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Sit your five dollar ass down before I make change (I make change, nigga) Freddie Gibbs & Madlib – Half Manne Half Cocaine
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Here, Gibbs quotes the famous line spoken by Wesley Snipes as drug kingpin Nino Brown to put a subordinate in his place in the 1991 film New Jack City.

The line has since been used in numerous rap songs, including Lil Wayne’s “Up Up & Away”.

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Got 'em lookin' like James Harden at the awards (Oh-oh-oh) Post Malone (Ft. Nicki Minaj) – Ball For Me
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Nicki is referencing basketball player James Harden’s infamous thirsty stares at her during her 2017 NBA Awards performance.

This line is fitting considering the song’s title is a reference to the sport.

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She has them looking like him/doing the same thing as him(staring thirstily), but also literally LOOKING like him, as he was doing the action of staring

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Dirty Computer Janelle Monáe (Ft. Brian Wilson) – Dirty Computer
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The opening track to Janelle Monáe’s fourth studio album introduces the idea of a Dirty Computer in its complexities.

The track features harmonizing (in typical Beach Boys fashion) from Beach Boys alum, and chief songwriter, Brian Wilson. This is their first collaboration.

Wilson is the first of many musical legends to appear on the album, with Prince providing the synth line to “Make Me Feel” and Stevie Wonder contributing to the interlude “Stevie’s Dream”, among others.

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any eds that see this, don’t clear it yet – add to it once the song is released

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What is the theme tho?!

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Wilson’s presence in this album is also of great thematic significance. In his time, Wilson, like Janelle now, wrote movingly of feeling alienated from the rest of American society. While they struggled, on the surface, with different issues — Wilson with manic depression and schizoaffective disorder, Janelle with her sexual and racial identity and the ensuing struggles, both mental and physical, that come from the oppression of LGBTQ folks and people of color — at bottom, they both composed music in search of belonging, music of the lost. In Wilson’s work, the song that most epitomizes this sentiment is “I Guess I Just Wasn’t Made For These Times,” found in The Beach Boys masterpiece, Pet Sounds:

I keep looking for the place to fit in
Where I can speak my mind
I keep trying hard to find the people
That I won’t leave behind
They say I’ve got brains
But they ain’t doing me no good
I wish they could…
Each time things start to happen again
I think I’ve got something going for myself
But what goes wrong?
Sometimes I feel very sad…
Sometimes I feel very bad…
I guess I just wasn’t made for these times.

One could easily imagine this being the internal monologue that led Monáe to write the line, “I’m an alien from outer space,” in the persona of Cindi.

Before “Dirty Computer,” Janelle would project her identity precisely into futuristic settings through Cindi, which made me think that, in a way, she was following through on the sentiment of Wilson’s song: because she did not feel like she belonged in “these times,” she created an alternate universe in the future where a character who stood for her created a place of belonging in love.

Brian Wilson was, and remains, a “dirty computer,” a person who struggled with his own “glitches” in the form of mental health issues. So to have him sing these lyrics with her creates a poetic resonance with the music he created decades ago, placing Janelle’s music within the context of a broader American tradition of meditations upon identity and belonging. We see then here two twin souls harmonizing across generations of music. And a woman who knows herself well enough to know the choir in which her voice sings, not alone, but with other dirty computers.

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Killer Mike from Adamsville (Mike) 2 Chainz – LAMBORGHINI TRUCK (ATLANTA SHIT)
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2 Chainz shouts out legendary Atlanta rapper Killer Mike, Big Boi’s cousin and one half of Run the Jewels.

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Killer Mike is not Big Boi’s cousin

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"What now?" Eminem (Ft. Steve Berman) – Steve Berman (Skit) [2002]
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Steve had previously criticized Eminem for having too controversial lyrics on both The Marshall Mathers LP and on D12’s Devil’s Night

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Hennessy make me Dead Kennedys, I get too drunk to fuck VIC MENSA – Rollin' Like a Stoner
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When a guy gets too intoxicated, it can lead to not being able to “get it up” when going to have sex. A slang term you may have heard for this is “whiskey dick,” even though Hennessy is a cognac.

Vic references Dead Kennedy Rolls’s 1981 song “Too Drunk to Fuck.” This also ties into the previous line, “I rock leather like a punk” as the band was in the punk rock genre.

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Just Another Day (The Documentary 2) The Game – Just Another Day (The Documentary 2)
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The 18th track off The Game’s 6th studio album The Documentary 2.

NOTE: Not to be confused with the “Just Another Day” track that Game did for Dr. Dre’s album Compton.

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keep the “Is” at the end of the bars after a comma they belong to they previous bars

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Also, 100 ft Drake.. fades into this song.

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The Game sided with Drake during the feud with Meek Mill. Meek Mill is signed to the Maybach Music Group. When Game “hopped in that Maybach” it was like he was crossing over to Meek’s side, or “crossover like A.I.”

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I would suggest changing the audio to the official audio posted through YouTube’s streaming service: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dpMv2ZKGGT8&list=PL_rrV0ZUBc_0jhIbD58U4GSKRQ_YCUh7v&index=18

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I make your bed rock Garfunkel & Oates – One Night Stand
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This song predates Young Money’s “BedRock”, which was centered around a similar line, by about seven months. When “One Night Stand” was re-recorded for their debut album, All Over Your Face, this line (among several others) was rewritten, presumably due to the success of the Young Money song.

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9. Goodfellas Genius Users (Ft. Black_Panther_JS, ChaosInMyMind, Cordyleome, DCA, EwokABdevito, Genius Lists, Heisenferg, Joybadass, JulyStatue, PsyQonaut, Quikstik, Rapfanatic, SamuelJarred, Sbarro_Soundsystem, Screen Genius, SkyArt, Slightly_senile, ​sosad2112, TwoTecs, Waldfield, WuTangKillaBee & Xenophontis) – Favorite Movies of All Time
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While still amazing movies, I think a big part of the reason these two are in my top 10 is due to the fact that I had watched both of them again the week I made this list. So, I’m actually going to replace these with the two films I get the most enjoyment out of, even if I don’t think they’re the “best”:

8 – Star Wars
9 – Wayne’s World

Also I’d bump Ed Wood for 2001, a film I can’t believe I forgot about when making my list (considering it’s my goddamn avatar)

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