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Everything in Shwayze music is just good vibes, so stuff is always good in his songs.

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A “Soccer Mom” is typically seen as a stereotypical white mother of a 6-15 year old son (sometimes daughter), driving around a fly minivan.

We’re assuming Ghostface’s soccer mom is also a MILF (Mother I’d Like to F_ck)

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When he says put your middle fingers up “to the world” he means basically everybody: “Fuck everybody.”

An appropriate way for Kanye to feel after all the hate in his career.

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This ties in with Dido’s “picture on my wall” line in the hook.

Dr. Dre revealed {where?} that the Eminem posters were put in Stan’s room in the music video because Stan was actually seen rapping his letters. Dre and the director wanted to make sure people didn’t mistake Stan for Em – Stan looked a lot like Slim with the bleach blond hair/white tee combo.

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2 gigantic rappers from New York that are Gods amongst rap to many rappers Including Royce. Jay-Z has admitted he doesn’t love being the god of rap but Hova will do.

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Throughout this verse, Jay is giving props to his wife, Beyoncé. We feel like he had some kissing up to do after this line!

Bu Thiam, Def Jam’s Vice-President of A&R who was present at much of the album’s recording, said this of the track:

The way Jay writes records you have to really go back and listen to ‘em … You have to really go back and listen to it three or four times to be able to say anything about a Jay-Z record. Really he’s bigging up his wife through the whole verse, but if you’re small minded, you won’t catch that.

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This is a callback to 808s & Heartbreak and Kanye’s influence on the rap game.

Rappers using auto-tune/opening up emotionally became popular post-808s. The likes of Drake, Childish Gambino, J. Cole and more were all influenced by Kanye.

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Rick considers himself a real nigga, maybe because he is doing a track with 2 legends. But basically just saying him, Jay, And Dre’s dreams have all came true.

Perhaps one of his dreams was working with Dre, as he once called Dre his “biggest musical influence”. https://twitter.com/rickyrozay/status/155831880070078464 https://twitter.com/rickyrozay/status/155832273961361409 https://twitter.com/rickyrozay/status/155832777722437633

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Damon Dash, the co-founder of Roc-a-Fella Records, pictured here with Kanye.

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In this interview, Kanye specifies that it was the beat for “Never Change” that elicited this reaction.

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