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Quik all that other shit, thats just other shit
Love is love, we ain't even gotta discuss this shit
The part that's sick G? Joell Ortiz (Ft. Slaughterhouse) – Brothers Keeper
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Joey responds to Joell’s reasoning as to why he didn’t step in with the beef between Joe and Raekwon, saying that it’s love.

Note just like Joell called Joe ‘Jump off’ and ‘Mouse’, Joe calls Joell by his old stage name ‘Quik’ showing their history.

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Of course she's wondering why
Only three years old
Dad's gone again
Don't know when
We'll all be back home together Cog – Bird of Feather
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Flynn’s daughter was 3 years old during the 8 month recording process in America, with the band separated from their families in Australia

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[Hook: Flynn Gower]
But I'm only trying to make it better
Is there no other way
No other way to go
And I'm only trying to make it better
Is there no other way
When your so far away
I feel I'm paralysed Cog – Bird of Feather
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Bird of Feather discusses the difficulties Flynn encountered due to being separated from his family and home. Sharing Space was recorded over 8 months in America, distancing the band members from their hometown of Bondi, Sydney Australia.

Flynn left his partner and 3-year old daughter home during the process and contemplates if working towards a better future is worth sacrificing the present.

Flynn: “That’s the heart of the song there – that conundrum that faces us all. Everyone is having to work harder and longer, and in most cases both parents, just to get by. It’s a consequence of the global predicament that everyone sees less of each other."

There’s another dimension: it’s also a reference to the political side of Cog’s music.

Flynn sees the music as an attempt to call the world’s attention to problems (hence the name of the album name “sharing space”). In other words, by singing and telling the story, he’s trying to make the world a better place for his daughter, but at the same time it comes at the cost of spending time with her.

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No party's like a house party, yeah Slaughterhouse – Party
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A quick description of a house party from Slaughterhouse’s Frat House

Titty in my left hand
Drunk as a freshman on his tenth keg stand
Got a sophomore, all jaw, give me drunk head
Roommate joined in, climbing down from the bunk bed

Joell also plays off the group’s name; no party’s like a Slaughterhouse party.

Joe Budden has a reputation for throwing the BIGGEST house parties

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It was like winnin' a used mink Eminem (Ft. Rihanna) – The Monster
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A mink is basically a high-class ferret, with fur used for luxury clothing and rugs.

A used mink is ‘bittersweet’, it’s a tainted prize–Em made it, but he sacrificed a lot to get there.

Rest assured that Eminem did in fact say “mink”: it says so in the digital booklet. It also fits the rhyme scheme: “mink,” “shrink,” “think.”

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7 years

But it’s still a mink coat, which is very expensive. So it still has some value. Therefore making it bittersweet.

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A used mink as in a used mink coat. As in it was like winning an old tattered and matted up fur coat

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Then they put you on a single with the same niggas
On them other singles man ya'll just a bunch of lame niggas Crooked I – Against All Odds
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A song gets popular and labels push for their artists to try and recreate it, this turns into a ‘track-list’ battle where your album is rated on the features you pull

Exhibit A-
Drake ft. 2 Chainz and Big Sean- All me
Exhibit B-
Pusha T ft. 2 Chainz and Big Sean- Who I am

As Crook stated-
Don’t ask me who featured on my album, why how come?
Cuz nigga I’m featured on my album

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Looking like you in the navy with a cold
Cause they dicks so far up your asshole you're sneezing semen Crooked I – Against All Odds
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Crooked discusses ‘getting f*cked’ by your label with wordplay

A person in the Navy with a cold is a sneezing seaman

Crooked has used a similar line before-

And I’m still rated X, stick my dick so far in a bitch’s throat
It’ll come out the other side and turn a blowjob into anal sex

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Also the navy are renowned for having sex with each other

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[Verse 2: Joe Budden] Shady Records (Ft. Eminem, Slaughterhouse & Yelawolf) – Shady CXVPHER
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Never one to shy away from the truth, Joey delivers personal lyrics with not-so-subtle frustration towards the management side of rap for putting album promotion before his family’s needs. Peep his verse from “Gone” for similar unfiltered thoughts to his label.

Joe contextualised the verse during a 2015 WatchLOUD interview.

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Crown Run The Jewels (Ft. Diane Coffee) – Crown
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Christopher R. Weingarten claims in Rolling Stone that Mike is actually rapping about himself in this song. Note the 6/8 time signature.

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9 years

Actually it’s 6/8 (counted one-and-uh, two-and-uh). The measures consist of six eighth-notes each. The eighth-notes are subdivided into two sets of three, which is why it might sound like ¾ at first.

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Josh
9 years

He’s rapping about the parallels between joining a religion (Killer Mike) and joining a gang (El-P).

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8 years

J is correct, the phenomenon is known as a hemiola.

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Dohn Jarnielle
8 years

that’s not what a hemiola is a hemiola is a polyrhythm of a 3 feel rhythm (like triplets) over a two feel rhythm (like quarters). stay woke.

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r
8 years

na man original description is correct. 4/4 beat with constant 8th note triplets on the hats. snare’s on the 3 of each bar, not on the 1 of each second bar like how 6/8 would be.

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it’s not 6/8, the description is right, but i don’t feel like it’s noteworthy that the song is in a standard time signature.

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Trade It All Joe Budden (Ft. Emmany) – Trade It All
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A solo cut by Budden.
This track was listed in a 2013 playlist of Joe’s upcoming solo album ‘All Love Lost’.

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