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Both Nas & Kevin were born and raised in New York City

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sounds like a keeper

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MyNamesCody

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After dealing with all of the criticism from the parents, the kids, and fans, Tyler doesn’t see a reason to make music anymore. He can’t please everyone, so in order to please them he thinks it’d be best to record his time in therapy and release it.

Also, if you think about it – he recorded a session called “Bastard” in 2009 and sent everybody a link.

Considering the irony that his first three solo projects (Bastard, Goblin, and Wolf) have been centered around therapy sessions with his “shrink” Dr. TC. However, since his fans still don’t understand him and constantly complain, he has the urge to literally refrain from another album and be more straight forward with recording a literal therapy session and sending it to everyone hassling him.

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A-1 realizes the original story he wanted to tell would take a tremendous amount of bars to get out the way he wants to. Also, it would take a very long time due to A-1’s way of getting off topic

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At this point A-1 has gotten so far off course with his original story that there’s no point in going back to retell it

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Speaking on more of a political note, A-1 is saying the rich (in this case, whites) are always saying African-Americans put this poverty on themselves. When in reality, it’s influences like the picture above that help prove the white people are the ones who made ghetto areas the way they are.

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A-1 brings the listener back to when he was selling instead of getting to far ahead of himself. He wants this song to really explain his time as a dealer.

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