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K Dot, Soul, and Jay Rock spitting over A Tribe Called Quest. Magnificent.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y9B7rxtxZs4

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Looking for someone to check your annotations? Here are some people who can!

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In this release Jay Rock compares life to a game of chess. He’s aiming for the checkmate.

Samples Blood Sweat and Tear’s “I Love You More than You’ll Ever Know”
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Mobb Deep details how to rob people for their goods.

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Drake has often talked about his father’s previous criminal life.

My dad went to jail for, like, a year on – I don’t even know what he was in jail for – an assault charge or a drug charge or something

Even though his father’s jail time affected him it also strengthened Drake’s love of rap music as he would often rap with some of Dennis' cellmates.

Daddy was in jail we was talkin' through the window like a muhfuckin drive thru

The tattoo is a literal depiction of Dennis' original mugshot.

Lookin' like a young Reggie Jackson

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Guess Drake wasn’t playing around when he said

H town my second home like I’m James Harden

This small Houston Astros inspired tattoo reaffirms Drake’s love for the H town. Looks like the Astros approved.

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Reference to the infamous Flo Rida song Low

In JD Era’s case he is telling everyone to get low to avoid the metaphorical bullets that he is about to spray with his lyrics.

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Before Charlie Ward joined the New York Knicks he was a Heisman winning quarterback for Florida State University.

“Pitching the rock” has a double meaning within the context of this verse. In The Game’s case “pitching rock” means selling crack, but refers to throwing a football in Charlie Ward’s case.

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The instrumental interlude is very important to the overall flow of the story. Within the framework of the film the strings show the sorrow of their parent’s death, while the oboes and horns cry out in desolation, desperate for the characters well being.

After the parents die in the sinking ship, the whole dynamic of the song and film changes. The first two verses document Anna’s childhood desperate for Elsa’s affection. However in the third verse after her parents die, Anna becomes the support for Elsa as she knows that their whole dynamic has changed.

While the parent’s death is sorrowful, it also brings the two girls closer together and allows the major conflict of the story to rear its ugly head.

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