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A freestyle over Mobb Deep’s Got it Twisted

Tyler even acknowledged RapGenius and confirmed his lyrics in a formspring answer.

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That bitch’s garbage can is full of the tobacco from Wiz’s weed-stuffed Swisher. She and Wiz got high and hit the square to forget her square.

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The fourth track off Wiz Khalifa’s Flight School mixtape.

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Despite being a big time comedian, Kevin Hart is actually pretty short in height.

Fact: He’s 5'2"… same height as Missy Elliott (see 1-2 Step) and Drake’s mom.

And for fun… we would like to present to you a rap battle between T-Pain and Mr. Hart:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dbI1RmAyv0o

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Clever wordplay on the common phrase “..see it coming”

Similar to a line from ATCQ’s Phife Dawg.

Bust a nut inside your eye, to show you where I come from

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Game is calling out fake gang rappers who wear Cincinnati Reds gear that’s colored Blood gang red.

Maybe a subliminal diss towards Tyga who wears Cincinnati Reds hats, a lot, and decided to make a song glorifying snapback hats instead of fitted ones. However it’s unlikely as Game would have name-dropped and the two have collaborated on Switch Lanes.

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When you look into a broken mirror, you get a shattered view of yourself.

What Wayne could be saying is when he looks into a unbroken mirror, he is unhappy with what he sees in himself, probably his drug use. But when he shatters the mirror, or breaks the image he hates seeing, he gets a view of a new Wayne and a new life where is mother is more happy with his positive changes.

“I see the change, I see the message” is a reference to a famous quote by Gandhi, “be the change you want to see in the world”

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A storytelling rap classic from MC Diamond D off his debut album “Stunts, Blunts and Hip Hop”

The time old story of a girl who chases material possessions by offering made men her body. But she ain’t nothing but a hood rat.

Samples Tower of Power’s “Sparkling in the Sand” and Skull Snaps' “It’s A New Day”.

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Hot, upbeat track off Wiz Khalifa’s “Flight School” mixtape. Produced by Johnny Juliano.

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“Set Adrift On Memory Bliss”, the second single from the band’s debut album, was the first chart-topper on the Hot 100 under its then-brand new methodology of ranking songs. Prior to November 30, 1991, single sales were taken over the phone from music stores and radio play was based on verbal reports given by radio stations. The new way, a much more accurate and less-biased method, combined actual barcode scans at cash registers with encoded audio fingerprints of songs being broadcasted on radio stations as monitored by the publisher of Billboard Magazine.

It was the third rap song to ever reach #1 on the Hot 100, preceded by “Ice Ice Baby” and “Good Vibrations” (…unless you count Blondie’s “Rapture”)

The genesis of “Set Adrift On Memory Bliss” was the recording of their track “Comatose”. While in the studio, both members listened to Spandau Ballet’s 1983 hit “True” and Prince Be became inspired to ‘reshape’ the song as his own.

The track became a combination of a sample of “True” with one of hip-hop’s most sampled beats (the break of “Ashley’s Roachclip”) and Prince Be’s lyrics of ‘regret, remorse, heartache and profound loss’.

“Set Adrift On Memory Bliss” was an international smash, reaching the top 10 in seven countries. Billboard ranked it the #44 song of 1992.

In 1997, the Backstreet Boys recorded their own version of the song with different lyrics for their sophomore album.

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