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Yeah it started, me and my posse, me and my colleagues
We some riders, we drivin’ past them, we Ricky Bobby Towkio – Intro (My Calling)
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Towkio and his Savemoney crew are accelerating past the other rappers in the game, just like Ricky Bobby did in Talledega Nights.

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[Verse 1] Logic – The Jam
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Logic speaks on many lines of this verse in an interview with HardknockTV:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B6oRh5GgtsE

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It's nothin, I'm from New York but I got country cousins Talib Kweli (Ft. Raheem DeVaughn & UGK) – Country Cousins
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As a rapper from Brooklyn, NY, Talib Kweli has good friends that aren’t from the city. Bun B and Pimp C, the featured artists on this track, are from Texas (the country).

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And every Saturday morning, I watched cartoons with a bowl of Frosted Flakes Talib Kweli (Ft. Raheem DeVaughn & UGK) – Country Cousins
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Many children enjoyed their Saturday mornings watching classic cartoons while eating sweet cereals that the shows even advertised on their commercial breaks.

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But really I'm too dopeboy
HotNewHipHop, Underground On Smash VIC MENSA (Ft. Halsey, LE1F, Lil B & Malik Yusef) – Free Love
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Lil B recognizes his success by describing himself with the titles of popular hip hop websites, 2DopeBoyz and HotNewHipHop.

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Didn’t go to college but I would’ve pledged Broke Phi Broke till I got the K Michael Christmas (Ft. $ilkMoney) – Who Cares
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Michael drops a little bit of a double entendre at the end of the second verse. Growing up poor, he never had much money, so if he went to college a fraternity may have been too expensive.

He throws in “Broke Phi Broke” which is a reference to Kanye’s skits on Late Registration.

Another common greek letter is Kappa, annunciated primarily as “K,” which also represents $1000, a fair amount of money he could use.

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snottiedrippen
8 years

worth mentioning this is the perfect ending to a kanye themed verse

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While this feelin' inside of my body's seepin' like a drug
Will you hug me, rub me on the back like a child
Tell me you love me, need me
Promise me you'll never leave
Even though my daddy you know he Logic – Studio Ambience at Night: Malibu
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Bobby is not feeling right. He’s comparing the feeling inside him to a rug, which means he’s been having rough time because he feels somewhat betrayed stepped on.

He’s hoping his significant other will smoothen the struggles he has experienced, and that they will be together forever.

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Change the annotation to match the lyrics

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Lyrics are wrong

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This is probably also a reference to one of his former close friends C Dot Castro (now known as Shy Grey). Castro dissed him on Twitter by saying Logic’s single “Like Woah” was essentially biting Kendrick Lamar’s “Alright”. Also, since Welcome to Forever Castro has not been on a single one of Logic’s songs

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Fuck all that murderous syllable shit right now, just let me bounce
The mood around me is people smokin' it by the ounce Logic – 44 Bars
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Logic is known for his ability to rap at a fast speed while also being understandable. He quickly goes into a fast flow but rejects it because he wants the listener to clearly hear the message of his song.

In addition, “Walk On By” had a line that went “My flow un-killable when I be murdering syllables”, and “Walk On By” was a representation of his deep, storytelling songs with true meaning behind the song, just like this song. Whereas “Bounce” was a party song that Logic made for fun, so this song is a great representation of both his fun and deep songs. “44 Bars” explores his current mindset and is the most lyrically deep song on the mixtape.

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Achieved a lot in life, but what's a lot with more to gain?
At least I don't drink to avoid the hurt, we call that champagne Logic – 44 Bars
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Logic has conquered the true “rags to riches” story, but he stresses a major problem with our culture in that there’s Never Enough, and achieving a goal just makes one aspire to attain to the next.

Logic uses witty wordplay, (champagne=sham-pain), to express the use of alcohol to escape hurt. He doesn’t drink much alcohol, except at his wedding, for this reason. With nothing more to gain, many successful people turn to overindulgence, which he fears to be a part of.

To sham is to falsely present something as the truth – drinking to avoid the hurt is not a real solution.

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Ritchie
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Champagne is used for happy celebrations while alcohol is used mostly to wash off stress and sorrows. So logic says he doesn’t have any sorrows.

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I have made a lot for myself but still want to keep going, and if I fail I don’t grief over it

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Mario Font
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Logic had cited Kanye to be one of his inspirations in rap and could possibly be paying homage to his lyric:
“Lord please let them accept the things they can’t change
And pray that all of their pain be champagne”
-Kanye West, Otis, Watch the Throne

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ii interpreted it the same as the genius annotation. considering the fact that one of the bars talks about how other people drink to avoid their problems or in other words put up a front (sham) to make everyone think that theyre celebrating their accomplishments when in reality theyre masking their sadness

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He’s saying he only drinks champagne, a drink that you drink as a celebratory tradition. So hes not drinking alcohols that are associated with killing pain such as tequila or whiskey.

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i thought it was to do with drakes instagram name champagnepapi and i thought damn logic throwing shots at drakw

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Sounds like a Drake diss to me

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thomas eblen
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I thought champagne meant champ-pain, because the pain isn’t a sham, he’s taking the pain like a champ.

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This the flow that helped me tip the scale Jon Bellion (Ft. B.Keyz) – Weight of the World
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“Tip the scale” is an expression often used to denote a certain thing that allowed someone to succeed. Blaque Keyz tipped the scale by utilizing his rapping skills, or his “flow”, allowing him to have a career in music.

Of course this also connects to the “weight” in the song title. This is summarized in the final line of this verse.

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