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Smoking turns your lungs black.

This, literally would make one black on the inside. Despite this, Dizzy feels great! (After all, he has done his Soul Searchin'!) In all, he’s saying that smoking doesn’t necessarily mean that you can’t feel or be a great person.

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Playing on the custom of knocking on the door of the person you’re visiting. If he knocks twice, she’ll surely know he’s there, and let him in.

He’s going to have sex with her twice, just after he gets there. ‘Knocking the Boots’ is a term made popular in the 90’s by the H-Town song by the same name. The term plays on the idea that during missionary sex, the feet of the male and female are close, and, if they kept their ‘boots’ on, they would ‘knock’ up against each other.

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The principles of life, specifically finding inner peace and freedom. These comes from The, you guessed it, Four Agreements.

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Reading is not a commonly referenced or recommended activity in mainstream black America, and many black people don’t (or can’t) even read at all, so it is common that knowledge is left behind because books aren’t ‘cool’ enough to read.

This is also likely a nod to Chris Rock’s stand-up special “Bring The Pain,” where he discusses “Black People vs Niggaz.” Jadakiss also used this line) in his 2004 “Bring You Down”.

Jadakiss “Bring You Down”.

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An allusion to The Four Agreements by Miguel Angel Ruiz. The words within this book inspired Dizzy to make this EP, and he feels that everyone should know about this. He’s starting it off with the first agreement (Duh): Be Impeccable With Your Word.

It all makes sense now, doesn’t it?

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Double entendre:

  1. He’s brightening up his family situation, by creating this music, which helps him take care of them.

  2. He’s shedding light on this situation, and showing by example that we can overcome our circumstances.

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One major knock on preachers is that they talk as if they are better than everyone else. Preachers aren’t known for connecting with their audiences, so much as talking at them as if they haven’t heard Roses.

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The great black people who do make it to the mainstream audiences are slowly hunted down, and they’re either murdered (MLK Jr., Malcolm X, Pac and Big), have their image destroyed (DMX, Kanye West), or even both (Michael Jackson).

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Dizzy didn’t have a perfect life. His father wasn’t a large part of his life, evidenced when he stated in his song “Remembered”:

Daddy don’t love me
Or maybe he do but he ain’t around
I hope he know I ain’t just layin' around

Despite all of the struggles of this, He pulled through. Sometimes, it got worse before it got better, but he still made it.

Now, Dizzy’s the man of his own house, with his own daughter, and though his old man isn’t around to appreciate the moment, he’s still pulling through.

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Religious reference here (Surprise, Surprise!):

Jesus Christ was a prophet. He once fed Five thousand people with five loaves of bread and two fish. Five thousand people! Five. Thousand. People.

Dizzy’s music reaches thousands of people. His YouTube channel has nearly 12,000 subscribers, and people have viewed his videos nearly 800,000 times. His lyrics are insightful, inspriational, and provocative, so it’s safe to say he’s feeding the masses with knowledge.

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