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MEN:Calling a girl a bitch is bad, but calling her a woman is good. However, if you want brownie points, call her a lady.

On the other side of the coin, Lupe is telling women what they should aspire to be. You shouldn’t want to be a bad bitch, you should want people to see you as a woman or a lady.

Lupe might be also playing with “misunderstood”, as it could be seen as “Ms. Understood”

The word ‘they’ could be used to describe women as a whole or our society but that isnt important. What he wants to show to us is that because of media we dont understand that being a bitch has a negative connotation and that being a woman or a lady is highly looked upon as compared to a bitch.

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Lupe plays with one of RapGenius’s favorite techniques here, the double entendre.

This woman tends to hold the word Lupe is talking about to double standards: if someone says it in the wrong way to her, she is offended; however, when she says it, she means it in a positive way, because that’s what she was exposed to as a child

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The small things are what can influence young people and their decisions – things such as what words artists choose to use in their songs can change someone so young’s views

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If Gunplay dies while he’s trapping (you know, in the field of work), he wants his friends & fam to remember him respectfully – by pouring liquor on the ground or, in a less traditional way, smoking one

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Jay describing himself by using various ways of destroying items that relates to music with his verses.

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The use of “little” in these lines indicates that even kids are murderers, because they learn from their environment & just do what they see

While most kids just “play” or “hang” out with their friends, these kids kill with their friends

This epistrophe is reminiscent of Jay-Z’s in Trouble. Whereas Jay-Z was condescending and threatening with it, Nas' attitude is more wary

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Jay is saying if he drops a freestyle straight off his dome, he would kill anything the other person drops, using the typical heat metaphor

Jay’s referenced saunas multiple times before

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Wordplay ‘Le strikes again:

While Wale follows the footsteps of his boss Rozay here, commenting on his girl’s accessories; Double C’s is also referring to the CC: portion of a letter or email, where you “carbon copy” another recipient so they “get the message”.

^ The Chanel logo is two “C’s”

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Wale channels his inner sneaker-head, bragging about his OG Jordan Nine’s, which were the first Jordan’s that Michael didn’t wear in a game

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