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This line is meant to convey Cindi’s belief that love isn’t fluffy like people make it to be; it’s a deep, almost dangerous connection. The word “love” is used too often and too readily, which cheapens its meaning and makes us disillusioned whenever someone says it to us.

Haiku is a traditional Japanese poetry form that consists of three lines arranged with 5 syllables, 7 syllables and 5 syllables again.

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OJ Simpson was accused of stabbing and killing his wife Nicole in the 90s

“Hoes” and “holes” with a soft L are almost homophones. “They too busy stabbing hoes” could mean the girls are too busy stabbing holes in condoms, a reference to the earlier line “Any breakage in that Trojan?”

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This is a play on western music solfège: do, re, mi, fa, so, la, ti, do. By saying the only thing he puts infront of “me” is “do, re” Gambino is makes the point that he puts himself and his priorities ahead of everyone else’s.
Also he is saying “the only thing I put before myself is my music”.

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Everyone is a warrior, and we all need Senseis to teach us how to metaphorically, “fight,” and guide us.

The two Japanese characters that make up “sensei” can be directly translated as “born before” and implies one who teaches based on wisdom from age and experience.In general usage, it means “master” or “teacher”, and the word is used as a title to refer to or address teachers, professors, professionals such as lawyers, CPA and doctors, politicians, clergymen, and other figures of authority. The word is also used to show respect to someone who has achieved a certain level of mastery in an art form or some other skill: accomplished puppeteers, novelists, musicians, and artists for example are addressed in this way.

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Jay and Kanye proclaimed to the rap world that they currently sit on the throne as kings, and told everyone to “watch it.” Donald took these words to heart, and will aspire to reach the top in everything he does.

This is also a play on words to ‘Ye and Jay’s collaborative effort released in August 2011, Watch the Throne.

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“Heartbeat” is a song about The One, and not being able to have or be with her. It expresses the complicated emotions that can occur when you’re sleeping with girls you don’t love and are still messing around with the ones you do.

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This is the theme song from the 1999 steampunk film Wild Wild West starring Will Smith. Though the song was commercially successful and reached No. 1 on the Billboard Hot 100, it received widespread criticism for its verbatim sampling of Stevie Wonder classic “I Wish”, one of many choice cuts from his critically acclaimed Songs in the Key of Life; it was also criticized for being nowhere close to a “Western” kind of song (not that that was a bad thing).

“Wild Wild West” would later end up on Will Smith’s second studio album Willenium. The music video ended up being a star-vehicle for Dru Hill member Sisqó.

Why was Kool Moe Dee brought on to this project? It may have something to do with this 1987 track….

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Like ninjas, these black-suited brothers will just appear out of nowhere.

The latter line is also an interpolation of one of Notorious B.I.G.’s lines from Total’s “Can’t You See”:

My rap lines is like land mines
One step, ka-boom, black suits fill the room

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The MiB claims to be Division 6 of the FBI, but no such division exists (at least in the MiB universe). When agents are brought into the MiB, their entire life is quite literally erased – birth certificates, passports, SS numbers and fingerprints (done with a special machine).

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The mega smash-hit theme song from the equally mega smash-hit Men in Black, the 1997 comics-film starring Will Smith and Tommy Lee Jones, with the former rapping this track. Coko, the lead singer of R&B group SWV, sings the hook and provides extra vocals.

The track samples and references Patrice Rushen’s 1982 hit “Forget Me Nots.”

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