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Mikey is a fan of mostly classic cars like IROC-Z Camaros, but he will make an exception for exotic foreign whips which he also loves. .

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A metaphor for creating dope music. Kendrick’s “pyrex pot” is the music studio.

Pyrex pots are notorious for creating crack from cocaine.

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Jehovah’s Witnesses believe only 144,000 people will go to heaven. There are 7 billion people on Earth. Kendrick finds it unfair that not everyone can go to heaven, even if they led a good life. This statement along with ones said on “The Heart Pt. 2” show that it’s impossible for anyone including him to truly understand religion.

But in the grand scale of his statement, he is daunted in the thought that in the exact moment today, there are multitudes more people than that currently on earth, not even including the myriads that lived in the past, so it seems unfair IF it really were that heaven was the only option.

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Kendrick is referring to his rap career. “Off track like Dale Earnhardt” is a simile. Dale Earnhardt died after crashing into the track wall during the 2001 Daytona 500. In Kendrick’s sense, he has stopped making music because he’s lost motivation and fell into the spoils of a semi successful rap career.

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This is a new era of rap where artists can thrive without being signed to major labels. Label execs are known to be cut throat and not care about the quality of music, so Cole says fuck ‘em!

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This track was created in 2011 and was going to be on his album in that same year when he thought it would be released. At this time he was 25; 5 years before he becomes 30-years-old.

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J. Cole is on Jay-Z (aka Hov)’s music label. Jay asked Cole if he is ready for the success; Cole took a look at all of Jay-Z’s fancy things and said “hell yeah!”

These lines somewhat parallel with The Lion King scene from the intro, Jay-Z being Mufasa and J. cole being Simba. .

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XkFUHMjZDgs

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The song stopped playing at the strip club, so the stripper picked up her money and got off the stage.

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Krit is just cruising down the road.

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Bun B is repping Port Arthur, Texas, a city outside of Houston, hence the initials, PA.

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