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No matter how he acted around her, he loved her just as much as she loved him, or probably more. She probably couldn’t tell because mama didn’t raise no bitch.
He didn’t wanna show his emotions or get too close to her because she might have been the same girl who would set him up in the future.

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https://twitter.com/vincestaples/status/300487807326117889

While you’re busy hating on him or trying to get at him, you could be busy getting money like him.

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She moved from N.O., possibly after Katrina.

Vince criticizes the obesity problems some face in low income housing. This granny is already has heart problems but she still continues to eat McDonald’s because she works next to it.

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Just because he’s 13, that doesn’t mean anyone is gonna be any easier on him, so he needs the gun for protection and the bigger the gun is, the more fear you put into others.

“The rush he get when he load it is one you wont understand unless you hold it and blow it”
You could infer that he has shot or shot at someone before.

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Peas & Carrots is the brand of Anwar Carrots, Casey Veggies, and Josh Peas. “Grew from the ground” meaning he has gotten bigger" Play on words with “Peas & Carrots”

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Westside tradition, pouring liquor into the ground as a sign of respect to your deceased homies.

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When you’re black and you’re getting money (esp in Cali) the police like to fuck with you.

Either shoot the nigga and keep making money, or get arrested and put on trial. Judges like to give niggas unreasonable time in prison for minor offenses. For example, Donzelly’s (another Eastside Long Beach rapper) brother has 75 years. Vince Staples seems to think the same thing.

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Politicians are the ones who are responsible for most of the bad shit that happens.

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He refers to women and bling in the same phrase, which alludes to the commodification/objectification of women in mainstream hiphop (as established as a theme earlier in the song).

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“Heat-Stroke Silence The Violence”
In California shit gets crazy when the temperature gets high. People start shooting and shit. “Heat” is slang for a gun, so when the heat “strokes” (shoots) people calm down. Like how when theres a huge brawl and someone shoots a gun into the air, everything calms down.

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