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Genesis 3 describes the Fall of man – which caused the separation between man and God – because of Adam and Eve, who were deceived by Satan in the form of a serpent, and made a choice to eat the fruit of the tree of the knowledge of good and evil, which then introduced sin into the world.
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Genesis 2 details the creation of the Garden of Eden, but mainly focuses on the creation of man and woman, and documents the naming process of the animals. Genesis 2 also introduces the tree of the knowledge of good and evil, which later plays a vital role in the Fall of man.
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Genesis 1 mainly documents the creation of the earth, the sun, the moon, the stars, the sky, the oceans, the land that separates the oceans, and the animals that inhabit the earth, which took place over the course of six days*. This chapter gives the reader just a glimpse of God’s awesome, and unlimited power, as he merely speaks the unbelievable complexity of the universe into existence.
*It should be noted that the six days of creation very likely took place over the course of many, many years.
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An Aesop fable dealing with the issue of greed and wanting more than you need.
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XO is the Weeknd’s logo, and is part of his slogan “XO ‘til we overdose”. Despite what some may think, it does not stand for hugs and kisses like the original acronym.
- X stands for the drug ecstasy.
- O stands for the drug oxycodone.
The Weeknd has never been shy about referencing drug use in his music, and the XO logo is a perfect embodiment of that. The slogan “XO ‘til we overdose” is a double meaning.
Literally doing copious amounts of both these drugs until you overdose.
Listening to tons of The Weeknd’s music until the listener figuratively overdoses from the music.
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The camera lights are used to represent Abel’s transition from underground artist to mainstream artist. The flashes represent the paparazzi taking pictures of him as his fame increases. In an interview, The Weeknd stated that he mysterious character has been behind the success of his career
We live in an era when everything is so excessive, I think it’s refreshing for everybody to be like, ‘Who the f**k is this guy?’ I think that’s why my career is going to be so long: Because I haven’t given people everything.
Another reason for him looking away is because he doesn’t like the way he looks in pictures:
I was everything an R&B singer wasn’t. I wasn’t in shape. I wasn’t a pretty boy. I was awkward as f**k. I didn’t like the way I looked in pictures—when I saw myself on a digital camera, I was like, ‘Eesh
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In today’s music industry, artists who abandon the “underground” music scene in pursuit of fame and major label deals, are often seen as “selling out” and essentially selling their souls. In 2012 The Weeknd, who had previously been a lesser-known, underground artist, signed to Universal Republic Records, essentially entering the mainstream music market. Soon after, he released this open letter to fans, apologizing for going mainstream, yet promising not to change despite his newfound fame. He also uses the letter as a way to explain the video for his song “Rolling Stone”.
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Reference to the ColecoVision game system. XV splits the word ColecoVision into two words in order to use wordplay for the word vision. He’s playing his ColecoVision game console right now, and he has a vision, or dream, for the future.
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To “hotbox” is to smoke Marijuana inside of a vehicle with the windows rolled up. The intention being to keep the smoke inside of the car, so as to maximize the effect of the weed by inhaling as much of the smoke as possible.
Hydro often refers to water, but in this case it also refers to the Hydro strain of Marijuana.
Ab-Soul uses both meanings of hydro in order to give the practice of smoking hydro in a car the term carpool which really means to commute to a location with several people in order to conserve gasoline.
Here, the car part of “carpool” refers to the fact that he’s smoking in a vehicle, and pool refers to the Hydro weed, due to the fact that pools are often filled with water – or hydro.
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Kendrick is making enough money to go to a car dealership and drive off the lot with any car. He tells the car salesman to hand him the keys, just like a pianist would have his hands on the keys of a piano.
This might also refer to drugs. Kendrick hits the dealership (drug dealer) and tells them to hand over the keys (more properly, “ki"s, or kilograms – usually, cocaine).
