here, one that Saul has made explicit in early versions of this poem. If the beliefs are the police of the mind, we all know what NWA said about the police

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So polite and white, but I got family who would murder for me Mac Miller – The Star Room

Longtime fans have already met Mac’s family

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In 1961 a Seattle group known as the Wailers made a recording under the Etiquette record label. Federal Bureau of Investigation (Ft. The Kingsmen) – "Louie Louie" Files (Excerpts)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O-ihIXtFyqg

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It was originally recorded under the Flip record label in 1956 in Los Angeles, California. However, it was not successful. Federal Bureau of Investigation (Ft. The Kingsmen) – "Louie Louie" Files (Excerpts)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rxedxkx88t0

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They made a great album together Outside the Lines With Rap Genius (Ft. Bill Adler & SameOldShawn) – OTL 43: Bill Adler Excerpt #3 - The Beastie Boys

One that, incidentally, sold about 9 million copies

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He betrayed the Constitution. The founders did not create the United States so that some solitary 29-year-old could make unilateral decisions about what should be exposed. David Brooks – The Solitary Leaker (Excerpt)

Actually, as Amy Davidson pointed out:

The founders did create the Constitution so that a solitary voice could be heard, whatever strictures of power surround it. More than that, they would not want a twenty-nine-year-old to feel so overcome with gratitude for his social betters—so humbled that they had noticed him—that he would be silent.

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For society to function well, there have to be basic levels of trust and cooperation, a respect for institutions and deference to common procedures. David Brooks – The Solitary Leaker (Excerpt)

In our time, political speech and writing are largely the defence of the indefensible… Thus political language has to consist largely of euphemism, question-begging and sheer cloudy vagueness… the great enemy of clear language is insincerity. Where there is a gap between one’s real and one’s declared aims, one turns as it were instinctively to long words and exhausted idioms

— George Orwell, 1946, Politics and the English Language

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He betrayed the cause of open government. David Brooks – The Solitary Leaker (Excerpt)

This is perhaps the most backwards part of a backwards argument. By this logic, the most open government would be one with no leaks at all, where only what the government deemed okay would be known by the public

Oh wait, that sounds familiar..

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MC Rimmer – Best Editor Alive | pending

I am honored to be shouted out on this. Sorry it took me so long to see it. MC Rimmer — best rapper alive!

"Myers, Michael, Psycho / Lucky Number Slevin / 6 million ..." (Jean Grae – Killin Em) | accepted

“Saw Seven” may just mean that Pharoache “saw the movie Se7en”. but more likely he is punning on that while also referencing the movie “Saw”, and possibly “Saw 3-D” (aka Saw 7)

"I.P., Throw Beezy" (Young Jeezy – Death Before Dishonor (B.M.F. Freestyle)) | rejected

@Pyth — real names? links?

"Got it jumping like Vince, motherfucker" (J.R. Writer – GOAT) | rejected

@ayo: Thanks! Fixed.

"So pump your brakes before I do you / Like a got a key to..." (Royce Da 5'9" – I'm Me Freestyle) | rejected

@rsp — Thanks! Fixed

Lloyd Banks – Beamer, Benz, or Bentley Remix | accepted

To k-money: Fixed