With your father's pen, oh
If he knew the freaky, freaky things
That you write with it, oh man Frank Ocean – lovecrimes
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Reference to “the world is yours,” the slogan on a statue in the house of Tony Montana in Scarface. Also the name of a Nas song, “The World is Yours”.
My junior and senior will only get meaner Drake (Ft. The Weeknd) – The Ride
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Drake is using the American convention for describing the four years of high school/university in order to describe his albums: sophomore for his second album, junior for his next (third) album, and senior for his fourth album.
People were hyped about Take Care – Drake’s second album – knowing it would be amazing. So Drake is letting everyone know that his third and fourth albums will be even better.
These turned out to be his 2013 album Nothing Was the Same (3x platinum) and 2016 album Views (4x platinum)
Cause I'm sipping Big Moe when I'm on that Screw juice A$AP Rocky (Ft. A$AP Ferg) – Kissin' Pink
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Referring to Pimp C, Big Moe and DJ Screw – all legendary Houston hip hop musicians who glorified the use of codeine-laced syrup (aka purple drank, sizzurp, lean, screw juice, etc.) and died young due, at least in part, to their use of it.
Word play – “I’m a Pimp C” / “I’m a pimp, see”
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This refers to John the Baptist. King Herod’s great-niece Salome asked for the head of John the Baptist on a silver platter – paintings depicting such were very popular in the Middle Ages.
More symbolically, revolutionaries want the narrator deposed and dead – given the album’s French revolutionary themes, this might refer especially to Louis XVI, who was beheaded in 1793 by guillotine. Another extremely famous beheading of a monarch in European history is that of Charles I of England (executed 1649).
However the Delacroix painting depicted on the album cover is about the 1830 July Revolution – wherein Charles X was exiled, not murdered.
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Sammy Davis Jr. lost his left eye in an car accident in 1954, and the glass eye replacement looked more like a lazy eye. Ghostface is suggesting he had “crazy eyes” or generally appeared odd
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Hobbits have furry feet.
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Gandalf’s rank before he became Gandalf the White
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Tom Riddle is Voldemort’s government name. Gandalf plays on the famous catchphrase of The Riddler (of Batman fame) to phrase his question
See the shit I saw growing up JAY-Z & Kanye West – H·A·M
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When he was a kid Jay grew up in a housing project, his family was abandoned by his father, and he slung crack. As far as former lifestyles go, Hova’s was pretty rough.
Now, Jay Z is a multi-millionaire with a net worth of over $500 million. He truly embodied the quote “rags to riches”.
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