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In therapy, the patient is usually advised to delve into their subconscious to make a safe zone when dealing with someone who has undergone traumatic events

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This is in reference to the separate romantic relationships that the above gentlemen (Kanye West & Wiz Khalifa) both shared with the video vixen Amber Rose.
Curtis’s assertion is that while Miss Amber Rose is an attractive woman with many good qualities, she is not the kind of woman or personality that you should establishing a long-term relationship with.

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Off of Poison Pen, Chino XL goes through some insecurities such as his relationship with his mom and women in general by talking to a therapist.

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This is a track from Technique’s first album where he talks about the poverty, race and monetary issues between races and in races in the face of imperialism by other factors. The name is actually taken from a book by Karl Marx, the Father of Communism.

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“Skip To My Lou” is an old children’s song and was a popular partner-stealing song in the American frontier. Pusha T is inviting anyone who wants access to a kilo or two to come partner up with him, even if that means he’s stealing associates from rival dealers. The fact that it refers to a children’s song just reinforces the song’s theme of instructing the young.

Skip to My Lou is also referring to the former street ball nickname of Rafer Alston, guard for the Orlando Magic and former street ball legend.

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The brilliant John Woo movie. Everyone knows Hardboiled is better though

Here Lupe is showing the influence of films and video games in promoting and glorifying gun violence.

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Similar to Queen’s Gambit on his previous album, GZA uses an extended metaphor throughout the entire song. This time with cars instead of NFL teams.

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Not their first commercial single like most people believe. That honor goes to “The Funeral.” “Grindin'” is their biggest single in their career thus far and has not 1 but 2 (needless) remixes on their debut album.

During an annotation session with genius, Pusha explained how the “Grindin'” instrumental was almost given to Jay Z:

Pharrell makes the beat and calls me and says if I don’t get to the studio in ten minutes he’s gonna give Jay Z the beat. And he knows that is one person that I don’t ever want to have a Pharrell beat before I hear the beat.

It’s just the cardinal rule: “Don’t do that, Pharrell.” That causes knock-down, drag-out arguments.

Since “Grindin’” I’ve always rhymed over beats that are sort of left of center.

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On what’s surely ranked as one of the best posse cuts of all time, Immortal Technique (who is partly of Peruvian heritage and was born there) and guests break down all the perspectives of the drug trade… from the original worker in the coca fields, through a long chain of officials and drug lords, up to D-Boys, who end up arrested.

The beat is inspired by a sample from the soundtrack to the movie Scarface (1983), from which the dialogue in the intro is also taken. The song also uses a sample from the 1991 gangster film New Jack City. These samples are very appropriate, because the song has an extremely cinematic, visual feel, reminiscent of a montage.

In 2014, it was revealed that the United States government was, yet again, collaborating with drug-related entities, this time, none other than the Sinaloa Drug Cartel, the world’s largest producer and distributor of cocaine. 80% of the cocaine in Chicago, for example, is Sinaloa cocaine. Read the leaked documents pertaining to this situation here on News Genius.

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Usury is the practice of lending money at unreasonably high rates of interest. This may be a reference to credit card companies and banks charging people very high interest rates. But the larger point that people are making money off of others’s suffering is descriptive of the “twisted game” of US capitalism.

Usury also makes an internal rhyme across the three lines with the opening “More than usually.”

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