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I could understand when they say im not the best, Kid Berg – Gettin' Jiggy

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i get it, i know i’m not the best so i can’t act like i am

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I'm the young grinding shining like a diamond would Kid Berg – Gettin' Jiggy

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i am the young hard worker, shining like a diamond does

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when you hunt for treasure don't find gold
You could lose your mind or you could find your soul Tha Joker (USA) (Ft. Big K.R.I.T. & Tito Lopez) – Can't Change

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When you’re going through a change in life, it’ll either make you go crazy or help you really learn about yourself.

Pressure either busts pipes or makes diamonds

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Out here on grindmode on a tight rope with a blindfold Tha Joker (USA) (Ft. Big K.R.I.T. & Tito Lopez) – Can't Change

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He’s working; comparing the grind to walking blindfolded on a tight rope, which is a very tricky and delicate situation. Any mistake and you’re done.

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I know you probably thought I forgot where I came from
Cause most of these niggas get rich and then they change up Tha Joker (USA) (Ft. Big K.R.I.T. & Tito Lopez) – Can't Change

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Many people often complain of rappers getting rich & changing. Tha Joker put a play on the words “rich” & “change” here but also kept to the original line.

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And while y'all are rolling doobies
I be in my bedroom scoring movies Tyler, The Creator – Domo23

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While you spend your time smoking, he’s making movie/video soundtracks – just like the music video for Sam Is Dead.

And TV deals…ever seen an episode of Loiter Squad?

Even if he wanted too, he probably couldn’t smoke, due to his asthma

Every album is a soundtrack to the movie in my head

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2 years

I think that he was talking about making music for the grinch movie, since movies take a long time to make. The creators probably reached out to Tyler early.

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jhuang29

4 years

With the with release of The Grinch (2018), Tyler has, indeed, been confirmed to have been scoring movies.

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8 years

This could also mean that while you’re smoking, Tyler is in his bedroom having sex and filming it. Some people refer to this as “making movies”.

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Dying
Is an art, like everything else.
I do it exceptionally well. Sylvia Plath – Lady Lazarus

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Dying is no less a skill than anything else in life. The speaker has attempted it a few times and now considers herself exceptional, a pro (although she’s failed twice). She feels that suicide is easy enough to do, but it’s doing it “theatrically” that makes it great art.

Sure enough, Plath’s eventual exit at age 30 (leaving out food and milk for her sleeping kids, putting her head in her oven and turning on the gas–a gesture with overtones of both fairy tales and the Holocaust) has become one of the most notorious deaths in literary history.

Note, though, that the speaker doesn’t just say that dying should be “theatrical,” but that it should be a “theatrical / Comeback.” This would seem to suggest that suicide should be faked or eluded in some way. Some evidence suggests that Plath expected to survive her final suicide attempt.

It’s possible that these lines are meant to evoke more than literal suicide. “Dying” could represent depression, an emotional death, and “to do it in a cell” or “to do it and stay put” might suggest the alienating effects of depression. If so, the speaker sees that as too “easy.” She believes depression should lead to a “Comeback" and, as the last stanza suggests, a vengeful retaliation.

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Dying is no less a skill than anything else in life. The speaker has attempted it a few times and now considers herself exceptional, a pro (although she's failed twice). She feels that suicide is easy enough to do, but it's doing it "theatrically" that makes it great art.

Sure enough, Plath's eventual exit at age 30 (leaving out food and milk for her sleeping kids, putting her head in her oven and turning on the gas--a gesture with overtones of both fairy tales and the Holocaust) has become one of the most notorious deaths in literary history.

Note, though, that the speaker doesn't just say that dying should be “theatrical,” but that it should be a “theatrical / Comeback.”  This would seem to suggest that suicide should be faked or eluded in some way. [Some evidence suggests](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sylvia_Plath#Suicide) that Plath expected to survive her final suicide attempt.

It’s possible that these lines are meant to evoke more than literal suicide. “Dying” could represent depression, an emotional death, and “to do it in a cell” or “to do it and stay put” might suggest the alienating effects of depression. If so, the speaker sees that as too “easy.”  She believes depression should lead to a “Comeback" and, as the last stanza suggests, a vengeful retaliation.

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Alicia

5 years

she also breaks “It’s the theatrical” and “Comeback in broad day” as the last and first line of the stanza which should be read as one line. Visually creating a gap which could be a symbol for the attempted suicide. She alludes her self the theatrical nature of a “good” suicide, the art that is created from it. The last two lines of the next stanza could also allude to some form of high from it “That knocks me out, there is a charge”. Knocked out in a haze of an adrenaline charge? I could be reaching but to me it would make sense.

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5 years

There is a show of bravado (false confidence) again as the speaker is actually not as confident as she portrays herself to be, showing instability of her mind.

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5 years

Dying in the speaker’s perspective is a means of transforming/possibility of rebirth

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7 years

Note the repetitive structure of the next three stanzas, with the syntactic parallels — ‘I do it so it feels’ and ‘It’s easy enough to do’. Apart from emphasis, there is something mocking about these simple, child-like repetitive phrases.

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The D, the P, the G to C Snoop Dogg (Ft. Tha Dogg Pound) – Don't Be Foolish

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