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Sumer was one of the first human civilizations. This line evokes the initial lines of the verse that reference “Babylon,” as the Sumerians lived in southern Iraq, in the area that would later be known as Babylonia.

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Soul enjoys cruising through the night with his girl. In 1775, Paul Revere rode through the night to warn that “the British were coming” before the first battles of the Revolutionary War, the battles of Lexington and Concord.

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He started to master words through his raps.

A kid from Will Smith and his ex-wife Jada would have had the last name “Smith” (due to the patriarchal naming system), thus, “wordsmith.”

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He feels like his life is a dream he’s having while he dozed off in his notebook.

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B.o.B is so fly that the gravity couldn’t contain him, and he reached escape velocity, and busted out into space, where gravity is extremely minimal. This is all, of course, a metaphor for his awesomeness.

Gravity is the force that pushes down on all objects, preventing them from floating around.

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Top Dawg Entertainment is Ab-Soul’s label. Jay Rock was the first artist on it, and the president is Anthony ‘Top Dawg’ Tiffith.

Labelmates include:
Kendrick Lamar
Schoolboy Q
Isaiah Rashad
SZA

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This is in reference to the previous line, you can’t get stuck in the perceptions of a trip because the outside world will still affect you. You are not safe from reality just because you escape it temporarily.

Pulled from context, this is a line about how fucked up the world is right now. Everyone is being affected by the troubles in society, whether it be from crime and poverty, the economy, or actual war. A variation of this line was used in Mobb Deep’s “Survival of the Fittest.” .

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During Soul’s galactic journey, he visited the Andromeda Galaxy, 2.6 million light-years away from Earth. To put that in perspective, 1 light-year is 6 trillion miles.

A shrine attracts the practice of pilgrimage and pilgrimage is a journey of spiritual power. Soul has found spiritual awakening from Andromeda (Universe Island) after receiving their letter and being a pilgrim of the cause. Now they want to turn his bladder into a shrine, since it has the spirit molecule running through it.

Or, he was in meditation for so long that he reached Andromeda, and held his piss for that long, which would be pretty impressive.

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Does a million sales really mean anything when you’re trapped by the fame? B.o.B Presents: The Adventures of Bobby Ray has officially only sold about 600,000 copies in the United States. However, B.o.B is fairly popular in Canada and the UK as well, so another 400,000 copies isn’t so inconceivable.

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