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This is a play on the word Soy. In spanish, Soy means “I am”. So if you translate it it means “I am not the choice, I’m bad milk, drink it”. soy is also a type of milk, so it can be interpreted both ways. Tyler’s songs are very explicit (his album is titled Bastard) so he is poetically rephrasing the previous line.
Ron Burgandy would agree that soy milk was a bad choice.
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Jeffery Dahmer was a serial killer known for masturbating on the bodies he slaughtered. He was gay and mostly killed Asian and African Americans.
Also deranged play on the Bible’s “From the Hands of God”
To struggle impatiently, to fret and chafe, when suffering comes on us, is the danger to which we are exposed when we do not accept it as from the hands of God.
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The Buick LeSabre is/was a favorite of on duty police detectives.
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Redman goes by “Funk Doctor Spot.” Roni Size was born Ryan Williams and is a British record producer and DJ, who came to prominence in 1997 as the founder and leader of Reprazent, a drum and bass collective. Roni produced this track.
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A spin on an old adage “don’t look a gift horse in the mouth”, which means that you should never scrutinize a gift for flaws for fear of appearing ungrateful. In this case, André warns his critics not to bash his gift of gab because he is trying to help the world through his lyrics.
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All the bass in this track will inevitably strain the equipment.
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Either the violent sex or the whiplash from riding shotgun with Red is gonna have you in the chiropractor’s office tomorrow morning.
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Here, Red is paying omage to the Jungle (drum & bass) beat of this track.
Jungle = type of electronic dance music first made popular in the mid-1990s. The genre is characterized by fast breakbeats (typically between 160–190 bpm, occasional variation is noted in older compositions), with heavy bass and sub-bass lines.
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Venture capital history lesson, kids:
50 Cent formed an investment vehicle that took a 10% stake in Glaceau. Said vehicle received its 10% stake in exchange for 50’s endorsing Vitamin Water (and subsequently allowing Glaceau to create the grape-flavored “Formula 50” around him).
After The Coca-Cola Company bought Glaceau for $4.1 billion, 50’s investment vehicle received a $400 million paycheck and 50 himself retained over $100 million after taxes.
“Quarter water” was a 6 or 8 oz plastic bottle of flavored water. It was affordable for kids in the urban areas as it costs a mere 25 cents.
I think it’s worth noting his skillful use of alliteration and consonance in these lines (and the following one), in this case the use of /b/ and /k/ sounds:
I took quarter water sold it in bottles for 2 bucks; Coca-Cola came and bought it for billions, what the fuck? Have a baby by me baby, be a millionaire