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Nation’s is short for Nation’s Giant Hamburgers, which are a group of fast food restaurants located in California, most of which in the East Bay. Fast food is known for having a high cholesterol grade, which fastens your heartbeat.

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Comparing the BPM of a song to one’s heartbeat has been used a bunch of times in hip-hop, but somehow someway still remains fresh every time it’s used. Having the same heartbeat as the BPM of song you’re listening to is actually possible too, considering both measure beats per minute.

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The complete capitalization of THE COUP has been in effect since the very first release, and still holds its ground on the newer records. THE COUP have this “name-tag” they put on their albums and singles, which you can see below.

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“Otha Fish” is the excelling SlimKid 3 solo cut on the Bizarre Ride II the Pharcyde album. It is the only song off the album that is not produced by J-Swift, but instead by John “L.A. Jay” Barnes and Tre “SlimKid 3” Hardson. The song challenges the concepts of one-sided love; loving someone but not being loved back, a concept quite similar to that of the Pharcyde hit “Passin' Me By”.

Multiple cover arts have been created for the vinyl pressing of the song, including the following:

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This plays on the “To no man and stand firm on this” line that just passed. It refers to the infamous Gibraltar rock, because he stands firm just like the rock.

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The girl Fatlip is chasing (“apple of my eye”) is not paying the man any attention at all. Fatlip follows this up with some beautiful lines expressing his thoughts at that moment: the girl not giving him the attention he wants is giving him doubts about himself, “What if he’s simply not trying hard enough?”, “Is he really trying as hard as possible?”, “Can he even get with her at all?”.

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A twinkle in one’s eye is commonly associated with love and everything surrounding it, but sometimes a twinkle is just a twinkle, with nothing behind it.

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To make some money, the Hieroglyphics crew is making songs that bang in the streets, quite comparable to how a street would be pounded when a pachyderm would walk on it, for example an elephant or rhino.

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