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On the “(I)” part: Marshall rather than Em, is stating the last of Slim Shady’s existence “We”. But since he is dying, I in parentheses, cements that even further. Without Em, Shady wouldn’t even be here, so he’s saying “I (MM, Em and Shady, altogether) am going to die as one person.
As the verse fades out we go to the “Parking Lot (Skit)”, which picks up exactly where the last track of MMLP left off at. Literally.
Em has attempted something similar before.
The ending here mimics the line above.
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Nicki’s gonna kick some bitch ass ho. (most likely Lil Kim)
Punt means to kick.
This is your typical hashtag rap verse.
She probably also slipped in a homonym, without saying the other word. “And I’ll kick that ho (hole) punt” (As in shove her heels up a hoe’s cunt) Makes sense with the next line).
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Nicki is giving a double entendre. She has made several allusions to royalty and regalia in the past:
- You can be the king but watch the queen conquer
And I will retire with the crown, yes!
Bitch, I’m queen, ‘lizabeth
So it’s off with your heads, decapitation
…so it would only make sense that she would allude to her competition as MEDIEVAL TIMES (How’s THAT for old school?) peasants (who were called serfs, the lowest of the social order). She’s calling them farm animals, while she is highest, beating a king, with classless nobility (get it? She has no class, even though she’s at the top). Apparently she’s also too cool for public/local libraries, so she goes to the bookstore chain Barnes & Noble.
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Meek is using black humor with his sarcasm and disregard for dead niggas who got murked either by him or his crew, and has no remorse whatsoever for his family’s sympathies.
He’s desensitized to the effects of a funeral, especially when it’s someone who deserved to die.
ACCEPTED COMMENT: ###DEAD JOKES AREN’T FUNNY! (Black Humor)
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This is the sample that they used in Hodgy’s song, “Hell” ft. Frank Ocean. Like WHAT THE HELL TYLER !!??
It’s a sample from Portishead — Glory Box.
If you listen at 3:01. They also have a song called “Biscuits”
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yF-GvT8Clnk#t=180
Now listen to Biscuits for comparison.
They would have to say, "That fat motherfucker coffin fresh
God damn, fat bastard, where that motherfucker's casket?" Run The Jewels (Ft. Until The Ribbon Breaks) – Job Well Done
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#TRIM THOSE BUSHES!
Bald head pussy = no hair, wordplay on Forrest Gump. So she wants no hairy “forest” on herself and is kept clean
Forest Gump is a fast runner and tends to run away from his problems in the movie. She knows men don’t like a backwoods snatch (well it depends on the guy) so she shaves it just as precaution, to stop a man from doing a “forest gump” and running away like any pussy nigga would.
Gump himself, also is fond of cats in the film as well and is really soft for a man of his stature.
Could be suggesting, that she only plays hardball with of men who are stripped, down there. She doesn’t want men who have a downstairs shrub themselves and is hygienic.
Additionally, Minaj loves it when her men are “brainy” (when they are performing oral sex). Forrest Gump isn’t entirely intelligent, and she wouldn’t want him near her “bald head”.
In the gif at the top, the Hanks character prematurely ejaculates very fast, for the first time, when he has sex with the love of his life, Jenny. I can’t imagine Nicki would want 2 pussies in the bedroom
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She has professionally “motherfucked” all her female rap nemeses by being the most successful and relevant out of them all, by putting them to absolute shame.
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Nicki’s from the tropical island of Trinidad
Unlike all stoic, female rappers right now, it can be argued she has the most interesting and creative self-expression with her rapping AND singing, throughout her entire career. This is evident given the extremely wide variety of her tone of voice, personas/egos and changes of flow on all the features (maybe 80 or more) she has been on.
She has a vibrant and kaleidoscopic personality and attracts all kinds of people
One more night for us to burn brighter
We are going up in flames
One last time for us to go higher
We are going up in flames
One more night for us to burn brighter
We are going up in flames
One last time for us to go higher Nicki Minaj – Up in Flames
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To go “up in flames” is an idiom meaning to be utterly destroyed, disintegrate, cease to exist. Minaj in the hook alone is sending a forewarning to not mess with Mother Nature, equating herself to the personification of the earth. It’s also metaphor, for the choir (female rappers) is exclaiming that “we” at the moment are being burnt alive, because she just lit them on fire and they’re dying. Their careers are thus being reduced to ashes.
This is the calm before she brings the “firestorm”. The one hit wonders and untalented newcomers in Rap (especially females) are burning bright, but it’s a short-lived glory as they’ll dim out soon. They won’t be remembered, but everyone will recall the destruction Nicki caused, that she
She confirms this in the end of the 2nd verse:
Send them up in flames like a fireman,
I do the hiring and I do the firing (fire-and)
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