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The groovy production utilises swingy horns and handclaps. Watch Questlove breakdown the drumming by James Gadson on this record below at 1h 31 minutes.

http://youtu.be/23e1GbatgtQ?t=1h31m34s

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The only released song with the orginal Soulquarians on the same track. Dilla played the bass line, Questlove drums, James Poyser organs with D´Angelo on the marimba and of course Common rapping. Created from merely playing around – the jam session creates an afrobeat athmosphere in the essence of the legendary Fela Kuti.

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He embodies what his critics actaully idolizes who only wants the cliche´s in rap and controversy like F tossing the sallads of all different kinds of women.

Note the play on ice-cream: these girls are like all the different ice-cream flavors of Häagen-Dazs.

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Fashawn usually let his music speak for itself, which isn’t very effective in this social-media day and age where it’s all about the controversies, gossip and trends. He obliges by bragging over his guns and large package, although all this causes the industry to get stagnated.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Sv063nzZIEk

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Claiming that the Jaguar model F-Type is named after him – Fashawn from Fresno.

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Herpes DNA virus with a large family, most noteably infecting your lips or genitals. After initial infection, the viruses become latent and resides lifelong in the sensory nerve cell bodies. Like herpes Fashawn keeps on recurring, infact it´s been 5 years since his last album and even Fashawn himself thought he was done with it at one point – before he knew Nas was interested in signing him and getting a record deal with Mass Appeal.

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Anime is a hugely popular style of animation that originated in Japan, and known for its hyper-exaggerated and unrealistic style.

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God’s Trombones is a book of poems, written by James Weldon Johnson, where one of the poems begins with the line, “Young Man, Young man – your arm is too short to box with God.”

We are too puny for God’s true greatness, and shouldn’t ever attempt fighting against Him. This is a shot at all wack rappers, saying it’s better for them to just quit, and leave it to the people that are capable. Slaughterhouse are the gods of rap.

Nas also used a similar line on “You’re Da Man”:

Your arms too short to box with God

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gRWG0mg3tHE

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Somehow the rap game reminds me of the crack game

Here he personifies the trap/rap game as girls. Since he dribbles into both worlds, at the same time, it’s as if he’s having a threesome. The ‘menage’ is also a pun on the word “manege” which is the main stage in a circus, hence the circus analogy.

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Willie B produced “03' Adolescence.” He is a member of TDE’s production team, Digi+Phonics, alongside fellow California based record producers Dave Free, Sounwave and Tae Beast.

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