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Lightning never strikes (the same place) twice is an idiom for: The same highly unlikely thing never happens to the same person twice. However he has proven this myth wrong since he had continued to have success and being nice on the mic.

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Kendrick can identify his inner demons, its about controlling them but he seems to like his bad side. As Jay Z said in his book Decoded:

The truth is you don’t need some external demon to take control of you to turn you into a raging, money-obesessed sociopath, you only need to let loose the demons you already have inside of you.

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Wordplay that his place where he was born and grew up and lways will be repping is QB. Thats his place, which at the time was an up to date reference back in 2007 to the the site MySpace.

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Read Upon Your History

Das EFX was big in 90s go back and check them out since they influenced alot of rappers and your favorite rapper probably made a song with them.

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Das EFX used stream of consciousness lyrical delivery, which became one of the most influential lyrical styles in hip hop music during the early 1990s. Their style combined nonsensical lines with a fast-paced flow (that included words that end with “-iggedy”) and numerous pop culture references. Their refrain of “Chiggedy-check yo self before you wriggedy-wreck yo self” from their feature on Ice Cube’s hit single “Check Yo Self” became a catchphrase in 1993.

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Layed the 3rd verse on this song, most likely Nas favorite growing up hence specifically shouting out him. The DJ for legendary Salt N Pepa.

https://twitter.com/Nas/statuses/340953971717988352

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When you were younger you always had a favorite song you were singing and some are bugging out over nostalgia hearing their favorites when they were young after all these years.

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It Takes Two" is a song by New York hip-hop artists Rob Base and DJ E-Z Rock that became a top 40 hit single was later certified platinum by the RIAA. Over the years the song has been covered and sampled by various recording artists.

Do you remember the hit?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=phOW-CZJWT0

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His music is like drugs for fiends, people are chasing the next high with his music.

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The gutter AKA ghetto is known to be extremly rough so people are flabbergast that something so smooth as in rhymes, style and personality came from such hard upbringing.

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