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I'm down with VW's and flossed-out caddys on 22's too Living Legends (Ft. The Grouch) – Artsy

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Grouch doesn’t care what kind of car you have or how much money you have. He’ll chill in a beat up Volkswagen or a dope Cadillac.

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Neighbors keep tripping, I'm like, "I'm in a castle
Fuck your condo!" Macklemore & Ryan Lewis – Castle

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The neighbors hate on him because he’s being loud and having a good time, but they’re just in a condo and he’s in a castle!

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It’s important to mention he is too loud because he is banging a lot

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Then we took it back to Africa Skepta – Konnichiwa

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Skepta, together with his family, has organized lots of charity fundraisers. He has helped people in Nigeria.

Skepta recently built a playground for kids in a Nigerian village. Wizkid is a Nigerian artist, who could testify to Skepta’s generosity in his home country.

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5 years

This could also be a reference to ‘Africa’ by Toto in which it says the lines
‘I bless the rain down in Africa’

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7 years

Skepta is also a Nigerian

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Dickies baggy, sagging off my ass, abandoned the cuffs MellowHigh (Ft. EarlWolf) – Look

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Earl wears Dickies shorts and pants, but never cuffs them like some other people do.

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10 years

I think he says “A band in the cuffs” because I’ve seen Earl cuff his pants

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10 years

I think he said abandoned the cusp

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Never scared of mean spirits, methamphetamine lyrics Chance the Rapper (Ft. Twista & VIC MENSA) – Cocoa Butter Kisses

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Twista isn’t afraid of mean people or spirits ,(hard alcohol). He has been around a while and can handle both. Methamphetamine is a drug that is present in crystal meth and speed. He is playing on the word “dope” which refers to drugs, but is also slang for cool or good.

Twista is known for his fast and skillful rapping, as if his lyrics are on methamphetamine:

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the line could possibly be interpreted as “never sketamine spirits,” a reference to the s-isomer of dissociative drug ketamine and potentially the entities one encounters under the influence of the it

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Was when I... ("Uh") with all them burners, you Tyler, The Creator – Pigs

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Tyler said on Formspring that he edited a lot of this song because the lyrics were too fucked up. A burner is a gun. He is clearly implying something sick here, something that would be more likely to appear on his previous album Goblin.

After the release of this album though, Tyler has performed this song live and uncensored. The lyrics for this particular line are “Was when I came in the learnin' center with all them burners”. This could be a reference to any school shooting in history, but is most likely a reference to the Columbine High School Massacre in 1999, as suggested by this tweet he posted.

Despite him normally putting shocking lyrics on his albums, Tyler must have felt that this was a step too far, and cut it out of the album.

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After the release of this album though, Tyler has performed this song live and uncensored. The lyrics for this particular line are  "Was when I came in the learnin' center with all them burners". This could be a reference to any [school shooting](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_school_shootings_in_the_United_States) in history, but is most likely a reference to the [Columbine High School Massacre](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Columbine_High_School_massacre) in 1999, as suggested by [this tweet he posted.](https://twitter.com/intent/favorite?tweet_id=325705747038101504)

Despite him normally putting shocking lyrics on his albums, Tyler must have felt that this was a step too far, and cut it out of the album.

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6 years

From this live performance,

it should read:
“Was when I came in the learning centre with all them burners, you”

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8 years

Considering that tyler is a big fan of the old eminem, this line reminds me a lot of the infamous columbine line on Eminem ’s “I’m back”. Sounds like an homage to one of his idols.

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Was when I ran up in the learning centre with all them burners, you

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Shit was doper than Whitney Houston's needs Tyler, The Creator (Ft. Frank Ocean) – Slater

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Whitney Houston was an R&B singer that recently passed away from cocaine use.

The line is a double entendre on the word “doper”, being used to Mock Whitney Houstons' drug addiction as well as a synonym for awesome music!

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Cause everytime I see one I think what his parents would say Tyler, The Creator – Cowboy

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The roach is a common theme in Tyler’s lyrics because he ate one in his video for “Yonkers.” Tyler jokes that he feels remorse about killing the roach because it had a family and parents.

Also, a roach is the end of a joint that can’t be smoked. Tyler wonders what the kid’s parents would say if they knew they were smoking weed.