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I heard she's mixed but her heart went black The Jealous Guys – Love and Other Drugs
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The girl is biracial, but her heart is “black” meaning that it’s empty, and burnt.

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Cold summers where niggas’ll probably starve out Meek Mill – Big Dreams
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Interesting bit of wordplay. He’s saying that the summers were so crazy and dangerous, that they were “cold”. And when they’re cold, you can’t make money or “eat” so you’ll starve.

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R.O.C. man told us “Sun don’t shine” Meek Mill – Big Dreams
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The guy who Meek bought crack to sell from told him that the doesn’t shine. That shows that the rock man has been through so much pain and misery that he sees the world negatively, without any sunlight.

This is also a possible reference to Jay Z. Jay-Z, C.E.O. of Rocafella Records, commonly referred to as The ROC, would be the “Roc Man”, and on the track Takeover Jay said the lyric:

But I know: the sun don’t shine, then son don’t shine

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Wrong, hes tallking about Vodka, a Philly rapper who has a song called sun dont shine.. every young bul from philly grew up on this song and Vodka

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A Rebellion Ab-Soul (Ft. Alori Joh) – A Rebellion
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This song is about rebelling- rebelling against authority, public figures and religion.

The drum sample comes from Paul Simon’s 50 Ways to Leave Your Lover.

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This song is about a particular kind of rebellion, or rather, philosophy of rebellion, Anarchism. Like many of the Anarchist of the 19th century, Ab Soul goes after all forms of man made authority: religion, the state and capitalism. Also the his wanting to shoot these figures of authority is reminiscent of Emma Goldman and the assassination of president Mckinley.

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Joseph
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The sample that plays at the end is Argentine revolutionary Che Guevara’s Speech to the UN “la bestialidad imperialista”. Taking aim a the US government and its neo-imperialist policies.

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Matter fact, fuck that, I ain't worried about nothin'
No, I ain't worried about nothin', it's always somethin' Ab-Soul – Nothing's Something
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He doesn’t have “nothing” to worry about. Instead, he always has something to worry about.

He says “Matter fact, fuck that” as a reply to what people have to say about him being selfish. Therefore, he’s worried about nothing. Then say “it’s always something” denoting that everyone will all come across have a problem with him some point in his life.

This came out a year before French Montana’s Ain’t Worried About Nothin, so is not a reference to that.

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