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The angel of death is a Christian biblical term about the angels who carry us to heaven. He is saying they are stuck in this “hellhole” of earth dealing with people who only settle for being average instead of reaching for the stars and being the best they can be.

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He has a bad attitude, but it’s alright for him to because he’s not being a drama queen about it and keeps it to himself.

Whereas he says if you are being a drama queen, they your putting on an act for attention and “playing yourself.”

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“Wax” is another term for murder, but can allude to killing someone lyrically. He uses wordplay to say that he cuts people fast like he is shaving his balls.

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When Kendrick raps, he doesn’t actually use the word “those”. He says “ask God if them polls important.” It is also a homophone for “if them polls them potent.” So the sentence has two
meaning:

  1. If God really cares about the polls as in the presidential elections.

  2. If the polls are potent, which means efficient, so if they actually work. This goes back to him saying that minorities are lied to, so problems aren’t being fixed regardless.

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Reference to The Juice Crew’s “Symphony” video, where at the beginning a cowboy walks in.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3r-5cb8FaHk

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“Box” is another word for pussy. Royce isn’t going to eat a girl out, but he will still pleasure her in other ways.

Royce often expresses his distaste for going down on grls in a couple of songs:

Shady 2.0 Cypher:

You fly, but I ain’t going down on no landing strip

Lighters:

You goin down I’m something you don’t wanna see, like a hairy box

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Kuniva from D12’s name is Von Carlisle and Royce is saying that he thought at the time that he should punch him for talking behind his back, and not coming to his face about his problems.

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Royce goes by ‘Nickel’ since it equates to 5 and his name is 5'9". Otherwise this line is using a metaphor to say that he uses the change(skills) in his pocket(at his disposal) to make it into the game(paying his dues.)

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“Bearing his seed” is a idiom for her being pregnant, and to “bear fruit” means to produce a result that is wanted or desired, in this case the child is what he is referencing towards here, in the form of it being “planted” and “growing” inside of his girlfriend.

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Here Royce is referring to drive-by shootings. They are usually use minivans because you can just slide the door on the side spray your auto’s and slide the door and drive off. Plus they don’t look suspicious so you wouldn’t expect to get shot up by a mini-van, and then it’s not intended for soccer mom’s or kids, because of the shootings that will take place.

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