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https://twitter.com/YoWalleyB/status/387022244720832512

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Created by:

Vince Gilligan

Starring:

Bryan Cranston
Anna Gunn
Aaron Paul
Dean Norris
Betsy Brandt
RJ Mitte
Bob Odenkirk
Laura Fraser
Jesse Plemons

Guest Starring:

Steven Michael Quezada
Michael Bowen
Kevin Rankin

Edited by:

Skip Macdonald, A.C.E.

Production Designer:

Mark Freeborn

Director of Photography:

Michael Slovis ASC

Music by:

David Porter

Casting by:

Sharon Bialy CSA
Sherry Thomas CSA

Producers:

Bryan Cranston
Diane Mercer

Co-Executive Producers:

Moira Walley-Beckett
Thomas Schnauz
George Mastras
Peter Gould
Sam Catlin
Melissa Bernstein

Executive Producers:

Michelle MacLaren
Mark Johnson
Vince Gilligan

Produced by:

Stewart A. Lyons

Written by:

Moira Walley-Beckett

Directed by:

Rian Johnson

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A really powerful question here, speaking on the loss of innocence in kids in rough areas around the world. Chance is most likely referring of the children/people living in Chicago. The violence and chaos going on there strips a lot of children of their innocence, one idea being that religion will save you (or that God is “magic”)

He wonders both for himself because he’s having questions about religion himself and he wonders for these children. Do they still have their innocence or has it truly been stripped from them?

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#Check his kickstarter here

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Drake realizes that with the large scope his art has, he can take it anywhere he chooses. He’d rather talk about/think like the younger Drake who lived in the basement (as seen on Degrassi Unscripted: Drake) than focus on money, pussy, and vacation. He hopes to be a good influence on his listeners

The artwork of Nothing Was the Same is the perfect example of Drake’s attitude towards music. He has stated that he wanted to give his fans a true piece of art, instead of a standard rap album cover. The artwork is an oil painting by Kadir Nelson, who also did the artwork for Michael Jackson’s posthumous album, Michael.

The line I want to take it deeper than money, pussy, vacation is one of the many lines Drake includes throughout Nothing Was the Same that subtly tells the listener that he’s growing apart from Lil Wayne.

Recently, Lil Wayne has taken to rapping, as Drake says, mainly about money, girls and vacation – constantly mentioning 2 of them in the same line. Drake does not want to end up making music as shallow and disposable as his mentor. The reader should also note that Lil Wayne does not feature on any of the songs on Nothing Was the Same.

Rather, Drake references Lupe Fiasco’s Strange Fruition

Man, they so impatient with the stations that they have

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