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Q asserts he’s not seen his daughter, Joy Hanley, for a considerable amount of time. This, while likely a hyperbole, highlights how demanding the industry is – stripping his daughter of the right to have a normal childhood and father.
Joy, notably, was heavily involved in his major-label debut album Oxymoron, featuring on the album’s cover, and having numerous speaking parts throughout the album.
Album coming August 29th, though
Tez made me do this song Lil Wayne – Sorry 4 the Wait
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He is talking to a college girl and he wants her to come home for the weekend.
It is speculated that Cole could be referencing his longtime girlfriend Melissa Heholt who he met as a freshmen at St. John’s University.
Illest bitch alive, realest bitch around
Pray you richer in confidence when I'm paying you mind, look
The illest bitch alive, realest bitch alive, yeah
One time for the illest bitch alive, illest bitch alive, hold up Wale – Illest Bitch
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Wale pays tribute to his figurative, not biological, “sista"s here. He hopes that they are "confident” despite such ever-present obstacles as racist beauty standards, job discrimination, and generally having to deal with racism and sexism simultaneously in a country that has institutionalized them both
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Is cute = acute. He is using wordplay of triangles. If one is girl is cute (acute triangle, a triangle with all angles less than 90 degrees) and the others are congruent(a triangle that has the same angles as another) to that one girl then they all are ‘cute’.
Get it…a cute girl…the other girls have the same cuteness…acute triangle the other triangles have the same acute angles
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Success is dependent on your perspective – what’s successful to one person may be unsuccessful to another.
Pusha grew up in Norfolk, Virginia. He and his brother No Malice spoke to CNN in 2014 and gave an account of their rise from drug dealers to hip-hop superstars.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d2Eh-oUMkYM
A half a mil' in twenties
a half a million twenties
500,000 twenty dollar bills is one billion
The word “success” originated in the mid 16th century from the Latin word “successus” and was used to mean “accomplishment of desired end”. Pusha T tells us that success is what you see it as, based on who you are, where you are from, what your perspective is and what you are exposed to.
Pusha grew up in Norfolk, Virginia where he was dealing drugs to get by at a young age. Half a million was only obtainable in paper money such as $20 bills due to the transactional nature of the business and in his perspective, that was success equivalent to a billion elsewhere outside of his hood.
Looking at this from a separate angle, Pusha T is almost saying that everyone is successful in their own way and that their successes should be accepted as it is. With this type of mentality an individual is able to grow further as seen by Pusha T’s personal example – drug dealer to successful hip-hop artist.
Half a mil in twenty is like a billion where I’m from – this is meant to say that where Pusha T is from originally (hood/ghetto with very low or none existant employment opportunities), earning $500,000 in twenty years (about $25,000 per year with a standard paying entry level or a low end manual labor job) would be just as unlikely and unattainable as earning $1,000,000,000 due to the fact that it is nearly impossible that someone would be able to land even a mediocre paying steady job in that given area. Basically he is saying there is zero opportunity. It’s like asking an obese guy to run 5 miles, might as well ask him to run 50 miles, the result will be the same and he’ll be passed out in 2 blocks regardless.
Would like to see “half a mil in twenties” explained more explicitly (dealers keep cash, implies a lot of small transactions go into it, so it really shows running an empire)
Also, he is technically from Norfolk but usually cites Virginia Beach