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It drops softly like snow
First it gets hot then cold in the end it hurts

Duality: hot/cold.

Every relationship is bound to end in tears, either by infidelity, divorce or death.

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It sucks tightly on your lips
and digs tunnels through your ribs

Bringing the parasite side of love out, mixing it with the pain you suffer after a relationship.

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It nests upon broken hearts
and goes hunting when there are kisses and candles

Making the fist you feel in your stomach when you’re heartbroke alive. You feel it when you’re heartbroke, but you feel it leave on the next date; He went hunting, pretty much like you.

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Love is a wild animal
It breathes you it looks for you

The analogy begins; Till refers to love as a wild animal, a parasite who use you for his own good; to survive. Love survives through you and catch you by surprise when you least expect it, pretty much like an animal.

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Lemson shoulda dickknobed Kendrick instead:

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This line is a twist on Eminem’s line from his 1997 “Weed Lacer” freestyle:

I’m not to joke with, bitch I don’t sell crack, I smoke it

Kendrick uses “crack” as a metaphor for his music. He later does the same thing on Pusha T’s October 2013 song, “Nosetalgia,” where he compares his verses to a “brick”—a kilogram of cocaine:

Go figure, motherfucker, every verse is a brick
Your son dope, nigga!

Additionally, on his 2010 song, “Night of the Living Junkies,” Kendrick compares his fans to junkies, saying how his music is addicting, just like how junkies are addicted to crack:

This shit is so dope, you might wanna be my crack ho

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A “quarter piece” is seven grams of cocaine and “melon” refers to someone’s head/brain.

Connecting with the line above, Kendrick again compares his bars to cocaine. However, here, he may be implying that his bars will get someone’s brain more high than cocaine itself.

A quarter piece is also a .25 caliber gun, essentially meaning Kendrick verses will blow your mind.

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The C4 mixtape dropped in 2009.

Lil Wayne has entered the Guinness Book of World Records twice in 2011.

He was first inducted by having the most “likes” on Facebook and now he has the most songs to enter the US Hot 100 Charts by any hip-hop artist, a total of 82 songs. Jay-Z is trailing behind with 66 songs.

He’s still not right about his albums & shows but at least he now got a spot.

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13 Ghosts is a classic horror movie (made in the 60s) remade in 2001.

This line could refer to him seeing his line as never good enough, hence the name of a horror movie.

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