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Eating is a common rap trope for gaining success. EBT is the government agency which handles welfare checks, and the first day of the month is generally when checks are received in the mail (cf. first and the fifteenth), so those in trouble can finally afford food to eat.
Note the antithesis in bragging about money (eating) with something an impoverished person needs (welfare).
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Adam West was born in Seattle; he is most known for playing as Batman in the TV series and film.
West also plays as Mayor West in the Family Guy series.
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Old-school boxer, Jack Johnson, was the first black heavyweight champion and one of the first men ever to rock gold teeth; the gold grill plus bald head make the two almost twins.
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Famous composer Quincy Jones moved to Seattle at age 10 and attended high school there. at age 14 he met renowned artist Ray charles and got his first start in music there.
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A reference to Stevie Wonder’s “Ribbon in the Sky”
Here Push is playing off the keys/Ki’s homophone, which is to reference kilo’s of cocaine and the keys on a piano. The previously mentioned song is often considered a love ballad, so in this case, Push would be expressing his love for coke.
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Malice references the nursery rhyme of “Little Jack Horner”
Little Jack Horner
Sat in the corner,
Eating a Christmas pie;
He put in his thumb,
And pulled out a plum,
And said ‘What a good boy am I!
In this case, pie is a synonym for a kilo of coke.
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Mount Kilimanjaro is the fourth most prominent mountain in the world. Liva is using a hyperbole to compare his pile of coke to the height of the mountain – which is around 19,308 ft.
You wanna approach us, buzzards and vultures OutKast (Ft. J-Sweet & Killer Mike) – Snappin' and Trappin'
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Big Boi uses apocalyptic imagery here as a simile for himself and Killer Mike as rappers. A swarm of locusts was the 8th plague of Egypt in Exodus. The closer the plague was to number ten, the more severe it were. This reiterates that what he’s doing is real, and not some form of magic.
After this, he compares the duo to two birds of prey, the buzzard and the vulture, who both circle an organism overhead
until it dies and they can come in for their meal; this is meant to further extend Big Boi and Killer Mike’s ruthlessness.
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This is a slight reference to the eye for an eye quote from Gandhi. The meaning of the quote is that those who try to get even (an eye for an eye), only make problems worse.
Pusha disregards this quote, stating that simply getting revenge is the simplest – and in his opinion, best – way to settle something.
“Eye for an eye, I’m the meaning of Semper Fi”
Semper Fi is the Marine Corps motto, and means “always loyal.” Pusha is saying there will be payback if you cross someone to whom he is loyal.