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Takeover” was the infamous diss track from Jay-Z directed to both Nas and Mobb Deep.

Jay-Z was president of Def Jam at the time this record came out. President also suggests the exercise of power, military coups, etc., hence the wordplay with “takeover.”

For the next few bars, the instrumental from “Takeover” are heard in the background, making the line “this ain’t the Takeover” ironic.

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The Amish, being a pretty devout sect of Christianity, often use biblical names for their children; Jebediah and Ezekiel are prime examples of such.

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Most likely referring to the show, I Want to Work for Diddy, a show in which contestants competed in competitions to gain a spot as his assistant. Add to the fact Diddy is an important man, so his assistant is always busy and running, like Los' girl.

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His friend Mali got a large sum of money from his fathers death. This lead to him gaining all sorts of popularity and basically becoming the big shot in his school. Basically landing him into the “good life” that so many of us strive for.

As Ye' learns later on, the “good life” isn’t all it’s cracked up to be

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K'naan’s here to explain to us about the tragedies and hardships he’s had to go through, maybe you can take something out of it.

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Referring to his two mixtapes, The Come Up, and The Warm Up. Next he’s going to blow up.

Cole does blow up on his next mixtape, Friday Night Lights on the song “Blow Up”:

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The living conditions in Africa are so terrible that thousands of kids die everyday, K'naan is lucky to have made it to adulthood.

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K'naan always dreamt of making it big one day, in whatever area he could when he was a kid in Somalia. His dreams drove him to achieve success.

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A Chuck Wagon was a wagon used to carry food and supplies while the settlers were traveling west. By this Pusha is referring to how his car is always carrying the goods(cocaine). Most of these wagons were heavy, so 12 horses would be enough to pull the wagon.

12 horses may also mean a V-12 engine. A V-12 is referred to later on by Ab Liva

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As a Five Percenter, GZA doesn’t eat pork.

This line also refers to him not wanting to believe or live by what the 10% is trying to tell him. To expand on this, the official 5 Percenter belief is that

Ten percent of the people of the world know the truth of existence, and those elites opt to keep 85 percent of the world in ignorance and under their controlling thumb

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