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Most rappers back in the day were wearing either grills or fronts and they showed them off proudly. These became almost a power symbol for rappers to show their level and are still worn by some today. Rapper Paul Wall even has his own shop.
Note Isaiah saying diamond and then using words like “king” and “great” in the next. Kanye is almost like a modern day version of this.
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Bat = Peace Sign
Ball = Hoes
Still referencing baseball: Just like how you hit a baseball with a bat, he is “hitting” women with a peace sign. The peace sign is a hand sign for saying goodbye, so after he has sex with them he tells them it’s time for them to go.
Especially since his girl already looks good.
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If they do not have awards they are not even worth mentioning to Hit-Boy, he won his first grammy for producing Niggas in Paris.
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If you listen you hear a voice in the background that says “respect your elders,” Travis responds by saying, he doesn’t give a fuck about the commandments his elders made because there is new people running the show now.
Also Travis is a part of the new generation of rappers, he was apart of the XXL Magazine’s freshman list. in 2013 and was on the freshman cover.
Race don't mean a fucking thing the second that I flow Logic – One
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Logic is half-white half-black, but when you first see him he looks like a white man.
There is a stereotype of white man that they can’t flow or have any sense of rhythm, Logic plays on that by saying once he raps (flows) he’s going to shoot down that assumption/stereotype down.
