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The ballad of a screwed up guy with a good girlfriend… the American love story.

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Telling a story of a man sleeping with his girlfriend’s friend, who in turn tells him that his girlfriend is not to be trusted.

This creates a trio of untrustworthy people, or as I like to call it, irony at it’s finest….

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Counting Crows delivers to us a beautiful song of failure and heartbreak.

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A better break down of the concept he mentioned in Face Paint, in which he says

Here’s my analysis:
Since the beginning I have been saying that I’m a angel
But since I accepted the ways of the world;
Money, women, I became a worldly angel
But my mother always wanted me to do it for Christ
So I think the angel inside of me is ashamed

His evil brain has brought him down from his angelic stature, making him a more worldly angel… i.e, becoming infatuated with mortality (by that I mean materialistic things, where as more “heavenly/angel” things would be seen as emotions)

E.B.A.H. is also a reference to ETAH (“Hate” spelled backwards) which was a character created by Tech’s best friend, Brian B'zle Dennis, who was the mastermind behind the group NNUTTHOUWZE along with Tech and others. Brian was murdered on Dec. 26, 2003, which left a lasting impact on Tech and much of his music. E.B.A.H was one of Tech’s many ways of honoring his best friend’s memory.

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He shows no love but he can give a chick his big dick.

He’s also saying he can love a bit than retracts that statement and says big my love will get so he’s saying he has a big heart.

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Young Fade is a Springfield, Illinois based rapper, who has been banging out great rhymes consistently since the age of 17, beginning his rap career by recording in his mothers basement.

He formed The Stick ‘Em Up Squad with fellow Illinois rappers Shmozilla, J Dubb and T Witt. After releasing two mixtapes consisting of the songs he recorded in his mothers basement (70+ songs), he took a break until 2007, when he re-emerged backed with better equipment and the studio Musik Monstaz.

After releasing a couple local hit singles on the radio, he decided a solo career would best for him and began recording with Shaw Productions.

From there, he would go on to release his first solo mixtape, Self Inflicted, followed by it’s sequel, Self Inflicted 2.

Currently, Young Fade is in the middle of recording the third part of this Self Inflicted trilogy, along with a collaboration album with Corle 2 Da, which is titled C'est La Vie.

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If you’re great in the eyes of the public (Like historic figures such as John F. Kennedy, Abraham Lincoln and Martin Luther King, JR), if you get murdered, there’s always one term the media loves to use: assassination.

Lil Wayne, at this point of his career, was also held in high regards when it came to hip-hop, possibly rivaling the before mentioned The Notorious B.I.G, who infamously started the saying “You’re nobody till somebody kills you”, in his song of the same name.

Since he’s so great at this time, he feels like somebody is going to assassinate him so they can get famous, and boldly dares them to try to do so.

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Yelawolf brings us a drug anthem straight from the heart of the south – but if you pay attention you might just catch that it’s no ordinary drug anthem.
The song samples Bob Dylan’s “Subterranean Homesick Blues” with some of the lyrics.

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Danimal Lector is a Stratford, Connecticut based rapper that has been apart of that state’s underground scene since the early 2000’s.

In the beginning of his career, he went under the name Knowledge, and his two mixtapes under that name, Deal Or No Deal and The Haze, can be found through those links

Currently he has seven mixtapes and one album: Deal or No Deal, The Haze, Silence the Lames, Danimal Rising, Pipe Dreams, Growing Pains, Bars Attack! and his debut album, Hookahs and Machetes.

Danimal Lector took a break from rapping to attend the University of New Haven, where he got his Bachelor of Arts degree in Music and Sound Engineering.

Along with rapping, he also produces, recording his music and working with other artists in his own home studio.

He has a wife and one newborn child.

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A hula-hoop is a toy that you put around your waist, and then you begin to move your waist back and forth to the left and right of you, eventually creating a circular motion for the hula hoop to revolve around.

To “run circles” around something is to be ahead of everyone, so Lil Wayne is easily ahead of everyone else in the game.

Weezy also lets us know that he will never stop running circles around the rap game and there will never be anyone like him, which is hard to argue.

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