And said, "Damn. I'mma give these a chance." XV – Everything Is Cool
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XV spotted some crotchet pants, which are not gangster, or even mens clothes to begin with, but just like fellow questionable dressing rapper Kanye West, XV doesn’t care.
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A typical gangster might wear Jordan shoes, which are considered to be a lot more hood, and fresher than skater shoes like Vans, but XV doesn’t care.
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Just like a circle inside of a square makes four corners, XV has the rap game backed into a figurative corner, and it’s only a matter of time before he takes over it.
Rather than a black man buying whips and chains XV – Cruise
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Here, whips and chains has a double meaning.
- Whips and chains refers to slavery in the 1800s where African Americans were forced to wear shackles, and whipped often by their masters.
- Whips and chains now refers to cars and jewelry.
Basically, racists would rather see African Americans back as slaves instead of being successful, riding in brand new cars, and wearing expensive chains.
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Clever wordplay.
Pete Maravich was an NBA basketball player in 1970 who earned the nickname Pistol Pete from his tendency to shoot the ball from his side, much like a gunfighter with a revolver would.
A heater is another word for gun. So just like Pistol Pete could shoot a basketball very well, XV will shoot you with a pistol with extreme accuracy, so don’t even try him.
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A play on the collection of stories The Jungle Book by Rudyard Kipling. Soul made it out of the jungle which here refers to the hood. Mowgli is a main character in The Jungle Book who was raised in the jungle much like Ab-Soul, thus adding to the wordplay.
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A play on his nickname Soulo which is a homophone for solo, meaning “alone”. He’s Soulo, but Top Dawg Entertainment (the label he is signed to) is an [army](
Who would want to fuck with them?
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Karma, essentially, is the belief that you should do unto others as you would want done unto you. So if you fuck other people’s lives over, your life will be fucked over as well.
Karma truly is a bitch.
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To reach for the stars is to try to be all that you can be. Blu is reaching for success, and he’ll reach his peak all the way on Mars which can be as far as 250 million miles away from Earth at any one time.
