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Speed Racer, a Japanese manga originally, was then adapted as an American comic and cartoon series in the late ‘60s.
The dubbing for the cartoon can get unusually fast paced and energetic, so much so that sometimes one wouldn’t be able to tell where sentences ended and began again. It would be as if the script had zero punctuation. This clip being a prime example.
Mike also does write this bar in a way that drives his point home, as he intentionally falls off beat.
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One of the main controversial issues regarding rapper MF DOOM is that he would not attend his own shows, and instead have an imposter stand in. The common justification is that this is done intentionally as his character is in fact “the super villain”.
Mike refers to him to point out that with most rappers, listeners won’t be able to get a sense of substance from them, for it’s what they lack.
Top flight attitude
Close to yellin' "Pop pop!" like Magnitude Open Mike Eagle (Ft. P.O.S.) – Why Pianos Break
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A reference to the TV comedy series Community with recurring minor character Magnitude (which is actually a portmanteau of “magnetic attitude”). His catch phrase happens to be, you guessed it:
This along with ‘top flight’ could allude to the popping one’s ears might do on a plane due to the decrease in air pressure.
The line itself just means Mike is feeling good and getting hyped up.
"What? Who? When? Why? Where? How?"
I don’t see Luchini falling from the sky right now J-Live – The Fun Razor
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Intense Imagination is the whole crew involved in producing their content. This includes Casey Chan and Andrew Kurchinski, who direct and edit most of the music videos.
Then there’s EOM… who makes mad beats.
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Both emcees on this track paint pictures of the respective cities they hail from. Surreal’s perspective is of one who was raised in Tampa, FL, which peaked as the 9th most dangerous city in the US over the years.
Don’t let the pretty night skyline fool you….
Trying to stop the bleeding to all these faulty insurances
And sure as shit, there ain't no guarantees
Except we're born, and we die, and we share the air we breathe Intuition (Ft. Raquel Rodriguez) – Hold Your Breath
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But no one's quite as cool as your boy is Intuition (Ft. Raquel Rodriguez) – Hold Your Breath
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These are the bars he refers to as being “recycled”, or used on a previous verse. That verse being the one he does on Summer Breeze
http://youtu.be/r8wfUawji8A?t=52s
Means EOM should get 30k everytime he makes a beat.