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“In the End (Demo),” previously worked as “The Untitled,” is the demo of their hit song “In the End” and was officially released of the eleventh edition of the Linkin Park Underground CD. It has a different rap and slightly different chorus than the original.

The song would later be re-released nearly nine years later in the Hybrid Theory 20th Anniversary Edition as the second promotional song release for the collection.

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They tried to get revenge on Sherane and those guys that set him up. “Cold game, full circle”, everybody seek revenge for those who got killed in the gangbanging game, probably trying to get revenge too.

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Yep, true.

But what’s wrong pushing people in the right direction? For some, Hip-hop doesn’t unfold as easily as it does for others.

Sometimes, even famous rappers don’t get some lines:

http://twitter.com/#!/questlove/status/14933335868448768

http://twitter.com/HerFavColor/status/256045283769729024

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It looks like that when you make a “guide”, you don’t need to go as far as checking the contributor guidelines, which is front-paged on a regular basis.

He’s trying to say we annote lyrics word by word even if, in the contributor guidelines, we forbid it:

HIGHLIGHT ENTIRE LINES WHENEVER POSSIBLE – NOT SINGLE WORDS

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Gangsters greet Kendrick Lamar, and tell him to keep doing music. Even though Kendrick Lamar is far from a gangster, most gangsters respect his music. Because he speaks on his own lifestyle, and theirs as well.

A play on words between G5 and “G’s give high fives”.

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Wu-Tang Clan was one of the biggest groups of Macklemore’s formative years. And we all know that Wu-Tang is for the children

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BS181X4F3bw#t=0m27s

Ironic, though, as Wu-Tang stated early on that they weren’t exactly fans of gold teeth.

Some, however, still rocked the gold fronts.

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Macklemore, back in the day, brought his 4-track recorder across Seattle on the bus to work with other people. Bussing also refers to mixing audio tracks on a mixing desk; since he only had 4-tracks, he’d have to bus several instruments and microphones into each track to make a full song.

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Une évasion psychologique par la drogue vu que s'évader physiquement de la prison est presque impossible.

Notez aussi le jeu de mot avec «s'évader».

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Métaphore comparant la vente de produit illicite avec le hockey:

Le jeu étant la vente de drogue, les joueurs sur la glace étant ceux qui font du beaucoup de profit.

Lorsque ceux qui vendent de la drogue viennent à quitter la «partie», beaucoup de plus petits vendeurs sont prêt à prendre leurs places, ici, étant la vente de drogue en prison qui est beaucoup plus payante.

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