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Double Entendre
1) Young black men aren’t generally successful, so in the white law’s (the government) eyes.. he’s broken.
2) He has to break the law to be black and successful.
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Double Entendre
1) Los' raps actually have meaning; captured (which refers to people stuck in a bad situation in this instance) people can relate to his songs.
2) Los' raps are so strong they can capture the hearts of people who are already dedicated fans to another rapper.
Pop that pussy and shake that ass
I say pop that pussy and shake that ass
Pop that pussy and shake that ass
You gotta pop that pussy and shake that ass Lil Wayne (Ft. Birdman) – No Ceilings (Pop That)
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A direct reference to “Pop Goes The Pussy”, a song from Lil Wayne’s 2003 mixtape, Da Drought.
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This is a reference to the Madonna song, Like A Virgin
Sexually she is:
A)Not loose, isn’t dirty, and seems innocent like a virgin.
B)Still knows what she’s doing, and likes to have fun like Madonna.
The best of both worlds; perfection.
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Birdman signed Lil Wayne to his record label Cash Money Records when he was only 11 years old.
The love of a father, father, father, father, father
There ain't no love
The love of a father, father, father, father, father Birdman & Lil Wayne – Like Father, Like Son
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Lil Wayne and Birdman always refer to themselves as father and son. When Wayne was still in elementary school, Birdman took him under his arm and gave him a chance to start a rap career. Birdman has been Wayne’s father figure ever since, as Wayne’s biological father abandoned him as a child and his stepfather died when he Wayne was a teenager.
This line is enforcing the idea that the bond between a father and his son is incomparable.
Also, this restates the album name Like Father Like Son, which is an idiom commonly used to justify a son’s actions when he acts like his father.
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This idiom describes how love just hits you in the face with no warning. Tyga also cleverly intertwines this line about death into the next line about suicide.
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#DOUBLE ENTENDRE
1) Tyga wants to french kiss his lover sensually, like the extremely famous bassist Gene Simmons is able to do with his notoriously long tongue.
2) This also refers to Simmons' band, Kiss.
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I don’t give a damn is a common exclamation of disinterest. In this line, Lil Wayne plays-on a reference of the Hoover Dam – a well-known concrete gravity-arch dam on the border of Arizona and Nevada – to further reinforce his disinterest.
