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The opening track from TMBG’s 2004 album The Spine is about as hard to parse as the film school films it serves as an homage to.
The music video was directed and animated by Matt and Mike Chapman, creators of the popular Homestar Runner web cartoons, credited as Strong Sad.

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Hoes watch his every move like they’d watch actors in a dinner theater performance (dinner theater=basically the cheap, middle-class form of opera) and wait for an opportunity to stroke him off through a glory hole.

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From Jonwayne’s Cassette 2

Jonwayne samples from the song “Our Love is Here to Stay” by The Mcguire Sisters

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Jonwayne opens with what sounds like a flip on an old proverb, and then flips it again because fuck you.
An old American saying is “You can take the boy out of the country, but you can’t take the country out of the boy,” referencing the divide between city and rural life that was a definitive part of the American experience around the turn of the 20th Century. “…and never get reciprocal” is essentially a fancier way to complete this variant of that proverb (reciprocal=flipped, reversed)
This may indicate that Jonwayne feels out of place in rap, as it’s taken him outside his realm of experience (his universe). However, everything he’s been through and experienced he carries within him, making him something totally unique to the game.

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Single from the boy boy Mess’s 2005 Bandannas, Tattoos and Tongue Rings album.

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“Faces” represent the character traits of other human beings.
The story opens on our unnamed protagonist, who doesn’t seem to think much of himself, first starting to see other people with the qualities he desires.

Note Byrne’s word choice: “thought” and “might” both connote insecurity or at least uncertainty, implying that this man actually doesn’t really know what he wants to be, except something other than himself.

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In this standout track from Talking Heads' 1980 Remain In Light LP, David Byrne performs a spoken-word style poem over an instrumental created by the rest of the band

The poem describes, through metaphor, a man insecure enough about his identity to reshape it based on those of people he sees in popular culture, and his (perhaps correct) opinion that this is perfectly natural.

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Lurch was the absurdly tall, Frankenstein-esque butler of The Addams Family, although his relationship to the family, if any, was never detailed (Tyga’s probably thinking of Cousin Itt).

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Likely meant to be a comparison between Durst and Chuck D of Public Enemy fame…ironic as one is famous for making conscious afro-centric hip hop and the other is so symbolic of the archetypal “White rapper”

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Limp Bizkit signed to Birdman’s Cash Money Records in 2012, and this was the result of that signature, a collaboration track with Cash Money veteran Lil Wayne. It was claimed to be a single for their much-delayed album Stampede of the Disco Elephants. The budget extended far enough for a video to be recorded, featuring live footage and a rare appearance from Weezy.

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