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Haile Selassie is viewed by the Rastafarian movement as the Messiah and God incarnate.
Nacho is saying that you shouldn’t mess/cross with him but also referencing the Crucifixion of Christ who is believed by Christians to have been the Messiah.
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Turbans are traditional type of headwear commonly worn by Sikhs which is wrapped around one’s head. It is made out of cloth.
Nacho is simply playing on the homophone wrap/rap possibly saying that his raps are smooth like the cloth that a turban is made out of or they’re smart so that they require thought (using your head) to fully understand.
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Scrabble is a game where players attempt to make words out of small tiles with letters imprinted in them. The letter Q (because of the rarity of words starting with Q or including the letter Q) gives you 10 points if you include it in a word.
This is a double entendre, because the box that Soul is speaking about could also refer to a coffin. So Soul is saying that he will put Q – as in Q.P. – into a coffin because he will body bag (or “kill”) him lyrically.
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He’s the main dealer “http://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=Plug” so he doesn’t do the dirty work.
For example the “plug” in the highly acclaimed TV show The Wire was a mystery man known simply as The Greek.
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Jeffrey Dahmer was a serial killer who chopped up young men and ate them.
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He sees everything. It’s like he has four eyes, kinda like the word mIssIssIppI.
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Aromatic oils and spices native to the region.
Nard – referring to the amber coloured essential oil extract from the plant.
Cassia – Cinnamon from the bark of a cassia tree.
Amomum – Cardamom, possibly black cardamom, another spice
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This line is a clear illustration of one of the main themes of You’re Dead which is life and death. Kenny here is saying he has no fear of death because he holds on tightly to the hope of an afterlife. Kendrick is a known Christian and has included Christian themes in his works before from “Kush and Corianthians” to “Sing About Me, I’m Dying of Thirst” from the highly acclaimed good kid, m.A.A.d city debut album.
The living know that they will die, The dead are conscious of nothing
Ecc 9:5
With no blood, there would be no pumping of fear, because fear belongs to the living
Uh…you also forgot that blood is produced from the marrow of the bones; so his blood doesn’t pump fear because it’s supply pumps hope.