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The girl doesn’t answer her door, so Frank goes back into his car, to rest his legs and warm up – he emphasizes that he has no intention of leaving (cars are a frequent recurring theme in Frank Ocean’s ouevre).

As Frank waits for a sign of acknowledgement from her, she turns her bedroom light on, which is a start.

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Product here means drugs. Cops usually search the cars when they find anything suspicious about the individual like the gold chain and pager previously mentioned.

Ice Cube could have learned a thing or two from Jay when it comes to dealing with cops.

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A British phrase, meaning “to waste time”

It made more sense coming from Slick Rick – who is English

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Implying that he squints a lot when smoking weed. The squinted look is similar to how Asians look when their eyes are wide open.

Sadly, Rocky is far from the first rapper to express anti-Asian bias. Mos Def used the same groan-worthy “chinky eyes” idea on the otherwise superb song “Ms. Fat Booty”.

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This might not be Earl’s intended meaning for the line, but it can be interpreted that since Earl is one of many featured artists on this song, the “masses” of other rappers are trying to tuck him in the long list of featured artists.

Earl, being a beastly rapper, isn’t having any of that, and is smashing out of the brackets of (feat. Tyler, the Creator, Domo Genesis, Hodgy Beats, and Earl Sweatshirt), to be one of the artists proper, making this song Casey Veggies & Earl Sweatshirt (feat. Tyler, the Creator, Domo Genesis, and Hodgy Beats)

Alternatively, Earl might be stating he won’t be pidgeonholed into a niche or subgenre by fans (similar to Tyler, who often complains about being pidgeonholed as horrorcore).

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Cassius Clay was Muhammad Ali’s name before he joined the Nation of Islam.

Earl is saying he is as hard as the clay wall he is backed up against (his “back is against the wall,” as the saying goes), and also as hard as Muhammad Ali, one of the best boxers to ever step into the ring.

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“Women, Weed & Weather” was the original title of this song before it was renamed “The Recipe”.

The Notorious B.I.G. concurs:

Going back to Cali, strictly for the weather
Women and the weed – sticky green

“Come for” also sounds like “comfort”, so he finds peace in these three things.

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By late the 1980s, due to numerous bizarre reports, some but not all true (including a rumoured attempted purchase of the bones of the Elephant Man, sleeping in a hyperbaric chamber, and the real physical changes as a result of vitiligo, skin lightening, and physical surgery), MJ was dubbed “Wacko Jacko,” a name he despised

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