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Aspen, Colorado is a famous ski resort community. Due to its high altitude Aspen can reach, on average, 9.4 degrees Fahrenheit during the month of January. Quite cold.
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This plays off of Muhammad Ali’s famous line
Float like a butterfly sting like a bee
Cole agrees with Ali’s bee metaphor, but a butterfly isn’t strong enough for what Cole does. Cole is going off to the point where he could float on the top of one of the biggest floods of all time like Noah’s Ark did.
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Paul Wall deemed, IWC watches Papoose (Ft. Nas) – Across the Track
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“It ain’t rocket science” is a common idiom used to say that a certain situation is not as complex as you’re making it out to be. Nas spells it out here plain in simple, “What’s a prophet without honesty?” As the Prophet Muhammad said,
When honesty is lost, then wait for the Hour (Doomsday)
Paul Wall is a Houston based rapper known for his shiny grill.
Notice that Nas mentions rocket science and Paul Wall is from Houston, alluding to the Houston Rockets basketball team
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God made two great lights- the greater light to govern the day and the lesser light to govern the night
- Genesis 1:16
In the Christian faith there is a doctrine called The Trinity which characterizes God into three parts: Father, Son, and Holy Spirit.
Therefore, anything that was created by the father was indirectly created by the son. See how that works? Therefore the mother of Jesus would be seen as an indirect bearer of the night and day itself. In Christian faith this bearer is know as the Virgin Mary
Also notice the dichotomy between son and sun in this context. The Virgin Mary gave birth to the son of God but also involved herself in the creation of the sun and moon around her.
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When Mickey says he is copping drugs or weapons he isn’t lying. Cop is a play on words in this context as it refers to Rick Ross being a correctional officer at one point in his life.
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Nefertiti was the royal wife of the Pharaoh Akhenaten.
MeLo wants to find his own wife that he can have as his own.
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Steven Spielberg is worth 3.2 billion dollars according to Forbes magazine. Jay has a long way to go before he reaches that much bank, but maybe if he works on ET 2: Alien Goes Gangsta he could get up there.
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Continues the Tarzan theme from the previous line. Tarzan, like the apes that raised him, routinely would swing on the vines to get from place to place.
Banana clip is a common name for the magazine that belongs to an AK47 because it is shaped like a banana.
And what fruit do apes routinely eat?
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The correct lyrics are “the same old gat with the same old clip” and your whole thing with tarzan and bananas makes no sense relating to the song…