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Kanye West sells T’s with confederate flags on it while that flag is associated with slavery and racism

Kanye west point on this:

You know, the Confederate flag represented slavery in a way – that’s my abstract take on what I know about it,” he said, according to People. “So I made the song ‘New Slaves.’ So I took the Confederate flag and made it my flag. It’s my flag. Now what are you going to do?"

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Jay Z partnered with Barney’s, a clothing retailer who was previously accused of racial profiling and detaining black shoppers who had purchased goods at the luxury department store.

You can read Jay-Z’s thoughts on this, right Here

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Apollo uses the oversampled but still magnificient song from Curtis Mayfield, “The Makings Of You”.

Also, notably sampled by Pete Rock on Kanye West & Jay-Z’s song, “The Joy” and also on Terrace Martin’s “The Making’s of You

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7OEm2zCSPvI&feature=youtu.be

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great antanaclasis:

Repetition of a single word, but with different meanings.

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Gal was beautiful, which weakened Kendrick’s love game and allowed her to play games with him.

Also, note the alliteration in “F”

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All his girl faults are now not so hidden anymore after a couple months passed and kendrick thinking about their future and can only let the girl go; it won’t work out.

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Kendrick thought he found the perfect girl, but the fact is, most people in the first couple of months or weeks doesn’t show who they really are and sometimes the perfect girl is quite the opposite when the facade drops.

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Play on the idiom “love is blind”.

Sometimes we fall in love with a girl’s face, forgetting, ignoring she’s rotten inside.

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