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Girls that's built like dudes, I don't like Slaughterhouse – I Don't Like
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He doesn’t like them.

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Niggas keep screamin' that gangsta shit
So I'mma give niggas that gangsta shit Lil Eazy-E – Gangsta Shit
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Everyone’s claiming to be a gangsta so Lil E’s gonna show them what a real gangsta looks like.

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But your gonna need a telescope
To the see these stars on the track Eric Turner (Ft. Lupe Fiasco & Tinie Tempah) – Angels & Stars
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Referring to the artists on this track, these “stars” are so high, you’re going to need a telescope to find them

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With her eyes to the ceiling and a needle in her brain Lupe Fiasco – Lamborghini Angels
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Probably a reference to the process of Lobotomy performed by doctors to treat mental patients. This process is illegal now. He is saying that when someone strays too far from the mainstream then they are brought back by force and we explain it by claiming that we are helping them.

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He’s definitely giving her a lobotomy in this line. She’s leaning back in the chair and he’s performing surgery (finishing up). He’s not being abstract at all right now, but the rest of the verse suggests that he just saved her from going “stark, raving mad” (it could be a homophone for “star-craving mad”). He said that she slipped from the existence to the realm of the deranged, meaning she wasn’t thinking normally…she was brainwashed and becoming mentally ill – until the lobotomy. The looseness of her tongue (women saying they’re a ‘bad bitch’ and not acting lady-like at all), to pollutions of her aims (women are becoming more and more corrupt, gold-diggers, Real Housewives of Somewhere-ish, moral less, etc.)…and the surgeon felt that blank-slating her was the most humane thing to do…reboot her, and build from there.

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Also a reference to a song brainwashing a woman, much like in Bitch Bad where the young girl discovers her self worth through mysogynistic rap songs. The needle in her brain is like a record player.

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adding to that the last line probly gives hint to why they thought she was mentally impaired or had a demon because back then when women had no rights they couldn’t go to school. and i guess all of that happened to her because she wanted to go to school so infact she was probobly very smart but just in an unfortunate country at an unfortunate time

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this verse is simple to me. hes saying how when this religion thing happened particular with catholics they were perverted and used their “wisdom” to make decisions for people, crucial decisions. just like the salem witchcraft era. the girl was probly born insane or was thought to be insane because of whatever reason and they performed these things that looked like miracols back then and probly had there way with her sexually because of her state after the needles in her head. if you pit needles in someones brain they can still live and function depending on which areas you touch you get actual reactions to with the different parts of the brain. wickedness man. lol but ye hes just showing some origin and like saying ye you look up to them theyre so holy but look at the evil and wickedness these preist come from. i think this whole album he’s just bring light to the dark history of america.

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The OP is right. He’s giving the girl a lobotomy. Countless references in the verse: Blank slate, replacing memories, she won’t know who she is.

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CT
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My interpretation is that the devil is the doctor and is changing the way a woman thinks putting her in the belief that she must follow everyone else and sin the “world of the deranged” is whats right but mainstream society says its wrong

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Starts off the hip-hop/girl metaphor. Her “eyes” are turntable vinyls that face up to the ceiling & the needle of the player is on Hip-hop’s brain, the record.

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When they kill me, I know I'll die with a focused mind Lowkey (Ft. Mavado) – Soundtrack to the Struggle
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If they kill Lowkey at least he’ll die for a cause. He’ll die with a goal set in his mind.

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P for the pussy wussy wuffin' nigga broke
As a motherfuckin' joke
Talkin' about you wanna smoke
The E to the A-Z-Y Eazy-E – It’s On
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Eazy calls Snoop also a pussy and claims that he’s broke (= poor). He can’t take Snoop serious when he says he’s going to kill (= ‘smoke’) Eazy.

The ways Eazy spells his name is also a mocking reference to Snoop, who raps for example in “Nuthin' But A ‘G’ Thang”:

It’s the capital S, oh yes I’m fresh, N double-O P
D O double G Y, D O double G, ya see

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Tell you motherfuckers who you fuckin' with, Eazy Eazy-E – It’s On
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The main line is a sample of MC Ren from Eazy-E’s song “Ruthless Villain,” while the “Eazy” ad-lib is from Eazy-E’s “Eazy Duz It,” and is sung by Michel'le. Both songs are off of the 1988 Eazy-Duz-It, Eazy-E’s and N.W.A.’s first album.

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Every hood's the same, every hood's the same
Every hood's the same, every hood's the same
Every hood's the same, every hood's the same WFSMett – Real Thugs (2Pac & Eazy-E Remix)
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Every hood’s got the same problems.

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They give us guns and drugs
Then wonder why you don't fuck with thugs
You wanna count the slugs
Then come around here and fuck with us (You know)
They give us guns and drugs
Then wonder why you don't fuck with thugs
You wanna count the slugs
Then come around here and fuck with us WFSMett – Real Thugs (2Pac & Eazy-E Remix)
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The government gives them guns and drugs and then calls them thugs. ‘Slugs’ is slang for bullets. The cops then come with their guns and cause problems for them.

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