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K'naan is so real (or hard), that he makes you look like a rental, or a lame. He is so real that even when he is relaxing people think he is being gangster, no one has been through the shit he has been through.
But these streets bred me to be street safe K'naan – T.I.A.
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Even though K'naan has always been anti-violence and never wanted to do anything savage to gain street cred, he still had to because that was just how it is when you’re raised in the hood. So, since he has so much street experience, he is always safe in the hood because:
No one will fuck with a hardened guy like him who has lived through a civil war.
He knows how to act in the hood so that no one will try to harm him or the people he is with, he knows all the hideouts and shortcuts.
I deliver what they need like milk crates K'naan – T.I.A.
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While you guys are out pretending to be thugs and getting into fake beefs over stupid things, K'naan is out on his grind and delivering people what they really want, great music, just like how a milk man would deliver crates of milk to homes.
They never been opposite real goons anyway K'naan – T.I.A.
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While K'naan has no trouble going through the most dangerous in the world, those in Africa, he knows that most rappers would be scared because they are fakes who have never even seen a real thug in their life.
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Whenever you travel to another Continent/Nation, you need to get two things before you are allowed on the plane, your passport and a vaccine shot to protect you from foreign diseases. K'naan’s imagery is going to take you on a metaphorical trip to Africa, which is why you will need those items before listening to this song.
Welcome to the city we call Doomsday K'naan – T.I.A.
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K'naan knows where the real thugs all stay, they stay in his hometown of Mogadishu, Somalia, which he calls “Doomsday” because almost everyone who lives there lives a life where they will be doomed to be stuck poverty until they day they die.
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There is no other woman like her and he exemplifies this by calling her both his lover and his killer, two things that almost contradict each other. Even though he enjoys making love and having sex with her, she isn’t right for him, she is just using him for his money and will do anything to get it, as demonstrated in earlier lines. This means that he is sleeping (or making love) with his enemy, or his killer.
I'd get to see my old man and I wonder what he would say UGK – Heaven
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Bun is starting to realize how much he misses his father, Bun misses him so much that he wishes that God would kill him right now so that he may go up to Heaven and talk to his dad one last time.
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He wonders if there is a specific heaven for rappers like him and deceased rappers like Freaky Tah, Big L, and The Notorious B.I.G.. Do gangsters like them get an eternal peace?
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This line means two things:
Most celebrity’s (or stars) fame is fleeting, they loose it as fast as a gun will let loose a box of shell cases.
In K'naan’s hood it doesn’t matter who you are, even if you are a celebrity they will kill you (or drop you) as fast a gun would let loose a box of shell cases (probably into you)
For a 3rd meaning: K'naan could be saying this line with relation to the two previous about holidays and tourism, referring to hotels losing stars due to all the negative events that happen. Almost mirroring the way the upscale hotel that that became a refuge in the movie Hotel Rwanda.