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Shakespeare’s language is so ambiguous and difficult to understand that most editions also have a dumbed-down English version on the opposite side of every page.

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At the end of MacBeth, a Shakespeare play, everyone dies. Seuss compares this to a classroom being read to with Shakespeare, where everyone is sleeping or bored, so that it resembles dead people.

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Doctor Seuss’s real name was Theodor Seuss Geisel, and he was in no way a doctor, without a PhD, or even a university degree, for that matter.

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Even though she’s beautiful, he doesn’t want to have kids, so she needs to find another guy to support her.
Maybe Kanye?

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Traditionally, a teams that wins gets to raise their banner to celebrate a victory.
Watsky says that just like nobody gets to raise their banner before the game ends, he won’t know how his career is going to end, until he actually tries to follow through with his dreams. .

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This is a play on the common phrase;

A picture is worth 1000 words

Jay says that if a picture is a thousand words, his work is significant enough to have enough words to make a whole movie.
Since a movie is really just a collection of rapidly moving photos, that is a lot of words.

Fun Fact:

  • The standard modern day movie has 24 frames per second. The recent movie D'Jango Unchained is 165 minutes, which is 9,900 seconds.. which means 237,600 frames… which means 237,600,000 words.

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If you’re familiar with Jay E, than you know how dope he is, and how well he can rip into his weaker competitors without any remorse. .

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This is an open threat to anyone who wants to challenge him; and an invitation for anyone willing to battle him to step up.
He professes his prowess on the mic, and says he’ll take anyone who messes with him right out of the rap game. .

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Just because another rapper’s music sells a lot, doesn’t mean it is deep and meaningful.
Watsky tells people not to dwell on their music, looking for a deep meaning.
Besides, there’s a Site for that. .

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He’s looking for meaning in the rap game, because deep inside, he cares about it. .

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