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Reference to Biggie’s legendary track “Juicy”

No heat, wonder why Christmas missed us
Birthdays was the worst days

Just like Biggie – Beanie and his family didn’t have any money , even if it was his birthday, Christmas or at any other special day.

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He’s using “birds” here as a metaphor for girls, who is saying 50 Cent is a smooth talker.

This could also be read “I got away with words”, meaning he talks himself out of troubled situations, just like the choppas case he told us in the end of the 1st verse.

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The story is based on real events that happened during WW2, and Mike probably got the name “Kenji” from his own name - Michael Kenji Shinoda.

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“Lord” is track 3 of A$AP Ferg’s debut album Trap Lord. The track features the legendary hip-hop group Bone Thugs-n-Harmony, and the mystical, dark beat is produced Crystal Caines & Ozhora Miyagi.

Everyone delivers a solid verse, especially Bone Thugs-n-Harmony with their incredible speed and flow. It’s safe to call this track a successful posse-cut.

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Anne is Lil Wayne’s Stan, except she’s a chick, so it’s more chill.

“Dear Anne (Stan Part 2)” (originally “Anne”) was originally supposed to be on Tha Carter IV but has since then been removed from the album. Lil Wayne said in an interview with XXL that he was not a fan of “Dear Anne” and that it was originally planned to appear on Tha Carter III. On July 8, 2011, producer Swizz Beatz hinted at Wayne possibly re-recording a new version of Anne, after he had said the verses were too “old.” It samples t.A.T.u.’s “30 Minutes”—produced by Swizz Beatz.

Swizz originally made the beat many years ago, titled “Stan II,” for Eminem, but Em never used the track. Eminem also used similar word play in his track “Phenomenal” with the following lyrics “I write with the left, same hand I hold my mic with.”

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A nice simile here, as we all know cayenne pepper is very hot/spicy.

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Dr. Dre is basically resurrecting from the dead in this verse, and shows us that both he and Detox is still alive.

Yeah, right…

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Emphasizes the injustice of the internment camps, her husband died in the camp, never got out.

Like Mike has stated in an interview that this is his aunt talking, so her husband might be Mike’s uncle?

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Kenji is Mike Shinoda’s narration of a Japanese-American immigrant living with his family in L.A. during WWII. Mike explains the unfair internment of all Japanese-Americans in the area and racism following their release.

“Kenji” tells of a Japanese immigrant who, along with his family, is sent to an internment camp in the wake of the attack on Pearl Harbor. Shinoda stated in an interview that his father was born during the Second World War, and was interned alongside his family. He interviewed his father and aunt (in which excerpts were included in the song). About his aunt, he said, “She was there when people were getting pulled out of their houses, and they had absolutely nothing to do with anything [involving the war]. It’d be your average neighbor — or you — getting pulled out of your house because you were racially profiled as somebody dangerous.

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Barack Obama was the 44th president of the United States from 2009 to 2017.

Hopsin might be referring to 2Pac’s famous song “Changes,” where he rapped:

And although it seems heaven-sent
We ain’t ready to see a Black President

After the inauguration of Donald Trump in January 2017, Hopsin changed the lyrics for his live performances of the song:

Trump is president, so? What’s he represent?
Just because the nigga’s rich as fuck don’t mean he’s heaven-sent

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