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ANTHM refers to this line from Eminem’s song “Stan”.
Stan’s character is that of an obsessed fan (thus the origin of the hip-hop meme of “stanning”), who ultimately kills himself, his wife, and their unborn baby simply because Eminem wasn’t writing back.
This line states that rapppers are acting crazy for the tiniest of things. This is most likely due to their limited vision of what’s important. Is it more important to have substancial goods and wealth, or good music with a positive message to it?
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In the biographical book Prodigal Genius: The Life Of Nikola Tesla he is portrayed as a meticulous dresser
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He is metaphorically saying he is having sex with your girl! The “train” imagery has been used many times before, notably in Hitchcock’s famous movie North By Northwest (1959).
You can see the brief, final scene HERE
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Straight to business: it’s “multiplication” time!
Another square root of a three
Has quietly come waltzing by, Kumar – The Square Root of 3
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For nine could thwart this evil trick,
With just some quick arithmetic Kumar – The Square Root of 3
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In the previous verse, Edison said that if he hadn’t invented the light bulb, the record, ect there would be no rap battle. In the video, we see Tesla turns the lights back on with Edisons light bulb, gesturing at it (“touch me with this?”), and then summons lightning to illuminate the battle.
What is meant by this is to show the insignificance of Edison and his inventions. If Edison hadn’t been there, someone else would’ve most likely invented everything he did, and when compared to Tesla’s dreams of global free energy, Edison’s inventions and contributions are quite insignificant.
It’s fine
Tesla also to show ac was safe sat in a room with electricity surrounding him
After Tesla and Westinghouse won bid to electrify Worlds Columbian Exposition over Edison, he forbidden them to use light bulb that was his patent. So Tesla designed new light bulb in less than six month’s, much better than Edison’s one, for Exposition purposes. That was first long lasting bulb similar like we use today, and that is bulb that Tesla is holding in this part of the song, stating that after Edison forbidden him to use his bulb, he invented his own one, much better.
In fact, Edison did not ‘invent’ any of the things he boasts about in the previous line. The light-bulb patent was bought from Canadian inventors Henry Woodward and Matthew Evans in 1879. Moreover, historians have discovered at least 22 different versions of the incandescent light-bulb prior to Edison ‘perfecting’ it. In regards to sound, Emile Berliner invented a working ‘carbon microphone’ within a month of Edison doing the same, and the patent was awarded to Edison only after a lengthy legal battle. As for film, the first working motion-picture camera was developed by Louis LePrince in 1888, even though the first patent in the United States was, yes, awarded to Edison in 1891.
Tesla is basically stating that Edison’s boast is empty, since if Edison did not perfect the light-bulb, the carbon microphone, or the motion picture camera, someone else would have done so eventually.