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This line is a play on the phrase “on a roll” and “role model.” Tina Fey, herself, has enjoyed incredible success in her career by being herself and showing honesty, so she herself is “on a roll.” But she is also a role model for CG.

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“Crazy In Love” is the ridiculously successful lead single from Beyoncé’s first solo album Dangerously In Love.

Penned by Beyoncé and Rich Harrison, the song revolves around falling in love and doing things you wouldn’t normally do without a care. The inspiration for the song struck after Beyoncé looked at herself in the mirror in the studio and thought she was looking crazy, which lead to Harrison coming up with the hook.

We just couldn’t figure out what to write with it. I was looking crazy with my clothes. And I kept saying, “I’m looking crazy right now” and he said, “That’s the hook!

The song ended up topping the charts in both the US and the UK in 2003, making it the only one to do so in that year. Additionally, it earned the singer two GRAMMY Awards in 2004 for Best R&B Song and Best Rap/Sung Collaboration.

This was the second collaborative effort between JAY-Z and Beyoncé who were dating at the time. Bey asked Jay to write a verse for the song on the night she had to turn her album in. The hook is sampled from “Are You My Woman (Tell Me So)” by the Chicago group The Chi-Lites.

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Chew Fu and Substantial rap this sentimental tune over Daft Punk’s “Make Love”

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This line refers to the story of Noah’s Ark, which is found in Genesis Ch 6-9.

In the Judeo-Christian mythos, God sends a flood to destroy the world and Noah (with his ark and everything therein) is set adrift for 40 days and nights. The ark came to rest on Mt. Ararat. Noah then sent out doves to search for dry land.

Mayweather is basically saying that her love for Greendown will weather whatever storms and trials come their way.

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A reference to Baby Milo, who is one of the mascots of the Bathing APE clothing company (BAPE), while Cee-lo is a gambling game played with three six-sided dice.

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Plato was Socrates' prime student. Most of what we know of Socrates is contained in his writings.

While at an event for NYPL supporting Decoded, Jay called himself Plato to Biggie’s Socrates. However, the idea first came to him while visiting a Princeton seminar with Cornel West, who recalled the encounter:

Jay Z did come to class as a result of that. He came to my class… I had been talking about Plato and Socrates and how he said “I am going to preserve the memory of my teacher for as long as I live, and I am in deep mourning for Socrates who died unfairly, and I will make sure that the world never forgets that there was once a man named Socrates”. And that’s when Jay-Z said: I am Plato to Biggie’s Socrates. Isn’t that a beautiful thing?

Jay is attempting to do just this. By living the life Biggie can no longer live, and continuing to “ball”, Jay keeps his memory alive. He uses a basketball metaphor to compare his figurative balling/stunting to the actual ballers who screech their sneakers on the hardwood, similar to a line of his from “So Ambitious”.

This is a double entendre also as it could be heard both as All for play though, screech AND All for Plato though, screech

The subsequent lines begin a basketball metaphor which shows Jay-Z tight wordplay in being able to switch/end topics with beautiful entendres.

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Rapper money is nice, but actor money is even better since you can demand to be paid $20+ million regardless of how terrible the movie is!

Kanye remembers Amber that men aren’t interested in her for her personality or anything like that, she’s just seen as a trophy girl since everybody knows that if she’s someone it’s only because of his wealth.

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The final song of My Beautiful Twisted Dark Fantasy, “Who Will Survive in America” is an abridged version of Gil Scott-Heron’s “Comment #1” that paints a bleak outlook for Kanye’s future and summarizes the entire album: is all the decadence of fame and fortune worth it? What do we lose in the process? And does it really make a difference in the end? The song flows immediately from the end of the previous track “Lost In The World”.

Kanye has always been a big proponent of Scott-Heron samples, whether on his own material (Late Registration’s “My Way Home” features an instantly recognizable bit from “Home Is Where the Hatred Is”) or on production for others (Common’s “The People” takes “We Almost Lost Detroit”).

Scott-Heron died six months after the release of My Beautiful Dark Twisted Fantasy at the age of 62. Kanye performed both “Lost in the World” and “Who Will Survive in America” at his memorial service.

In August 2017, comedy legend Chris Rock (who is featured on “Blame Game”) revealed on Questlove’s podcast QLS (Questlove Supreme) that he was instrumental in pushing for this song to be the outro for the album. Good call!

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The original cut of “POWER” became famous in part for Kanye’s stinging diss of NBC’s flagship comedy program Saturday Night Live, so when it was announced that Kanye would be performing on SNL everyone was giddy in anticipation to hear the rhymes on the show. Instead, this verse was used as a replacement to the original second verse. These bars are probably no longer relevant to Ye, though, for he’s performed on SNL on more than one occasion.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xuhl6Ji5zHM

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cc92gEMHKpM

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The second single from The Lonely Island’s debut album Incredibad, this song covers a topic that affects millions of men young and old. Part mental and part physical. Premature ejaculation can have a debilitating effect on one’s sex life or even worse, as TLI illustrates with this song, on just about every little thing you do.

The music video was shot in NYC in September of 2008 and features guest appearances by Molly Sims, Jamie-Lynn Sigler, and Justin Timberlake.

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