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Throughout the beginning of the song the classic Eric B. and Rakim track Paid in Full can be heard.

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With their winding terminals, long hallways, and the multitude of long lines, it’s quite easy to get lost in an airport.

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Big Rube is a Atlanta based rapper known for his spoken word features on albums, he is most well known for his recited poem on the Outkast song “13th Floor/Growing Old.”

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Those who live their lives dedicated to pleasing the social media end up living a soulless live that will make one feel depressed and hopeless.

This line is also a reference to the 2007 radio sensation Beautiful Girls (Suicidal) by Sean Kingston.

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A cigarette thrown into the dry leaves in a forest is a recipe for disaster, over 900 devastating forest fires are started this way.

The rhymes that the Deacon spits on the mic would have the same effect of this cigarette, in other words, they’re hot!

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Kanye, looking for a topic to freestyle about, begins to read through fan emails sent to Westwood’s radio show. Yeezy picked an email from a girl wanting to get a shout out to her boyfriend. He instead got a Kanye freestyle verse, which is probably more than he hoped for.

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Kanye and his label G.O.O.D. Music are signed to the music label Roc-A-Fella Records which was founded by Kanye’s musical companion and good friend Shawn Carter, more commonly known as Jay-Z.

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It is a known fact that for much of his career, Kanye never wrote down any of his lyrics like many rappers do, instead, Kanye kept all of his rhymes in his head whenever he thought them up.


This isn’t the first time Yeezy has rapped about this, in his song, Diamonds from Sierra Leone, Kanye stated that,

He write his own rhymes, well sort of
I think ‘em
That mean I forgot better shit than you ever thought up


However, this has never hindered Yeezus from gracing us with multiple songs, such as Roses or Never Let Me Down, that are full of passionate, heartfelt lyrics.

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Relating back to the chorus and central theme of this song, the boy in this relationship truly loves and has feelings for this girl. She, on the other hand, has never truly felt either of those feelings, to her love is just a game that can be played and stopped when she pleases for it to. She was able to just end things without a second thought.

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