“Black Jack Johnson” is the name of Mos Def’s rock band, first heard on his album The New Danger which is named after the boxer, Jack Johnson aka the “Galveston Giant” who was the first African American world heavyweight boxing champion (1908–1915) and arguably one of the best boxers of all time.

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Even though Kanye hasn’t always acted holy, he tries to keep Jesus in his lyrics to ask for forgiveness.

Jesus Walks
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X-3gXet-ljs

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Kanye West was raised up in Chicago and in a later album, Graduation even dedicates a song to Chi-town

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A beer and a whiskey shot is called a boilermaker

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Venice Beach is where Evidence was raised by his mother

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Jana Taylor (Miss Taylor) was Evidence’s mother, who raised Evidence on Venice Beach

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The Outro explains the orgin of the saying Its raining “Cats and Dogs.”

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You need an unbrella when its raining cats and dogs, which is just a saying for raining hard.

Also, Evidence’s sophomore album was entitled, Cats & Dogs, which could have came up possibly from this line

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Elzhi is a poet while other people are just pathetic

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He is not Buket, so he wouldn’t get such a tattoo…From this song it looks like both EV and Cyrus are tagging under ‘Buket’ name. It also explains the first line of the song (“About to tell you who I ARE”)

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