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Joell’s career is built off his hardwork. He is determined to overcome any obstacles in his path, similar to Helen Keller, and describes how in the next few bars.

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Joell prepares his music, helps bring it all together, then indulges while he re-listens to everything.. Then if he is not 100% happy, he will either tweak it to make it just right, or trash it and start fresh. IF he doesn’t think its the best, how can he give it to the people who support him?

Unlike his competition which will throw anything together sloppily and try to pass it off to the fans

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Slaughterhouse, the House Gang, AKA the greatest hip hop group in the game today.

“Holy Alliance” could also be symbolic of how they all started as solo artists, got little to no recognition, and almost fell off and quit rapping. They have faced many obstacles despite being so talented, and feel it is a sign of God to have been brought together as one.

Joe Budden from his song, The Hard Part:

They was naive when they said that we was all through
All walk a same path feel like we the Lord’s group

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Clever flip of ‘some lumps’ to lump sums'.

Em is saying he’d punch the girl so hard that lumps/welts form on her skin if she even asked him for money.

A lump sum is a one time payment for something, typically a rather large amount.

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Eminem and Royce da 5'9" open their introduction as the Bad Meets Evil duo to welcome their listeners to the Hell: The Sequel EP in their own unique way by trying to outdo each other using double-time flow on the intro song “Welcome 2 Hell”, foreshadowing the lyrical masterclass that is to come in the tracks past it.

As the song progresses, Em’s and Royce’s turns get shorter until by the end they’ve merged and are finishing each other’s lines, symbolizing their presence as a single entity on the album.

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If Joe Budden is not himself, he’s not gunna listen to anyone’s advice. He’s contemplating allowing himself to relapse on pills, and go back to who he used to be.

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Lance Armstrong was a professional road racing cyclist who has survived testiclar cancer. At the time this song was written, Lance had won 6 titles at the Tour de France race. He went on to actually win a 7th title. However, he admitted to taking performance enhancing drugs and has been stripped of all awards/accomplishments and has been banned from competing in the sport again.

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Reference to Catch Me If You Can starring Leonardo DiCaprio and Tom Hanks in which they make millions off of forging fake checks.

Joe will become a pro scammer just like Leo was.

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Eli Porter was an amateur rapper that went on a public access show and performed probably the worst rap ever, the resulting performance going viral on the Internet. He is mentally handicapped, but still wanted to pursue his dream of rapping. At one point famously exclaims, “I’m the best, mane… I diiid it!” Mr. Porter is referencing the video and this young soul:

(Also, they both share the last name Porter)

Daniel Tosh also had Eli Porter on his Comedy Central show, Tosh.O in which he featured Eli in one of his weekly episode ‘Web Redemptions’ in which he sets up an opportunity for Eli to rap again on a college campus. He was able to perform on stage again, with a feature from Skylar Grey and he actually did a very good job this time around.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uC0U9xkbM24

Pretty inspiring honestly.

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Em has said outrageous shit about celebrities since his debut, what makes you think that he would stop now?

This more-so ties in with the previous line about Bubbles, MJ’s pet monkey. There was some controversy kicked up on an Eminem song, Just Lose It and MJ (and also Stevie Wonder) displayed some negativity towards how he (MJ) was portrayed in that song. Eminem is not going to apologize for anything he has ever said or done.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iYryw1c7NGA

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