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Famous people get free clothes all the time, because it’s basically an endorsement for the clothing companies.

More importantly though, Yelawolf is good friends with Travis Barker, the drummer for Blink 182, and founder of Famous Stars & Straps. The two released an EP together, called Psycho White.

Yela has his only line of clothes at Famous called Country Fresh.

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This is sampled from Rose Royce’s song “Love Don’t Live Here Anymore”.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5vNtT3we_WI

The hook sets the tone for the song, the theme is about heartless parents who set their kids up for failure. Love doesn’t live there anymore.

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Reference to the enigmatic line by Guru (RIP)

Also, the beat is from the song Lemonade, which was a big hit by Gucci Mane

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This is Dizzy’s freestyle for the annual XXL Freshmen Class of 2013. The XXL Freshmen class has been an annual event in which XXL Magazine picks out the 10 hottest/best MC’s in the game currently. It’s a big deal.

There’s a basketball metaphor, which links Dizzy being in the top half of the freshmen class, and in basketball, the starting 5 players of the game are usually the best players.

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Reference to the group N.W.A.

Back in the day, groups like N.W.A. had the image that they were mad at a lot of shit, but they still were knowledgeable.

There are some groups nowadays that try to portray N.W.A.’s image, (cough), and Dizzy points out that they aren’t like N.W.A., because they ignore the knowledge.

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Another religious analogy. This refers to the King James Bible.


This sets up an extended metaphor for Rakim as God, as Rakim is the “God MC

“History that I arranged” is a direct reference to God, as He is the creator of all, as it is written in The Bible.


Note on rhyme scheme:

Just when things seemed the same, and the whole scene is lame
I come and reign with the unexplained for the brains ‘til things change
They strain to sling slang, I’m trained to bring game
History that I arranged been regained by King James

The metaphor for God is surely backed up in these lines, as Rakim delivers with the style of polysyllable rhyming that he birthed in hip hop.

Words rhymed:

Things/Scene/Things/Sling/Bring/King

Same/Lame/Reign/Unexplainned/Brains/
Strain/Slang/Game/arranged/regained/James

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Quasimodo is the famous hunchback from The Hunchback of Notre-Dame

A hunch is a feeling of premonition, or a feeling that something is going to happen. As this is Myke’s second mixtape, he is coming back, and everyone could’ve guessed it

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The Oscars are awards given to actors

All those out there fronting and acting tough are merely “actors”, not real gangstas.

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Parasites are organisms that leech off of other organisms, and need that thing to survive.

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To ball means any of these things. Most likely to have nice things. Mouse has a big Bricksquad chain

Playing on the pun of ball, the New York Knicks are a pro basketball team

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