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This verse is lifted entirely from Biggie’s second verse in Shaquille O'Neal’s single “You Can’t Stop the Reign.

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Pac has been having run-ins with the police long before he was born. Notably, his mother was on trial for conspiracy while pregnant with him.

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The Heaven verse.

Notice that this verse fades away while Kendrick is spittin'. This is because he is aware that everyone has their own idea of what Heaven is. When the verse fades away and the beat rides out for the rest of the song, it gives the listener a chance to transcend from what Kendrick says and gives YOU something to think about while the track is playing.

What is YOUR version of Heaven?

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Reference to the Bone Crusher?

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This is excerpted from the end of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.’s final speech, “I’ve Been to the Mountaintop” on April 3, 1968.

He was assassinated the next day.

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He’s all about top-notch quality.

There are a lot of people who would concur with the idea that Germans make great beer, Cubans make great cigars, Paris is a great place to be, and República Dominicana have some lovely ladies (including Amelia Vega, who won the title of Miss Universe in 2003).

The song’s music video begins with B.o.B doing all the things that he describes in these two opening lines.

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A reference to Apollonia Vitelli-Corleone, the young wife of Michael Corleone in The Godfather, who is ultimately killed by a car bomb intended for Michael. In the book and film, Apollonia represents a kind of earthy, simple feminine ideal.

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They are ‘baby powder in the flesh’ as Big Ghost might say.

In an interview on “Sway in the Morning”, Com confirmed that Drake was a target of this diss verse, because “that’s what [Drake] felt” and the fact that he “embraced it”; why else would anyone get mad if they themselves didn’t think he was talking about them.

As One Be Lo said on “Honest Expression”:

Whoever get mad then I’m talkin' ‘bout you

Drake has clapped back with a tweet that said “Platinum. Now THAT’s Sweet!” and apparently a ‘say it to my face’ sort of comment at a concert.

I would call it beef, but then…


“Yeah my man, muthafucker” is a possible allusion to the way Busta Rhymes ends his verse on “Scenario” by A Tribe Called Quest.

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An allusion to Bronx rapper and producer Lord Finesse.

And hip-hop trio Lords of the Underground.

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