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Heat = Gun. Black Thought rolls with guns (heat) just as Wade, Lebron James and Chris Bosh roll together as part of the Miami Heat, Miami’s professional basketball team. Dangerous mofo, don´t test him!

The Roots, the group which Black Thought is a member of, have a song with Talib Kweli called “Rolling With Heat.”

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NR6jtfxsjHc

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Cam is referencing 2 Chainz’s 2012 smash hit “I’m Different”.

Phillip Drummond is the old man in the 1978-1986 TV show Diff'rent Strokes, named from the expression “different strokes for different folks.”

Strokes could also refer to handjobs, as the next line contains a reference to beating. AND he could also mean “2 Chainz’s drummer”, seeing as how a drummer also deals in strokes.

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Kishi describes the sun as engendering the stars. Oddly enough, the sun is itself a star, so this is a contradiction.

However, the sun is generally described as giving light to the world, so he could be saying that, to their de-light, the sun allowed them to see the stars.

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Spit Gemz is an assassin for the notorious Lo (Polo) Life gang of NYC, which you can read about here:

http://www.classicnystreetgangs.com/thelolifes.htm

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Lead singer of The Bird and the Bee, aka “The Bird”

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Controolll! Also named the #2 rap song of the year on RG’s Top 100 Rap Songs of 2013 list

Full lyrics:
http://rapgenius.com/Big-sean-control-lyrics

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This gem was the second single from Oxymoron. Full lyrics below:

http://rapgenius.com/Schoolboy-q-collard-greens-lyrics

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