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Obviously, one would “feast” on beef, but in this case, “beef” means conflict between two parties. Cole is saying in the ghetto, there is so much beef between people, its hard for him to “feast” on all of it, or accept/deal with it.
Treat us like roaches, the prison's nigga infested
They hate to see the day we ain't slain, niggas invested J. Cole – Get It
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Watching cops loving car chase scenes J. Cole – Get It
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People in the hood try to emulate what they see on TV, and it gets them thrown in jail.
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People are “laid out,” meaning they are lying on the ground. J Cole grew up in a bad neighborhood in Fayetteville, NC, and he’s possibly alluding to the bad things he’s seen.
The other possible interpretation of this is a tie in with the previous line, where Cole mentions beats. DJ’s will “lay down” a beat.
I don’t think he’s talking about laying out for a tan.
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It’s been a little while since he’s put out some music, so he’s coming back to get in to the groove of making quality music.
Therapist is the man, hands down like a handstand
With a grand flow and my heart had to follow J. Cole – Can I Bus
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Hands down, Cole is the man and he kicks it like Bandhan, a character from a hindi movie.
Continuing to talk about body parts, Cole says that his heart follows what his flow was doing.
Like when I make plans to work out because everything don't always turn out Classified – 3 Foot Tall
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Class is using working out as an example of something he plans to do, but doesn’t (this is a common problem for a lot of people). He’s saying that his direction (aforementioned) helps him keeps focus and commitment, because without direction, you’re not going to follow through on what you planned.
Though everybody trying to fit in the crowd, like Where's Waldo? Classified – 3 Foot Tall
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Classified is saying that you should be living for the life you have waiting for you after death, instead of trying to fit in to the crowd.
In a literal sense, Waldo (a cartoon character seen below) would fit in with his surroundings.
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Geppetto is a character from Pinocchio; a woodcarver who carved out the wooden Pinocchio. This could be Cole’s way of calling the people in ghettos “fakers,” since Geppetto used a wooden marionette doll.
J Cole wants the fakers to know that the people who have the ill will in the ghetto are going to make wrong-doers pay.
“On the block with the HARD. Hey, that’s all they seen.”
He’s talkin' about bein' on the block with the HARD WHITE (crack cocaine).