And flip it just to get these hoes another nose fix The Weeknd – Tell Your Friends
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Air Jordans are expensive basketball shoes that are becoming increasingly more popular as they become collectables. People have even been killed for them.
The Weeknd and his friend, La Mar C Taylor, used to rob people for their Jordans just to buy girls cocaine to numb their face with. Some people who use too much cocaine actually need to “fix” their nose with reconstructive surgery.
Nobody got me feelin' this way
You probably think I'm lyin', lyin'
I'm used to bitches comin' right 'way The Weeknd – Acquainted
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Even though The Weeknd has tended to not get attached to women who come his way, he’s starting to put more time into his relationship with Bella Hadid.
During an interview with The New York Times, when asked if he was “in love,” he replied:
I don’t know, to be honest with you. I don’t think so. Maybe. It’s no, it’s yes, it’s maybe. It’s [the album] about me being who I am and stepping out of my comfort zone to try to feel something else besides what I’ve been feeling the past four years.
Lay them on the fuckin' table, we got choices
And if they wanna fuck my niggas, they got choices The Weeknd – Tell Your Friends
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Contrasting the previous lines, Abel’s now successful enough where he can have any girl he chooses. By not working a typical nine to five job and making millions of dollars on music, the XO Crew can afford to smoke, drink, pop and snort whatever they want to, whenever they want to.
Nobody stoppin' us, oh, no, we destined The Weeknd – Tell Your Friends
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XO is Abel’s label and crew, many of whom are still trapping and committing crimes. While he was arrested for knocking down a cop in Las Vegas earlier in 2015, he usually lets his crew handle those situations. As he sung on “Might Not”:
Not really the type to let a nigga talk back but I'mma let it slide cause my niggas too violent
That money is the only thing I'm chasin' The Weeknd – Tell Your Friends
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Even back on Trilogy, Abel was always team no chaser—he chases after the money instead.
A “chaser” is usually a non-alcoholic drink that’s consumed directly after drinking hard liquor.
(I said woah, yah yah)
For the city
(Woah, yah yah, bitch back up off me)
You got Queen DeJ, Sean Don, straight up
Ha! It's time to boss up on everything, I'm gettin' everything DeJ Loaf (Ft. Big Sean) – Back Up
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Dej & Sean are both from Detroit. They previously collaborated on Eminem’s “Detroit vs Everybody.”
Been listening to Pusha T so much even this seems like a cocaine metaphor.
Drug dealer + quality cocaine = happy customer
Pusha T + quality music = happy listener
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The sample used for this track is very similar to the one used on GZA’s intro to ProTools, unironically called “Intromental.”
The original sample for both tracks stems from the 1976 Soul Dog song, “Can’t Stop Loving You.” The producers mainly loop the first chords of the song, sprinkling in other aspects of the instrumental throughout.
Interestingly enough, Kanye had already sampled Soul Dog’s “Can’t Stop Loving You” fifteen years ago on The Madd Rapper’s “Not The One.” Looks like Ye owes Carl Mashall at least two songs!
The guitar solo was played by Kanye West’s right hand man, Mike Dean.
The way this annotation is written implies Kanye ripped off the Intromental beat, when he had already chopped the sample in 2000 for Madd Rapper. Move the GZA reference down or remove it entirely