Talib Kweli and frequent collaborator/producer Hi-Tek re-imagined the classic offering “Four Women,” originally a song by Nina Simone off her own 1966 LP Wind Is the Wind, for their own joint album Reflection Eternal: Train of Thought

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It is an unusual artifact in hip hop history in that it genuinely and respectfully imagines and spins a narrative each verse for four individual women, either close to Kweli or under his observation, in keeping with the original Nina Simone song

Note, too, that this re-allusion to Nina Simone helps bring Shad’s own track full circle to the first verse here, which also overtly mentioned Nina Simone as his “type” of woman

While not exactly categorized under the “Christian rap” label, Shad is openly honest about his religious faith in much of his material

Actress best known for her role of ditzy Kelly Bundy in Married…With Children

A reference to the Tribe Called Quest hip-hop staple “Bonite Applebum,” an ode to females with the backside blessing of an “apple bottom”

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Tina Fey is a comedienne best known for the “smart humor” she employs in her history with such popular shows like Saturday Night Live and 30 Rock

And, might I add, she’s admittedly quite hot

Here, Shad refers to the Geena Davis-driven baseball film In A League of Their Own, which also costarred Tom Hanks, Rosie O'Donnell, and Madonna

This line ties into the last. Checkers, a simple game, is being compared to selling out. Chess, a more complex game, is being compared to hardwork, which takes skill, planning, and time. B.o.B is playing chess in this rap game (staying true to oneself), not checkers (selling out).

The line is also a reference to the vast hip-hop collective founded by B.o.B’s friend and labelmate Lupe Fiasco, “All City Chess Club”, of which B.o.B himself is a member. B.o.B had used a similar line in the All City Chess Club song “We Beamin'”

A reference to Kanye’s sleeper hit from “Graduation”, “Can’t Tell Me Nothing” and to “Good Life.”

He’s saying the tint is as dark as Kinta Kunta better known as Kunta Kinte from the show “Roots”