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Six refers to this scene from the movie The Seven Year Itch:

The “lift..up like light wind” formulation here comes from Jay-Z’s “Who You Wit II”:

Pull you and your tight friend
Lift your little dress like light wind
Hah, then I slide right in

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360 creatively brags about his flow while giving don’t-try-this-at-home cooking tips

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Sene and Blu pay tribute to Jay-Z and their home city in this moving cut

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Los goes in over Jeezy’s hit song

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Action joins with Das Racist’s Kool A.D. for a playful, free-association-filled tune notable for a shout-out to Bronson’s critical champion, NY Times writer Jon Caramanica

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Cudi’s daughter Vada was born in early 2010, though he kept her existence from the public for the first six months of her life. He explained his decision, and why he changed his mind:

There’s another thing people don’t know. I have a daughter, born March 26th of this year. Her name is Vada, and she’s Fawking awesome. That was eating me up, and it was stressing me out that nobody knew about her. I was trying to escape from that, too. Just trying to figure it out and make everyone happy, it’s a lot for somebody my age to handle

I was manning up and dealing with it in what I thought was the right way, but it was the wrong way. I want to be around for her. I can honestly say she was the wake-up call. The reality that it’s bigger than just you now–you have a responsibility and there’s no more time for mistakes. It’s time to stop Fawking around

Cudi has described the girl’s mother as a “longtime friend/ex”

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Cudi explained in an interview where this song’s questions came from:

Everything that my girlfriend ever told me – you know, ‘I need consistency,’ ‘What would you do if this happened?’ ‘Are you gonna stick around?’ The things that a woman needs to hear to be reassured that this is some real shit that she’s engaging in. I thought it would be cool to take her words and put a spin on it and put it from a guy’s perspective

If you notice, the lyrics are very sassy (laughs). You could just imagine [girlfriend] Jamie [Baratta] checking me one day in those exact same words

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As he helpfully explains here, Pu$haz Ink is the name of YG’s record label

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YG joins with Philly’s finest and proceeds to get Renegaded on his own song

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El nods here to the cartoon mouse Speedy Gonzales, whose signature catchphrase was “¡Ándele! ¡Ándele! ¡Arriba! ¡Arriba! ¡Epa! ¡Epa! ¡Epa! Yeehaw!”. While in Spanish, this means “Go on! Go on! Up! Up!”, the writers likely meant it to mean something closer to “Hurry up!”

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