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When you go out of range of a cell phone tower, you’ll often find yourself wandering around, randomly holding up your phone, praying to find just one measly bar

While phones search for signals, Wale searches for his voice, what makes him unique. I’ve heard good things about T-Vocal

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When rappers tried to start something with Talib, he didn’t quiver with fear; he just laughs it off, because he knows he’s always got lyrical superiority on his side.

Kweli also uses his wordplay to call the people who want to beef with him “corny”, referring to corned beef.

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Apologize to your eardrums before listening to this verse

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Don C is Kanye’s former DJ, tour manager and current co-manager. Seeing someone close to him have a kid has convinced him that having one of his own might not be that bad of an idea in the future.

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The Plan B form of emergency contraception is available without a prescription for women 17 and older; all the potential children Kanye might have one day added to his last will and testament will never come into existence. Under common law a grantee in a will must be “in esse” (alive).

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The topic of contraception and abortion is fairly well-trodden ground in the rap genre; fellow G.O.O.D Music artist Common delivered his own masterful take on the subject in “Retrospect for Life.”

All the times you bust, those were each chances to have a kid. As a result, they’re dead, but more like “murder”, in that their wrongful death makes them ghosts that haunt him still – yet another glance into Ye’s madness.

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Hov had the same sentiments in “Welcome to the Jungle”. Kanye plays off the double meaning of curseobscenity is another word for swearing.

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This continues the album’s theme of mixing religious imagery with wordly pleasures. Kanye replaces the Father, Son, and Holy Ghost with booze, girls, and weed, – and feels he should be rewarded with this new Trinity for creating such an incredible beat. A little blasphemous, yes, but he’s still not going to hell.

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Kanye does it for the dudes that keep it trill, but also for all those sexy ass females out there. Kanye has struggled with staying faithful in the past, probably because he views “she was too fine to say no” as a valid excuse to cheat.

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Kanye plays with the term “birthday suit” (meaning naked) – stating she’s in that state of dress because he has “cake” (money), so there is cash (“crumbs”) all over the floor. And of course, the piece-de-résistance is a porn-style facial.

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