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My hand hurting like I'm writing ten essays Pac Div – No Superman
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Ten essays is a lot of work to do, so if you’re writing ten essays, your hand might start cramping up and hurting. Like has a lot of ideas that he needs to express through his music.

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Niggas got stripes like, Tony the Tiger Ras Kass – Anything Goes
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Stripes is a slang term for involvement or acceptance in a criminal organazation.

Tony the Tiger is on the Frosted Flakes box, and being a flake means you cannot be trusted.

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But niggas got strikes like Orel Hershiser Ras Kass – Anything Goes
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Orel Hershiser used to be a major league pitcher for the Dodgers who holds the Major League record for most consecutive scoreless innings pitched, pitching 59 consecutive innings without giving up a run.

The guys Kass refers to have done things to discount them, getting strikes against them.

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Without Christ your normal man is
A boy in a man's body like Tom Hanks in "Big" 116 (Ft. Andy Mineo, Derek Minor, KB, Lecrae, Sho Baraka, Tedashii & Trip Lee) – Man Up Anthem
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Without God it is like a mind not yet grown, yet people think that person is mature and well taken care of.

Also references the movie Big, where a boy wakes up as an adult

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And make all these mother fuckers look easy like it's some staples shit Cam Meekins – Sentences
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Reference to the “That was easy” button, a Staples marketing tool
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3YmMNpbFjp0

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I know you know what I mean The xx – Angels
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Croft and her partner don’t need to speak to understand each other. This is possibly related to the line before, assuming ‘a silent devotion’ means that one of them hasn’t confessed their love.

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Silent devotion meaning they can’t speak on their love because they r gay that’s y she says u no what I mean

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So meet me in the trap; it's going down MellowHigh – Bitches
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A trap. is a house that people sell drugs out of that is usually not theirs.

Also, The Trap is Syd the Kid’s and Taco’s house that they use for recording.

And a reference to Young Joc’s song It’s Going Down.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=stuHt7ZRYrQ

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deception is the truest act Shabazz Palaces – ​free press and curl
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Since facts are debatable, and reality isn’t clear, deception becomes the norm. The truth of existence becomes deception and deception becomes truth.

The act of deceiving someone has real intentions behind it, these intentions are true and clear. Your honest lies can be revealing truths about yourself.

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I wonder if this may also reference Guy Debord’s ninth thesis, “In a world which really is topsy-turvy, the true is a moment of the false,” especially keeping in mind the themes of freedom and reality in the hook.

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Important in the context of the line above. He’s confusing the rational mind to bypass it with feelings.

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If you niggas selling dope then you selling my shit Tyler, The Creator (Ft. Domo Genesis) – Pigs Fly
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Tyler’s music is “dope” (good), so drug dealers are selling his music

“Shit” is also street slang for meth (which in turn is often referred to as “dope”), so he’s saying he is the definition of dope

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He could be referring to the last line saying that he needs dope to tranquilize the part of his mind that belongs in a cage

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I'm so uptown Drake (Ft. Bun B & Lil Wayne) – Uptown
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An alternate version of this song excludes Waynes verese and uses part of it as the hook, which makes more sense to call it Uptown. Otherwise this song should be called It’s Okay (I’m On) or something.

The song is called uptown because they took a sample from Uptown Girl by Billy Joel.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hCuMWrfXG4E

When he say’s “i’m so uptown”, he just saying he so hood or so from the hood, and that’s why the next line, “mutherfucka if you ain’t, don’t go uptown”, means if you ain’t from this hood, or you ain’t hood enough don’t go there. There meaning literally the hood, or even deeper don’t act hood if you aren’t hood.

The song is called uptown because they took a sample from Uptown Girl by Billy Joel.

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