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Continuing with the theme of racial inequality, ‘Ye disapproves of getting selected for extra screening at the airport when he knows it is because of the color of his skin. Despite his wealth, he is still a target of racism.

Heightened security in airports have been argued to have led to a bias against those with Middle Eastern descent. Many people who are Middle Eastern have complained that they are stopped for additional searching more often than their white counterparts, even though they haven’t done anything wrong or suspicious.

Racial profiling in random searches extends beyond just Middle Easterners, however. Stop-and-frisk is a random searching method that has been used extensively in New York City where police officers randomly search people for evidence of wrongdoing. In 2011, 92% of people frisked were males, 87% were African American or Latino, and only 12% were found to be doing something illegal.

In 2012, an audio recording of two cops stopping and frisking an innocent African American went viral because of the racist language, violence, and disdain that the cops showed the young man.

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Similar to his “Power” music video, Kanye compares himself to the Greek gods of Mount Olympus.

The Olympians in Greece paid tribute to the gods by performing at their physical and mental peak. Instead, Kanye relates being an Olympian as a runaway slave, in the heat of the moment for being a Black icon – Ye is running the race for black people (note that the most elite sprinters are black) and restoring the namesake in Black History.

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Cirque du Soleil is a Canadian company that creates shows which often feature acrobatics based around a particular story.

Chris is alluding that his girl’s sexual prowess has grown and she is now very acrobatic and capable of new positions, like a Cirque du Soleil performer.

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The images were from Alice in Wonderland, it was Alice in the boat, she buys an egg, and it turns into Humpty Dumpty. The woman serving in the shop turns into a sheep, and the next minute they are rowing in a rowing boat somewhere, and I was visualizing that.

– John Lennon (sourced here)

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Memorizing the value of pi to N places is typically considered something worth bragging about in math nerd circles.

A thousand places is pretty impressive, but what about knowing pi to a million places?

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Cherry is slang for virginity (specifically an unbroken hymen). Action figures can be considered “virgins” by still being in their unopened original box.

Ironically, as we can plainly see, they are unboxed on the shelf, putting the lie to that line.

All those action figures actually belong to Seth Green, who is showing them off in the video.

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M.C. Escher was a Dutch artist whose works were often mathematically inspired.

Al claims that he prefers Escher’s work to any rappers' (M.C. stands for “Master of Ceremonies” in rap terms).

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She isn’t cleaning the house or even cooking for her man

Top Chef is a reality competition to find the best chef.

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Starksy is a play on the Show Starksy and Hutch, turning Ghost’s alias “Tony Starks” into a playful nickname, so Ghost’s Wallaby Clarks literally have a gumsole. Also, Starsky is a detective and a nickname for detective is gumshoe.

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Banged Up Abroad (known as Locked Up Abroad in the US) was a British documentary series about people who have been arrested while travelling abroad.

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