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Crooked I started Hip Hop Weekly, in which he would take an instrumental from a song, and spit his own verses. He did this for a whole year and grouped them as a sort of mixtape. He planned to do it for another year, calling it Hip Hop Weekly Reloaded, and only finished 15 weeks until his idea got “swaggerjacked” by other artists, such as Kanye West, and he focused on his EPs and mixtapes rather than these songs.
Leasing something is often a real estate term, similar to renting a property.
In this line he is saying he is just leasing your instrumental, using it for a remix, but not claiming it to be his.
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Wordplay on the common phrase “home is where the heart is” Also referring to The Drummond House line from earlier, their motto is “where the heart is”
Since he grew up homeless, he lost his heart and compassion for other people and their problems.
Where's our ship?
Noah's Ark departed without us
Now we got this hardship Horseshoe G.A.N.G – Homeless / Real Talk
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These are some very clever lines.
Noah was instructed to build an ark to save himself, his family, and God’s creatures from a giant flood.
Demetrius is relating his childhood situation of being forgotten about, living on the streets, and facing many hardships while growing up, to Noah.
He feels like he was abandoned by Noah’s Ark and left to drown on his own. Instead of boarding Noah’s Ark (ship) he had his own hardships, which unfortunately did little to aid in his sense of drowning.
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They stare as if I reek of excrement Horseshoe G.A.N.G – Homeless / Real Talk
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He is asking every person passing by to help him in any way: spare change, clothing, food, etc..
All they do is stare and stay away from him like he smells like shit.
But at least they get picked up by the pound Horseshoe G.A.N.G – Homeless / Real Talk
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He is alone wandering the streets. However if he were a stray dog, at least he could then be taken to the pound and given shelter. He feels like he’s worse than a dog at this point.
Switch the "m" for a "p", and now I'm hopeless Horseshoe G.A.N.G – Homeless / Real Talk
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Has been long enough for y'all to see the winner in him? Joe Budden – Pain Won't Stop
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