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What a good line! Hookah is an instrument used for smoking tobacco basically.

So because it’s used to smoke tobacco generally, you can’t get high off of it! Thus, these niggas Luke is referring to are fake because they are acting high off of the hookah which one would not be able to do if used for its original and intended purpose.

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T'ai chi chu'an, more commonly known in English as Tai Chi, is a Chinese martial art known for its slow yet complex techniques.

So Mac is connecting the meaning of “kick it” in two ways:

  • He’s kicking it or just relaxing

  • He’s actually *kicking it physically like some type of martial art

Witty word-play.

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Perc is a common colloquial for oxycodone/paracetamol (also known as Percocets) which is a narcotic used to relieve and treat pain.

Meek Mill has mentioned popping percocets before in some songs such as “Bag Of Money”, he raps:

When I’m on that pill and I pop that perc

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Another reference to a famous DJ Unk song, “Walk It Out”

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pxjZM-d_ShI

A possible reason Donald references “Walk It Out” and “2 Step” in this song is because they are both from Atlanta, Georgia.

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The Kuma Sutra is a Hindu text that basically contains practical and insightful advice on sexual intercourse written in prose and poetic verses.

Wale’s girls use the Kama Sutra to get a general idea and shape the framework of their own sexual knowledge so they can use what they learned on daddy

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It’s interesting that he mentions her in this song, because she has influenced some of his songs.

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Mobsters usually work in groups, known as families or clans such as Cosa Nostra (also known as the Mafia), in an organized crime network.

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The popular TV game show Who Wants to Be a Millionare? uses lifelines, which allows the individual to phone a friend, if at any point the contestant is unsure of the answer to a question.

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Most rappers in today’s society very rarely actually write down their verses the old fashioned way: with a pencil and paper. It’s even verified in Mac Miller’s “Of The Soul”:

Looks like I wrote this song on paper
First time I did that in like 3 years..
My handwriting is horrible and I can barely read this

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Referring to his mixtape Building Skies which this track is on.

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