The son of the slain Black Panther Party leader takes aim at Hova over a line from the "Watch the Throne" track.
Them hoes coming in a baker's dozen
Claiming they was with me when they know they really wasn't Kanye West (Ft. CyHi, JAY-Z, Pusha T, RZA & Swizz Beatz) – So Appalled
Claiming they was with me when they know they really wasn't Kanye West (Ft. CyHi, JAY-Z, Pusha T, RZA & Swizz Beatz) – So Appalled
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Unlike your usual dozen, a baker’s dozen is one more; thirteen. “Bakers Dozen” is also the name of a Mother Goose nursery rhyme book. In this case, Pusha is the baker and he’s most likely got “pies” in the oven. A “pie” is a kilo of cocaine.
Women try to convince others (and themselves) that they were with Pusha before the fame. While having twelve “hoes” is absurd by any means, Pusha lets everyone know his level of fame is a cut above the rest.
Kanye used a similar line in his verse on Drake’s track “Forever”:
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Ye and Jay want to stand on the mountain top. Note the “we” is ambiguous – Ye could be alluding to himself and Jay only, or to the entire black race.
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Texas rapper Chad “Pimp C” Butler of the feted group UGK died in his sleep from a combination of sleep apnea and his promethazine with codeine. He famously appeared on Jay’s song Big Pimpin'.
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Hov is dressed up in expensive suits, but isn’t surrounded by enough blacks to properly celebrate his success. Likely a reference to a song of the same name.
I feel the pain in my city wherever I go
314 soldiers died in Iraq, 509 died in Chicago JAY-Z & Kanye West – Murder to Excellence
314 soldiers died in Iraq, 509 died in Chicago JAY-Z & Kanye West – Murder to Excellence
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These are 2008 figures: The Associated Press counted at least 314 U.S. soldiers died in Iraq, down from 904 in the previous year, while the Chicago Tribune reported 509 homicides in Chicago (a 15% percent increase compared to 2007).
This isn’t the first time Kanye has referenced the Chicago death count in a song.
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Jay Z was born the same day that Chicago-based Black Panther activist Fred Hampton was shot at point blank in his apartment by Chicago police, in conjunction with the FBI: December 4th, 1969.
This line was supposed to be paying homage to Hampton, but his son, Fred Hampton Jr. took offense to Jay-Z not referring to it as an assassination (though the next line clearly implies this).
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Tony locked up, let freedom ring
Ace Hood (Ft. Beanie Sigel, Busta Rhymes, Pusha T & Styles P) – Go N Get It Remix
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Tony was The Clipse former manager. Anthony “Geezy” Gonzalez was found guilty of drug trafficking and sentenced to 32 years in lock up. This arrest gave Pusha a significant boost in the rap game with his cocaine rhymes now coming out as truth.
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Probably a rap first: a reference to Plato’s Euthyphro.
The Euthyphro dilemma arises when Socrates asks Euthyphro:
For sake of argument, Socrates and Euthyphro agree that the first is true, but Socrates argues that if the second is also true and something is pious because the gods love it, then the first and second together would yield a self-perpetuating cycle.
The dialectic gets at some of the central questions of morality (sovereignty, omnipotence, freedom of the will, morality without God) and has implications not only for metaphysics and theology, but also for epistemology.
Could state that the Christian answer is that God is Piety itself and therefore what he wills is pious.