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Agony Fires Army of the Pharaohs – Agony Fires
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The first track from the 2010 Army Of The Pharaohs album, The Unholy Terror. Four key members of the AOTP demonstrate that nothing’s changed since their last album:They’re still bringing hard, occasionally ridiculous battle rhymes

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“Monsieur le juge, ce cahier contient des notes rédigées… J’attire votre attention sur les changements spectaculaires de style d’écriture, de ton et de point de vue. Ce que vous avez sous les yeux, ce sont les pensées intimes de plusieurs personnalités différentes. Si vous me permettez, quelques explications… merci” Army of the Pharaohs – Agony Fires
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Rough translation from French:
“Your honor, this notebook contains written notes… Notice the spectacular changes of writing style, of tone, and of opinions. What you have in front of your eyes are intimate thoughts of many different personalities. If you’ll allow me to explain… thank you”

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7 years

I think the translation wouldn’t be “opinions” there but “perspectives” (point de vue = point of view).

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jean-loutre
9 years

The intro in french language is actually a quote from the french version of the 2003 movie ‘Identity’ by J. Mangfold.

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Before I find they IP address
And straight ghost
Them Charles Hamilton – Windows Media Player
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Translation: “I may be a computer nerd, but that means I can find your computer. So if you hate on me, I’m gonna go to your computer, find you there, and kill you.” A common theme in songs relating to internet haters

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Crazy In Love Eminem – Crazy In Love
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A rare example of Eminem singing a whole song rather than rapping, he details the difficulties of being in love with a woman that’s almost as crazy as he is.

It’s a matter of some debate who this song is for – he contrasts the subject of the song with Kim as “the wife who never divorced me.” While common readings of it is that it’s about the rap game, or about drugs, Eminem himself stated in a 2004 interview with Vanity Fair that the song draws heavily from his relationship with Kim, but is actually a fantasy of the true love he does not believe he will ever find:

I kind of like to leave it as a mystique thing, but I would say that me and Kim have been to that place before, where we’ve had a relationship like that. We’ve been together off and on, forever. […] The song is technically about… finding my dream girl that I could have this kind of relationship with but probably will never find. […] They say you only find true love once. […] I’ve dated a few famous women and gone that route, thinking that would work, and they end up being crazier than I am.

The hook is sampled from the classic rock hit “Crazy on You” by Heart.

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Eminem has said in interviews this song is about his ideal woman and is mostly based on his ex wife Kim (with few changes such as her being 24).

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technically he is rapping just not like he normally does its more sing songs rap than straight singing

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sing songy*

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He cant be talking about drugs because drugs dont have a throat that you can slit

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this has to be about ems mom

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This song is not about Kim at all, it’s about another girl clearly. He has dated other people so not everything has to be about Kim unless it’s clearly about Kim

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This song is about his ex wife Kim. He admitted it in the Rolling Stone interview he gave in 2004. Crazy in Love/Puke are songs about their love/hate relationship. Also Kim was 24 when they got married in 1999 which is an important date/event for them, he compares her to his mother and we know from interviews from his friends to his former bodyguard that they have compared Kim to his mother, ad generally the whole theme of the song is an abusive/crazy/passionate relationship that he has only had with Kim.He just vents his frustration towards Kim when he talks about the wife that never divorced him(also another clue HE CALLED HER HIS WIFE) he has only been married to Kim. The Kesia Alvarez reference is laughable at best considering she was just a side chick he dated in 1999 before he married Kim and dumped her.

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Em went for the high notes on this one😅🤣

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me and Conic and B.o.B B.o.B (Ft. Asher Roth & Charles Hamilton) – Change Gonna Come
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“Sonic” is Charles Hamilton, referring to his frequent Sonic the Hedgehog references. Bob is B.o.B.

HINT: Asher’s the not black one

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We've been pompous ever since Columbus couldn't work a compass B.o.B (Ft. Asher Roth & Charles Hamilton) – Change Gonna Come
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Christopher Columbus accidentally discovered the Americas when he tried to sail around the world. Ever since then, Americans have been stuck-up assholes. But guess what?

Christopher Columbus doesn’t give a FUCK!!

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You hallucinate, see Kanye in your dream GZA – Paper Plate
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Continuing from the last line, 50 Cent used a beef with Kanye West to market both their albums at one point. 50 Cent lost the beef due to Kanye crushing his album in sales.

GZA is implying that 50 could only dream of being on Kanye’s level.

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Get your ankles rolled while doing your two-step
Leave a Thank-You note for the crutches the Wu left GZA – Paper Plate
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The Wu-Tang Clan will run up on 50 and break his legs. However, though they’re doing barbaric things, they’re still civilized: thus, they’ll leave him a pair of crutches

At the level of metaphor, Wu left 50 Cent “crutches” for his career by pioneering hardcore NYC street rap in the 1990s, including perfecting 50’s brand of mafioso tough-talk on Only Built 4 Cuban Linx

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Turn that shit up, my Clan in Da Front want it GZA – Liquid Swords
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A reference to the song “Clan in Da Front”, GZA’s solo track from Wu-Tang Clan’s debut album Enter the Wu-Tang. GZA is also referring to the Clan itself.

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Sweet-tooth dudes stay out the candyshop GZA – Paper Plate
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Refernce to Candy Shop, a sex-rap track on The Massacre, the 2nd 50 Cent album

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