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“This year” being 2011. Weather-wise, 2011 was pretty polarizing: many areas in the East experienced record rainfall, whereas places in the South, near Jay Elec’s hometown New Orleans experienced record dry spells

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This can be both a contradiction or a reaffirmation of the previous line. Both lines imply Jay’s music is up to a certain standard.
The question is can he meet both standards without that being a contradiction in itself. If the Halal and Kosher codes serve the same function, to determine what is acceptable and permitted by [god’s] law, then there is no contradiction.

We at RapGenius have decided that it is obligatory of Jay Elecyarmulke to shout out the Jewish religion frequently in his music

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A sexual reference to the Scarecrow in the Wizard of Oz, where he meets Dorothy and talks about his only fear is “a lighted match.” However, later on, he says:

But I’d face a whole box full of them for the chance of getting some brains.

Bear in mind that “getting [a] brain” refers to the foreplay to which he refers in the previous line, which is also associated with “the box.”

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“Milk and honey” is a phrase of Exodus origins, referring to something very sweet and appealing. In Islam, Allah gives the believers rivers of honey, milk, and wine in heaven. This is to say that this girl is the sweetest thing in his life.

Fun fact – honey is the only product made from an unkosher animal (bees) that is itself kosher.

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A reference to the 2Pac line which has since been used countless times in hip-hop

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Referring to the streets in Fayetteville, like Lewis Street, where he grew up with killers who he didn’t know were killers

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A play on the common American idiom to stay on one’s toes, meaning to stay alert. Girls stay alert and on the lookout for Cole

You put Dr. Scholls inserts in your shoes to comfort your foot and your toes.

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A little pun on good and bad

Cole should invite ‘em to the “Bad Girls Club”

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J. Cole’s debut album was certified Gold… and he has higher hopes for his sophomore album.

But his complications at home with this girl has got him tripping in his own house… even though he should be in a great mood with his album coming out.

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This skit is made up of two excerpts from a sermon by televangelist Pastor Kerney Thomas. It’s this sermon here:

Thomas promises salvation and “miracles” to those who order his products—effectively ripping desperate people off and making money with empty promises.

The sermon illustrates this line from one of Cole’s previous projects:

How they got these niggas on the TV selling miracles?
You mean to tell me everything gon' be fine
If I call your hotline and pay $29.99? (Shit)

It’s likely that Cole uses the skit to draw parallels between TV swindlers and the music industry. In the same way in which Pastor Thomas promises redemption in exchange for money, record labels promise easy money in exchange for an artist’s creative soul. On the previous track “Villuminati,” Cole admits to having ‘sold out’ once.

The skit furthers the religious themes of Born Sinner. Additionally, the skit contains elements of Outkast’s “Da Art of Storytellin' (Pt. 1)”, further sampled in the album’s subsequent track, “LAnd of the Snakes.”

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