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The opium poppy plant is harvested for both poppy seeds and opium latex. Opium latex itself contains morphine, which is chemically processed to produce heroin (aka “dope”)
Poppy seeds themselves only contain a minute quantity of opium alkaloids – enough to potentially set off a false positive for a drug test, but not enough to actually get high
So strictly speaking if Jigga is “dope like poppy seed” he is barely dope at all, but obviously he isn’t intending to delve into the intricacies of processing opium poppies for heroin, just spitting a clever line
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It all depends on what she cooks like Lea Salonga, Harvey Fierstein, Matthew Wilder, James Hong & Jerry Tondo – A Girl Worth Fighting For
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Their respective ideal “girl worth fighting for” fulfills societal gender expectations for women – which include being beautiful, focusing her attention on her man, and/or being adept at cooking food
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A playful nod to one of the slogans for Obama’s first successful bid for the presidency
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A protest song which proved a key anthem throughout the civil rights movement
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A poet and social activist – one of the innovators of jazz poetry (which proved influential in both hip hop and modern poetry), and a leader of the 1920s Harlem Renaissance
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Among the many legends featured on this album, Pete Rock was a particularly fitting choice for a song which hearkens to golden age hip hop (especially Native Tongues-style jazz hip hop) and the Universal Zulu Nation.
Pete Rock’s contribution on the song is genius, he himself is one of the first significant Islamic figures in Hip Hop. The muslims are consistently scrutinized and mistreated all over the world, and Kendrick’s inclusion of Rock could be showing that a prominent Christian (Kendrick) and a prominent Muslim (Pete Rock) can coexist peacefully; in turn breaking both racial and religious barriers in society.