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Run and hide, hide, hide, hide
Run and hide Jay Electronica (Ft. The Bullitts) – Run & Hide
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The main character feels the need, ashamed and scared, to just run and hide from her deed. Despite her having already been encouraged to face her mistake, she still feels compelled to do just the opposite
These words are sung very slowly and deliberately, covering a lot of time. This seems to indicate that the main character wasted a lot of her time not just considering running and hiding, but actually doing it. This contradicts, though what she actually says in the video: “I cannot run. I cannot hide.”
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“Goldwatch” refers to the film director Jason Goldwatch who has directed several music videos for Jay Electronica, as well as a documentary about independent record label Definitive Jux called Revenge of the Robots which is what the “Robots” in this line refers to
Goldwatch wanted a better picture of him on here! lol
Yeah. It was more Wolf of Wall Street. GQ Magazine (Ft. Kanye West) – Kanye West: A Brand-New Ye
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As outlined in Kanye’s last response, he spent 2010 recklessly, ambitiously, and busily. This draws a neat parallel to Jordan Belfort’s time at the brokerage firms L.F. Rothschild and Stratton Oakmont, famously portrayed by Leonardo DiCaprio in the film Wolf of Wall Street: Belfort’s life was filled with drugs, sex, and huge career success
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Build a house of woods, burn the ho down
I look like a muthafuckin chimney! Kembe X – Attention Deficit Disorder
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Kembe’s a compulsive smoker, and he paints that picture here. He uses images of a wooden cabin being burnt and a chimney, characterizing himself, again, as a heavy smoker
“Woods” here is probably specifically referring to Backwoods, the Village’s cigar of choice
Check your time sheet!
I been clocked in ever since I dropped out Kembe X – Attention Deficit Disorder
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Kembe was only 19 at the time of this song’s release. He got a bit of a head start in his rapping career by dropping out of high school, releasing his Self Rule mixtape when he was just 17 years old
There’s a slight play on “young,” “time sheet,” and “clocked in” here, and a juxtaposition of “clocked in” and “dropped out”: dropouts are stereotyped as lazy, but Kembe asserts that he’s been working hard ever since he left school
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In this crucial scene of the Academy Award-winning film, Samantha, the conscious operating system, begins to express a desire to be more human and her relationship with Theodore strenghtens
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