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The phrase “Give the drummer some” dates back to James Brown’s seminal and oft-sampled song “Funky Drummer”, where Brown uses it to introduce the famed solo by Clyde Stubblefield. It has since entered the culture as a meme title for drum-related albums, books, and more
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Is cute = acute. He is using wordplay of triangles. If one is girl is cute (acute triangle, a triangle with all angles less than 90 degrees) and the others are congruent(a triangle that has the same angles as another) to that one girl then they all are ‘cute’.
Get it…a cute girl…the other girls have the same cuteness…acute triangle the other triangles have the same acute angles
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Bury his bones plays off the previous line about him dying and comparing himself to the extinct triceratops.
Burying his bones refers to him having sex with Mariah Carey or Keri Hilson. He’s made references to wanting to fuck both of them in his previous songs.
This may be a reference to Tyler, the Creator’s “Yonkers”, specifically the line about the triceratops.
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