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Reference to Kid Cudi’s Day N Night, and the debut album that the song is off of, Man On The Moon: The End Of Day.

Also referring to singer Gladys Knight

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He may be on his way to hell, but the angel says that Kendrick has already been through it metaphorically, with Kendrick spending his childhood around in Compton, one of the worst ghettos in the United States.

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Usually the people that are party emcees don’t require much lyrical ability, but he’s got all of that, too.

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They are going to call 911 because his flow is suprising and puts all of the other rappers in a state of emergency. Meaning that he is going to put them out of business.

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I wanna piss on you.

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The “baby” in this case is codeine/lean. It is a drug known for slowing time down when you sip it, which helped Mac deal with his hectic life at the time. And Mac has already made a song comparing lean to a lover.

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No matter how much someone dislikes you, they can’t really say much when you’re much richer and more successful than them – word to Kanye.

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Charles Hamilton feels all alone, with music as his only comfort.

Fun fact: At the time of recording this, 2 years before it had been released, Charles was homeless. So, from that you could see the type of pain he must have been going through, and how much music really had meant to his well-being.

http://youtu.be/XJgXwqWe34U?t=9m53s

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It’s hard to trust a beautiful girl. Johnny is saying that when a girl that is very attractive gets you very infatuated and attached to her, it might be “scary”, because she could be so confident in herself that she easily not be as dependent on you as she is to you.

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God is the tailor that happened to weave them together and make them perfect for each other. Common could possibly have borrowed this idea from a popular poem about god being the weaver of all things in life by an author unknown, “The Weaver”.

“Seems” can be also interpreted as “seams” because tailors can sew seams together to fix a piece of clothing. They might have been made for each other, but they can fall apart the same way the seams of clothing can come apart.

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