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Making reference to “Rain” (Cloud Break) also reference to Chaka Khan song “Clouds.”
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Jay’s track “Eternal Sunshine” is constructed using the soundtrack of the original movie Eternal Sunshine Of The Spotless Mind. The soundtrack is a very sensual song which does not use drums in the instrumental, hence Jay’s reference to “Eternal sunshine, drum major without a drumline”
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Principal Chief is today the title of the chief executives of the Cherokee Nation, of the Eastern Band of Cherokee Indians, and of the United Keetoowah Band of Cherokee Indians, the three federally recognized tribes of Cherokee. In the eighteenth century, when the people were organized by clans and towns, they would appoint a leader for negotiations with the Europeans. They called him Uku, or First Beloved Man.
Mos makes reference to them rain dancing. The rain dance was one done particularly in the dry season to pray to the Gods to send some showers. There is some irony here, as the “drought” he is referring to is an absence of high-quality cocaine.
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It's a small task for Jay man Jay Electronica (Ft. Yasiin Bey) – Exhibit B (Holiday)
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Jay is saying that he would find it easy to perform at “Rock The Bells” with Mos def and Posdnuos.
Posdnuos:
Kelvin Mercer is a rapper, producer, and one-third of the hip hop trio De La Soul. He is known more famously by his alias Posdnuos, or simply Pos. He was born in the Bronx, New York and grew up in East Massapequa, New York
