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

But I can’t help but think of slight biting 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.

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The irony is that Frank can’t get the dentist girl out of his head. Dentists use novocaine to null pain, but the only pain Frank feels is the hurt “supplied” by the dentist girl.

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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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ALA
April 6th, 2012

“I even look good in the broken mirror” could also mean that despite the scars or the bad things that are part of who he is (his past), he still looks good. He still delivers good and positive things. There’s still things to be proud of.

rojack
June 10th, 2012

when he says “and no message coulda been any clearer” like “man in the mirror” of M.J he referenced to him…

Abe
July 17th, 2012

so normaly, as a guy i reside wit my moma more than my pops. So if your moma nd u tight than when u see her smile dat means somethin to you. Especialey if you got a deep life nd your moma just wants you be like…. like have a better life dan what she had. Evrybody like that but like if you raised up nd barley got dinner nd sufferd and dat than ur moma ginna want u to be like a doctor or somethin

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  1. ‘Life Lined Up On A Mirror’ might be a metaphor for cocaine lines and as such.
    Wordplay with the use of ‘blow’ as it doubles as slang for cocaine.

  2. Don’t fuck up your life

Also, notice that “life lined” sounds very much like “lifeline.” Might subtly imply that Wayne (or Bruno) can’t live without the mirror.

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Lupe switches his style to a braggadocio of materials that rappers like Pharrell often use. Also, Watch The Throne came off like that as well.

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A simile relating to the funk band Switch, a group the DeBarge brothers were in.

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Lupe’s flow goes wild in this switch. He emulates speedy rappers like fellow Chicagoan Twista or Busta Rhymes.

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Lupe changes up by intimidating the audience. The style here is reminscent of coke rappers like Pusha T.

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Lupe now switches to a one word scheme and his flow is very staccato. Rappers like DMX use this style too and occasionally Lupe does too.

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