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Hansel and Gretel (of the Brothers Grimm story fame) visited a witch due to the fact that she lived in a candy house. It’s pretty hard to get sweeter than that, unless you’re Ed Sheeran and Catfish Billy.

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Alludes to the Jewish character in “Coming to America” (played by Eddie Murphy) and is also descriptive of Lakutis, being both hilarious and Jewish.

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Spark means smoke. Swisher Sweet (cigar brand) makes a cigarillo in grape flavor. Heems smoking a blunt, son. Grapes can also relate to the violet color of purple weed.

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Even though he is writing a poem about this person, he knows nothing about them, not even a name. More importantly, he has no idea what it’s like to be homeless in a city like Chicago. Well, it’s making for a good poem.

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A super visual line, Denizen paints the girl as sleeping with nothing but her bare arms as pillows. He then proceeds to do what he does best, and write some poetry about her.

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She is asleep, and he notices her first out of all the other distractions on the train.

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It’s a warm night in the Chi, and Denizen is starting to glisten, just like the eyes of a child he sees on the train with fear and desperation in her(?) eyes.

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A bad man is Jamaica’s version of a gangster, and getting into their business is how you end up dead as Nas made clear in the previous line.

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I think he’s referring to the reverend Jim Jones in this line, Jim Jones was a powerhouse reverend/cult leader that led his followers into their own pilgrimage in Jonestown, Guyana. Eventually, leading them all in mass suicide, killing them all by drinking cyanide laced Kool Aid, which he was the last to drink.

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Here, Chance is saying that he is not a “Huxtable”, a reference to the popular 80’s TV show The Cosby Show starring everybody’s favorite creepo, Bill Cosby. The Cosby Show starred an upper class African-American family in Brooklyn.

He then says that his tuxedo (usually expensive, upper class) is to show the contrast (or juxtapose) the person wearing it (who is not of the upper class).

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