Just without the yards, and nice adjacent parks Wale (Ft. Lupe Fiasco & Rick Ross) – Poor Decisions
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A “house of cards” is a house that is always on the brink of collapse. But in the ghetto, most people can’t even afford to live in a house with a yard regardless of how unstable it is, because they live in an apartment in the middle of the hood. This means they have to deal with all of the disfunction and none of the benefits that come from owning a house.
And knowing that Lupe is politically minded and often sneaks references into his lyrics, there’s a good chance that he’s referencing the popular show House of Cards, a political drama revolving around the House of Representatives.
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The Metatron Cube is a geometric figure.
All of this ties into the concept of sacred geometry. Like a tetrahedron, the Metatron cube is supposed to describe the flow of energy and emotion, except the Metatron is more OG. So two (deuce = french for two) Metatron cubes would be even MORE badass!
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Mewling and puking in the nurse’s arms; William Shakespeare – The Seven Ages of Man ("All the world's a stage")
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Mewling is the small weak noise that a cat makes.
The first stage of life is that of a little baby who succeeds in getting everyone’s attention by alternately crying and vomiting in the arms of his caretaker.
In Jacques' view, even the start of life is filled with dissatisfaction.
Up to this time the word “puke” meant a brownish fluid. This is the first instance of “puking” as a newly coined word; a verb. Shakespeare was responsible for many new words entering the English language, and this is one example. Puke has come to be synonymous with vomit but in this sense, puking might also be the watery fecal discharge that is common to infants.
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1962
The Ole Miss riot was fought between Southern segregationist civilians and government forces after James Meredith became the first black student to enroll at the University of Mississippi.
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1963
Cardinal Giovanni Montini is elected to the papacy and takes the papal name of Paul VI. In the same year he visited John F. Kennedy, who was the first Catholic President at that time.
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The teepee is a conical tent usually associated with Native Americans. When you get poor enough to be out on the cold streets looking for shelter, even a small cloth tent can be viewed as a full and proper house.
This line ties into the the card metaphor started in the previous lines. In poker a Full House is a hand that contains three matching cards of one rank and two matching cards of another rank. Its a rare hand that comes to the more fortunate players.
In addition, the word “tepee” can also be heard as “TP”, the acronym for toilet paper, which plays off of the preceding line that dissembles the word “bullshit.” Bullshit and toilet paper is a pretty natural progression.
Bonus: “TP” also forms a double entendre in its own line, as many pranksters enjoy throwing numerous rolls of toilet paper all over neighboring families' residences, or, “Full Houses.” Excuse an additional toilet paper pun: Lupe wiped the floor with this one.
TP could also stand for Triple-Pair, as in a full house.