So many people focus on hate nowadays. People literally wake up and WANT haters, simply because it makes them feel popular or famous. Fuck that. I been popular since high school…gimme the love.

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The way I was raised, I was always taught the usual roundup of bullshit that young black men are told. Move strong and silent, don’t ask for help, don’t show love, etc. A conversation with my mother as I got older always stuck with me, though, where she told me that my pride could get me killed since I never tried to ask for help, even when at my lowest. From that point, I allowed myself to be more open to people in general.

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At the end of the day, I just hope that my music can be an outlet for anyone dealing with the everyday struggle, and hopefully it can guide someone from being caught up in life’s bullshit to achieving greater.

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On online messages boards, most users have avatars (or “avis” for short) and signatures (or “sigs” for short) that contain short messages and pictures to add to their personality and messages of their posts.

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Kanye signed Common to G.O.O.D. Music. Also has a single called “Good Life” featuring T-Pain. Slight wordplay.

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On April 15, 2013, the annual Boston Athletic Marathon was interrupted by two bombings near the finish line. This line was just to shed light on my outlook of the situation, wishing I could save the victims.

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This line is written in pure irony. You would think that something that happens constantly is normal, but there’s really nothing normal about murder. No matter the circumstances, it’s always pretty fucked up.

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I was raised in Prince George’s County, Maryland, or PG County for short. It happens to be directly outside of Washington, DC, where I was born. The DC/DMV area is known for the crime rate/drug sales and high pregnancy/STD rates, so I used that as a double entendre with “keep the D in it” and “never learned to pull out”.

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If you send out an email and put the addresses in the BCC field (rather than To or CC), it blocks out the email addresses so people who receive can’t tell who else it was sent to. This was a pseudo-reference, since you would still see the sender, of course. I’m weird and I do things like that sometimes when rhyming.

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While most only give you the surface and hide their imperfections, I don’t mind baring it all for the world to see and gather their own opinions on me.

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