You know they be asking ’bout Common, where he at?
What that man doing now?
I’m doing what I do, hip-hop
That's what I do
Yeah Common – Sweet
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It’d been about 3 years since Common’s last album, Universal Mind Control. Naturally, people wanted to know where the Chi-Town rep was at. Common begins by reassuring them he’s gone nowhere and that he’s doing what he’s best at – hip-hop.
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Common represents the pure essence of hip hop, from its soulful side to its more hard-edge approaches. He’s a veteran in the game reminding people of his status as such.
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This is an allusion to the hook on KRS-ONE’s “9mm Goes Bang”:
Wa-da-da-dang, wa-da-da-da-dang
Eh! Listen to my nine millimeter go, bang!
Nice reminder that this song’s message is nothing sweet.
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See them rappers? They be duckin'
When Comm be buckin' in the kitchen, fuckin' Common (Ft. Pharrell Williams) – Announcement
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Shades of Biggie Smalls' classic lines in his song “Unbelievable”:
Gats I pull it, bastards be ducking when Big be bucking
Chickenheads be clucking in my bathroom, fucking
(Notice that “Gats-I-pull-it” is a four-syllable rhyme to “Raps-are-bull-ets”).
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There are drugs under the chair – ecstasy and heroin, which is usually packaged in blue bags.
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Yelawolf is from Alabama, a state full of southerners, sometimes referred to as “rednecks”.
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Marie Antoinette, born an Archduchess of Austria, was Dauphine of France from 1770 to 1774 and Queen of France and Navarre from 1774 to 1792.
The pun “give me some head” (oral sex) plays on the fact that Marie Antoinette was beheaded.
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