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A “Green Card” (officially called a “Permanent Resident Card,” see below) is the identification given to a United States immigrant who has jumped through the various hoops necessary to earn lawful permanent residence in the US but has not yet been granted full citizenship.

The term often calls to mind Mexican immigrant workers, who do a vast majority of the hardest physical labor in the United States-in part because, due to the difficulty of immigrating to the US from Mexico, the Green Cards they carry may be forgeries.

Either way, a woman with one of these definitely has a lot of stress in her life and shouldn’t be messed with.

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“Green top” refers to her hair, so “run my fingers through ‘em” means he’s running his fingers through her hair while she plays with his dick

A muffler is a car part that, depending on the model of car it came from, can look sort of phallic. A good example:

He’s playing with her hair while she gives him a blow job.

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One of the most recognizable tracks from the Talking Heads 1979 album Fear of Music, “Heaven” was also performed at the 1984 Stop Making Sense concert that many see as the peak of the Talking Heads' career as a group.

Through the simple, and somewhat sarcastic-sounding (though wholly earnestly delivered) lyrics, David Byrne and Jerry Harrison ponder the nature of perfection.

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All three of these cities were the sites of horrific race-related violence.

The Houston riot occurred one night in 1917 when 156 black soldiers stationed at Camp Logan (which no longer exits) mutinied after white police officers beat a black woman in full view of a crowd, then beat down and arrested a Black soldier who asked what was going on.

Two separate race riots occurred in Detroit (1943, 1967, though it seems likely Byrne referenced the 1967 riot, which is more well-known.

The Pittsburgh riot, however, goes back to 1886, and was the result of conflict between Irish-Americans and Italian-Americans.

(David Byrne was writing the lyrics of Fear of Music in 1979, meaning that this song came before the infamous Los Angeles riots.)

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Josie and the Pussycats was an animated cartoon of the early 1970’s loosely based on the popular Archie comic books, that was made into a children’s film in 2001.

Even in the cartoon, Josie was a bad bitch…I can see why Tyga would want some of the, ahem, other type of “pussy” from her.

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An old Atmosphere cut that originally appeared on their first Sad Clown Bad Dub tape (an alternate version, mixed better but with a different beat, appeared on the compilation Homework.)
The song portrays Slug as a draft-dodger. The underlying metaphor seems to be Hip-Hop as an army at war with some outside force or itself.

How I Won the War is also the name of a black comedy film released in 1967, based on a novel of the same name by Patrick Ryan. John Lennon plays a soldier in the film.

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There were 151 Pokémon in the original (Kanto) games. As of Generation 6, there are 721 Pokémon total.

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Xanax is an antianxiety drug that is frequently abused, and percocet is a painkiller. The two actually interact, so mixing these drugs is a very bad idea.

…And if you’re topping that off with promethazine-codeine cough syrup (otherwise known as lean), you’re just begging to end up like DJ Screw (R.I.P.)

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Wayne doesn’t associate with cops – “Pigs” is mocking slang for cops, and Pig Latin is a “language” made by taking English words, moving the first letter to the end of the word, and adding an “-ay” sound.

However, Wayne’s claim of never talking to police is, in a literal sense, false. Per nola.com, Wayne called the cops once when he was 12 after he accidentally shot himself. Then years later in a restaurant, he recognized the cop who saved his life and called him over to thank him.

Ludacris expressed a similar sentiment back in 2003.

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Translation from Spanish: “Cat, cat, cat, cat”
A cat can be heard purring in the background of this song. Whether or not that is in fact Keke the Based Cat is uncertain.

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