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Shouts to the gamers, euro-teenagers E-Dubble – Last Man Standing
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E-dubble’s main audience is on YouTube made up of Call of Duty players, many of which are teens from Europe.

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Pennyroyal Tea Nirvana – Pennyroyal Tea
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“Pennyroyal Tea” was due to be released as the third single from In Utero in April 1994. However, after the death of Cobain in the same month, the planned release was abandoned. The song did get plenty of airtime on MTV, however, and a lot of attention due to Cobain’s solo rendition on Unplugged in New York.

According to Michael Azerrad’s 1993 Nirvana biography, Come as You Are: The Story of Nirvana, “Pennyroyal Tea” was written by Cobain in 1990 in an Olympia, Washington apartment he shared with drummer Dave Grohl. “Dave and I were screwing around on a 4-track,” said Cobain, “and I wrote that song in about thirty seconds. And I sat down for like half-an-hour and wrote the lyrics and then we recorded it.” The band played the song live many times in 1991 and 1992. However, it didn’t receive studio treatment until 1993, when it was recorded by Steve Albini for In Utero.

A remix by Scott Litt appears on the censored Wal-Mart and Kmart versions; this remix is also available on the band’s 2002 best-of compilation, Nirvana, and is, incidentally, the same mix that was to appear on the single.

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During an interview with Impact back in 1993 Kurt Cobain explained the song was about someone “who’s beyond depressed; they’re in their death bed, pretty much” and that the title comes from a debunked myth that Pennyroyal tea was a “herbal abortive”. He also mentioned that the reference to Leonard Cohen in the song came from his way of dealing with his own depression, stating: “That was my therapy, when I was depressed and sick. I’d… listen to Leonard Cohen, which would actually make it worse”

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Changed My Mind E-Dubble – Changed My Mind
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‘Changed My Mind’ was e-dubble’s first big hit. A heartfelt song that helped an underground rapper from Baltimore making his “Freestyle Friday” series weekly bring his music to the masses.

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look at the times Eminem – Cleanin' Out My Closet
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It used to be understood that calling someone a faggot in your rhymes was just a way of calling them soft. But in this day and age everyone is expected to be politically correct, so he can’t get away with it anymore.

The New York Times also wrote an article about his usage of homophobic slurs. Could be a stretch but it makes some sense.

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However, in the second verse, Em calls his biological father a faggot.

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I ain't afraid to gamble when life is getting better Common – Cloth
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Now that things are going well in his life he’s ready to take a chance on her; she might be the one.

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We took a couple bars Skizzy Mars – Douchebag
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Skiz popped a few bars a.k.a xanax or the equivalent.

Also refers to bars of the song. There are normally 16 bars in a verse. He’s using these bars to speak about his douchebag-ness

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We be reading Marx where I'm from Digable Planets – Where I'm From
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Karl Heinrich Marx was a German philosopher, economist, sociologist, historian, journalist, and revolutionary socialist. Marx’s work in economics laid the basis for the current understanding of labor and its relation to capital, and has influenced much of subsequent economic thought. He published numerous books during his lifetime, the most notable being The Communist Manifesto (1848) and Das Kapital (1867–1894).

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So From Now On, The Midwest Is Unified Twista (Ft. Bone Thugs-N-Harmony) – Ain't No Hoes
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Twista and Bone Thugs had a beef before this song, but they are back together now, literally reuniting two Midwestern rappers. .

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So my tech-9 right there when you test mine Twista (Ft. Bone Thugs-N-Harmony) – Ain't No Hoes
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This is a shout out to his friend, Tech N9ne, who is one of the few rappers who is similarly rapid in his delivery. .

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He is taking about a tec 9 automatic weapon… “it’s right there when you test mine” Krayzie is saying if someone is going to test him they better know he is packing heat. Guns are a common theme in Bone Thugs lyrics, please revise.

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Churches 'cross from motels, Lord knows, pussy sells
Churches 'cross from motels, Lord knows, pussy sells ScHoolboy Q – Figg Get da Money
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Continuation of his description of the hood: Schoolboy recognizes the paradox there is in the fact that right across from the house of the Lord there are the houses of the whores. He puts this paradox into the line “Lord knows pussy sells.”

The lyric is also ironic because he uses the abbreviated word “‘cross” (Jesus) to draw parallels between churches and the Lord, both facing 'corruption’ yet it is seen as the norm. as when people use ‘Lord knows’ to say something, it generally is a generic and socially accepted concept.

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