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DC is spitting lines that Childish deems to be up to Jay-Z quality.
DC Pierson is Gambino’s good friend and fellow Derrick Comedy member, and he says even though he’s white, he deserves the same respect as a traditional black rapper.

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“Hash tag rap”, as explained by Kanye West:

Hashtag rap–that’s what we call it when you take the ‘like’ or ‘as’ out of the metaphor.
‘Flex, sweater red… FIRETRUCK.’
Everybody raps like that, right?
That’s really spawned from Barry Bonds' ‘Here’s another hit… BARRY BONDS.’

Gambino is saying that people hate him just because of his HashTag rap style, and he thinks it’s funny people are so judgemental.

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Since ‘g’ is a letter, if it was ‘fake’, the alphabet wouldn’t be correct.
So if people are being fake ‘g’s’, it fucks up his alphabet.

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This refers to the fact that there are two ways for a girl to orgasm, or ‘come’.
The first is clitoral, the second is vaginal, involving either pressure on sensitive spots, or penetration, respectively.
Gambino uses this to compare to the ‘coming’ of the future, saying it’s going to come no matter what you do.

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He compares himself to rapper Gucci Mane. Much like Gucci’s name is derived from the fashion icon Gucci, Gambino’s name is similarly related to fashion, because whenever someone talks about him, he believes that style and beauty should be main topics.

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He bangs on the beats of ‘shit’ he makes, meaning he kills his music.
He compares this to gay sex, in a way that should be either painfully obvious, or better left alone.

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He’s famous, but the guy he is competing with for the girl is not.
He uses this to insinuate that it will be him leaving with the girl.
He uses the band She and Him to connect to that, because the band is composed of Zooey Deschanel and M.Ward.

While she’s famous, he… isn’t.

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A pretty awesome song from FWMJ and Jay. E’s Scratches & Demo tape.

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When Cole first began rapping, he didn’t tell anyone as he didn’t want any negative energy from some of the people he knew. This isn’t the first time J. Cole has talked about this; it was the main theme for his song, Like A Star.

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Eminem was a frequent bullying victim as detailed in “Brain Damage”, and he really got peed on once (though technically he peed on himself).

And from a Salon article released shortly after this song came out, he grew up poor, and:

By the time he enrolled in Warren’s Lincoln High, he had attended as many as 20 schools, his mother estimates.

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