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A popular motivation to become something, someone in your family is not thriving and you know they care for you while celebrities are flying over you in jets and haven’t done anything special to attain all that money.

His family’s stuck living in poverty, not feeling the benefits of the ‘American Dream’, but the producers of all these military vehicles and equipment definitely are

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Schama’s just voicing the doubts of some of the skeptics, the ones that didn’t believe Schama could come as far as he already has (And I promise he hasn’t hit his peak yet)

A huge disappointment if he knows he has something to prove and never reaches his full potential.

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Just as the saying goes “stupid is as stupid does” it implies that someone is stupid not because it is simply them, but because their actions reflect it. The saying is mostly used in a negative connotation but here Mac is using it to describe as if someone is asking how does anyone become sacred? Is there a validation period or no?

People who are dumb eventually get labeled dumb over time the same way someone who is sacred has to prove it time and time again

Also, S/O to Ghandi for being sacred as fuck

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Mac has been sent to Hell for his actions while being here on earth. Unlike a prison on earth you are not allowed to get out because your soul belongs there, but Mac on the other hand is good enough to get out due to his serving time in Hell and getting out by doing good things in Hell.

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Check your cell refers to both your phone (he’s hitting you up for whatever reason) and a prison cell where he has criminals locked up; thus the “crime fighter” reference.

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The enunciation of this line plays a big part in its interpretation. From a simple glance at the line, it could be taken literally as you are far past owing us, whoever us might be.

However, when one factors in the enunciation given by Kendrick, it sounds sort of like “OVO”, which is the name of Drake’s record label.

Going back to “Ya over owe us,” Kendrick feels like he should be payed by other rappers by the rappers making better music, so he says, “What the fuck?” As in a question asking when is he to receive payment (better music)?

This line could possibly be in reference to the fact that when Drake gave Kendrick the Buried Alive beat by 40 and put it on Take Care, Kendrick garnered a lot of attention. Kendrick’s hype was at an all time high after he was featured on Drake’s sophomore project. What Kendrick may be saying here is that Drake may have felt like, “How could you do this after I gave you a start? You owe us/me (OVO)!”

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Like in the “Black Lip Bastard” Remix, Jay Rock is in something fit for 7 to 8 people, it was a Benz Wagon…now it’s the family van and he has some tools (guns of any kind) like a handyman would have on him. Shit, it might even be Kendrick’s van that he is borrowing from his mom.

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Uma Thurman was in Pulp Fiction, she is the wife of Marsellus Wallace and very specific orders to be taken out. Vincent is given the duty of doing so and she is very obstinent to the fact that it is a date.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A8X2SM0ioJ4
(Famous date scene with Travolta and Thurman)

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Biblical verse put into Black Star’s rhymes.

Luke 6:45
“A good man brings good things out of the good stored up in his heart, and an evil man brings evil things out of the evil stored up in his heart. For the mouth speaks what the heart is full of.”

The mouth over time will show what the heart values, everyone can lie but with time comes the true nature of your inner being

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J. Cole is simply asking how billionaires made their money, and if they had to sacrifice their souls and sin, (ex: kill, rob, sex), to make the kind of money they are making in life.
The struggle to make it is real. A lot of rich people are born rich, while others are born poor. He is also asking the richest “Did you have to struggle”?

Also similar to crabs in a bucket mentality, which Jay-Z uses a lot on Watch The Throne, as if pulling others down by killing, robbing, and destroying adds to your reputation within the community of people (crabs). Seems like a portion of people believe they can only “win” by killing, robbing, or fucking popular man to make it to the top. In other words be a vanity slave.

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