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She's a PC: She lives in my lap JAY-Z – Venus vs. Mars
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Laptops can sit in a person’s lap, and a mack is skilled at getting women in his lap

This is also reference to “She Lives In My Lap” by Andre 3000 of Outkast

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which means I'm a Mac JAY-Z – Venus vs. Mars
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Mac’s are a line of computers made by Apple Inc.

Mac(k) is a slang term for a man that is smooth with the ladies

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Mac here refers to the previous line by apple cimputers, but also pimps are sometimes called mackerels or macks because they’re both very shiny

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I'm on that red wine; shorty like white
Same shit, different toilet; we both getting nice JAY-Z – Venus vs. Mars
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They prefer different kinds of wine, but in the end they’re both getting drunk

Note: If you’re trying to up your hardness in a restaurant, red is what G’s drink while white is for women and girlish me

“Same shit different toilet” is a disgusting metaphor (how does that work? do you pinch and scramble to the guest bathroom?) LOL ..

….Same shit different toilet…They are both drinking 2 different types of wine,but its still wine and it has the same effect…so the are both getting wasted(nice)…nice is a slang term used to describe a nice buzz…

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Jay-Z used this phrase before in his and Beanie Sigel’s song “Streets Is Talking”

If I shoot you, I’m brainless
Different toilet, same shit and I’m sick of explainin' this

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It’s a whack wordplay on making actual shit on different toilets ( Jay on men, the girl on women obviously)

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I'm screaming "Who shot ya?" JAY-Z – Venus vs. Mars
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Who Shot Ya is a similarly infamous song by the Notorious BIG (maybe) aimed at 2pac

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She screaming, "Hit 'em up!" JAY-Z – Venus vs. Mars
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Hit ‘Em Up is an infamous diss record by 2 Pac, directed at Biggie among others (including Jay-Z, according to some)

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Its 2Pac not 2 Pac

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Shorty like Pac; me, Big Poppa JAY-Z – Venus vs. Mars
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2Pac and The Notorious BIG (aka Big Poppa) had the most well known ‘beef’ in rap music history. The feud even caused extreme friction between fans of the artists

BIG and Pac were friends to start, but eventually became bitter enemies.

The song is about how opposites attract. The girl/ Beyonce likes 2Pac, Jay prefers Big.

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good anation apart from the last line
Its not about preferences.
He is just saying that they are arguing, they are different or enimies

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Shorty from the South—oh, I think she like me JAY-Z – Venus vs. Mars
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A reference to the song “Oh I Think They Like Me” by Dem Franchize Boyz, a rap group from the southern United States

Possible Beyonce reference: she is from Houston, TX (a southern city)

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Shorty played the piano; me, I played with white keys JAY-Z – Venus vs. Mars
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Piano’s have white keys, so they are both doing the same thing right? A common interest! Oh wait, Jay-Z means keys of cocaine (key is slang for kilo)

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Notice the use of the piano in the background 3 times throughout the song, it comes in at the line “I’m on that red wine, shorty like white”

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If Hov's a Blackberry Bold, then shorty is a Sidekick JAY-Z – Venus vs. Mars
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Hov, short for Hova, is one of Jay-Z’s nicknames

Shorty is a slang term with a few possible meanings, in this instance it means female, specifically Jay-Z’s girlfriend

The Blackberry Bold and the T-Mobile Sidekick are cellphones, the line also means that Jay views his girlfriend as his sidekick

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Venus vs. Mars JAY-Z – Venus vs. Mars
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In this Timbaland produced song from The Blueprint 3 Jay-Z recalls the course of a (probably hypothetical) relationship: it starts off nice, turns turbulent and ultimately fails

This song is a good example of Jay-Z lite. It’s very heavy on puns and the wordplay pushes the line between clever and lame. (Spot something genuinely insightful and we’ll send you something kitschy!)

This song is another episode in the progression of Jay’s portrayal of women in his raps. As he told NPR:

I mean, a song on my first album was “Ain’t No Nigga.” […] It was like, this careless relationship. And then that went to “Big Pimpin” in ‘99. And on that same album was a song called “Song Cry,” and then “Song Cry” became “Bonnie & Clyde” on 2004, which became “Venus vs. Mars” on my last album. So there’s a steady growth in the conversations – that’s being had as it pertains to women, you know, as I grew.

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