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Nicki Minaj (Young Money female rapper extraordinaire) has been known to wear a variety of colorful wigs:
In order words, they’ll fuck you up real bad
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Drizzy is a nickname for Drake, breakout “hip-hop” artist of 2010:
Chop’s saying that every wannabe is trying to be the next Drake
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Essence is a fashion, beauty and lifestyle magazine aimed at the female African-American demographic
Hence, black Lexus
Jada's as real as it get Jadakiss (Ft. Anthony Hamilton, Common, Nas & Styles P) – Why? (Remix)
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This song is a remix of a song off of Jada’s 2004 album, Kiss of Death
The album ended up selling 934,000 copies.
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This lyric is about the 2000 election when disputed votes in Florida were given to Bush, when a recount showed that (under certain kinds of counting assumptions) it would have gone to Gore. The Supreme Court, made up of a majority of Republican appointees, intervened to stop the recount.
Let me put some kush up in it (Breathe with me now)
Hold up, wait a minute (I see)
Let me put some kush up in it (Breathe with me now)
Hold up, wait a minute (I see)
Let me put some kush up in it (Breathe with me now)
Hold up, wait a minute (Yeah)
Let me put some kush up in it (Yeah, yeah) Dr. Dre (Ft. Akon & Snoop Dogg) – Kush
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Kush is slang for a specific type of strain of high grade marijuana, popularly marketed as “Rapper’s Weed” because of it’s popularity with rappers. The intro is a “kushed” twist on the well-known phrase, “Hold up, wait a minute, let me put some -insert noun here- up in it”.
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Throughout the song, Del portrays that voice you hear in your head. In the music video, right before he begins to rap, he busts out of Russel (the drummer)’s head.
This lyric is part of the story/mythology surrounding the fictional members of Gorillaz. Russel is possessed by the spirits of his friends, who were gunned down in a drive-by shooting outside a Brooklyn high school. Del is “out of his cage,” that is, he no longer possesses Russel.
Del is assuming the role of the ego in this verse of the song, and describing the listener’s susceptibility to it’s delusions. Here he is describing his escape, which is assumed as a ghost, or an eternal soul. There is a great amount of braggadocio in this verse. On the second verse he assumes the subconscious, or the true self. The other side of the eternal being.
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Yes, Kanye actually had diamond dentures implanted on his lower set of teeth. As he said on The Ellen Show:
It’s just certain stuff that rock stars are supposed to do, you know?
To be fair, he already had fake teeth in his mouth. The real ones were knocked out in the car accident he speaks about in “Through The Wire”. If your teeth are fake they might as well be made of diamonds… right?
Party staff baffled, askin' where her ass go Earl Sweatshirt – Earl
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Roofies, or Rohypnol, are a common date rape drug that have the effect of being paralyzed, making it very common in sexual assaults.
Dizzee Rascal is an English grime rapper. Earl uses some wordplay here to say that a person who has been slipped a roofie will become “dizzy,” and possibly, a “rascal”.
“Rascal” can also be alluding to the previous line as well.
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Reggae legend, known for his love of marijuana. Although Marley died in 1981 and Snoop Dogg was born in 1971, so I don’t know how that works – maybe he got possessed by the spirit of Marley when he was 10 or something.
“When you smoke the herb, it reveals you to yourself”
“Herb is the healing of a nation, alcohol is the destruction”
I guess he was talking about the Netflix show “Reincarnated”