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A play on words. Foereign names on frames refers to Cakes' designer shades he’s wearing, which cast a shade over everything he sees. However, to “cast” or “throw shade” is slang for disrespecting or dissing someone, so Cakes is also putting down everyone around him by looking fly.

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A clip from the popular 1990 documentary film Paris Is Burning, which looks at LGBT ball culture (near the end of clip).

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FKJ_8HpiqPU

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Sampled from the 1974 blaxploitation film Truck Turner, starring Isaac Hayes (Nichelle Nichols speaking).

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xepy6dopZIw

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Cakes is saying that his rhymes are so good that they bring him sexual attention from the men around him, even those who are homophobic, thus making them hypocrites for insulting gay people.

Best watch out…

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Referring to Castro Supreme, a male porn star who possesses a 13-inch penis.

(It’s pretty unlikely that Cakes is talking about Fidel)

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Probably something like these

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This is a sped-up sample of Donna Summer performing her disco rendition of Richard Harris' song “MacArthur Park” live.

Summer was proclaimed the “Queen of Disco” in the 70s, a genre which had a big influence of the New York gay community. Cakes has said before that he was into disco way before he became a rapper. So thematically the use of the sample ties in with the central theme of The Eulogy, which is Cakes' life as a badass gay man.

In addition, “MacArthur Park” is noted for it’s flamboyant and flowery imagery, something which Cakes holds in his character. In particular, the metaphor about the cake being left in the rain has become well known for it’s oddness. Perhaps that’s where Cakes got his name from (!?).

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6H0BD2eWIww

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Snoop went back into his house to retrieve his herbage that he had forgotten to pick up.

This line is changed from the original, where Slick Rick says Kangol, referring to the 80s headgear.

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An odd situation where the wind is chasing the scent that the boat gives off, thus pushing the sails on the boat and making it move. Again, Cleopatra has control of nature.

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The colour purple is usually associated with royalty, power, nobility, luxury, and ambition, as well as magic.

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