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we can climb out of hell Doobley Doobie – Doobie Fury
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quote from Any Given Sunday

saying if rappers change their ways, they can reverse the damage they did to rap

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Pac and Big learned to preach it Doobley Doobie – Doobie Fury
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drawing a connection between the Beatles and Biggie Smalls and Tupac. saying without the beatles, there would be no rap music.
Also, with preaching, words and stories tend to get twisted and changed. He is saying that the Beatles layed the ground work for music and Big & Pac put their own twist on it

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Lennon said power to the people Doobley Doobie – Doobie Fury
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John Lennon first single after the Beatles

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Prestupnost' yavlyayetsya produktom obshchestvennogo izbytochnoLE Doobley Doobie – Doobie Fury
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Vladimir Lenin once said Crime is a product of social excess. So the more people, the more crime. Playing off the previous line, Funkmaster is saying that if the power is in the people’s hands, then it’ll soon go straight to crime. Kind of similar to Back to the Future II (going off of the Back to the Future references)

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the Eagles Doobley Doobie – Doobie Fury
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songs: take it easy, life in the fast lane, hotel california

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Needles Doobley Doobie – Doobie Fury
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AKA: Flea from the RHCP. he played “needles” in back to the future part 2.
basically saying Flea is in his top 10 musicians of all time

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Twenty-five years old, my mother, God rest her soul Sugar Ray – Fly
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Mark McGrath says this was a nod to Gilbert O'Sullivan’s song “Alone Again (Naturally)” in which he sings:

And at sixty-five years old
My mother, God rest her soul
Couldn’t understand, why the only man
She had ever loved had been taken

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Say my prayers, but I lost faith a long time ago (A long time ago)
Dream nightmares
I guess we're gettin' used to losin' hope (Guess we're losing hope) Post Malone – Otherside
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Post is surrendering to a pessimistic view on his old relationship.

Even in his dreams, when he is supposed to be at his happiest, he’s still haunted.

Sticking with the melancholic theme, Post interpolates the melody of Kansas' song “Dust in the Wind.”

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I feel post is looking at the more spiritual aspect here, he’s saying he’d go to God (say his prayers) but he’s without faith now ; so more like he’s lost and alone the only person who could possibly help him out of this mess , he can’t go to because he doesn’t believe (lacking faith).

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Why the cops always gotta get called?
Why you always tryna see me in trouble with the law? Joey Bada$$ – Y U DON'T LOVE ME? (MISS AMERIKKKA)
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Joey’s expressing his concerns that the police are unjustly called on black men because they may seem “suspicious”. This happened a number of times in recent American history including the case of Trayvon Martin

This also works with another aspect of the song about his relationship he has with the female “Miss Amerikkka”. His girl always tries to call the police perhaps to report a false charge of domestic abuse.

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I guess some things will never change Joey Bada$$ – Y U DON'T LOVE ME? (MISS AMERIKKKA)
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This line may be a nod to 2Pac’s “Changes”:

It ain’t a secret, don’t conceal the fact
The penitentiary’s packed, and it’s filled with blacks
But some things will never change

It’s not surprising that Joey would quote 2Pac—he’s Joey’s favorite rapper.

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