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Fiend for this rappin' I never dropped my Heineken Natural – 20 Something
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Even though Nat is a fiend for rap, he hasn’t been in a shoot out like the fiend who dropped his brew in Nas' story.

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'Bout to walk off, Big Papi with the bat flip Natural – 20 Something
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David Ortiz is pretty famous for flamboyantly flipping his bat after he goes deep.

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Up Down Freestyle Kool A.D. – Up Down Freestyle
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Track 18 on Kool A.D.’s 100-track O.K. mixtape. Kool freestyles over T-Pain’s “Up Down (Do This All Day)” produced by DJ Mustard.

Kool says “Yo, I murdered that Up & Down beat, man” on PEACEFUL SOLUTIONS ‘Try Me’: https://koolandkass.bandcamp.com/track/try-me

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20 Something Natural – 20 Something
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“20 Something” serves as the outro for the same titled project “Natural” dropped on 9/11/2012. The song fuses together many of the themes found throughout the project.

The overall scope of the track focuses on 3 major points. The first verse explores love and heartbreak in this day and age. The tough questions and answers of choosing between someone you love and a lifestyle you love lead.

The second explores themes of family, loyalty and crime. The struggle of this day in age with the economy and the tougher choices people need to select. I have clearly chosen a life without crime, though remain a stone throw away from it.

The third culminates with the idea of hip-hop as a philosophy and a career. It again visits the themes of the economy, however, through the scope of a struggling artist. The verse serves as an acknowledgement of the lifestyle and an acceptance. I am here to do this the right way.

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Gun Hill Road made them summers feel cold Childish Gambino – ​centipede
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Gun Hill Road is a street located in the Bronx borough of New York City, Gambino spent several years in New York throughout his college and high school years.

He also lived in NYC when he was very young, though he spent most of his adolescent years in Georgia. He attended high school at Lakeside High in Dekalb County, GA. And later returned to NY to attend NYU.

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Say my name 3 times like Beetlejuice Chip – La Bamba
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Beetlejuice appears out of thin air when you say his name 3 times in a row.

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Ain't-got-the-bud-but-show-up-with-a-ol-Swisher-ass nigga Danny Brown – #HottestMC
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Danny is talking shit about people that show up with no weed trying to smoke, not talking himself up.

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ah I think you’re right…he’s talking about an annoying Detroit dude who is pestering him in this line, the prior line and the next line.

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And she like my shoes so I put it in her kiester Danny Brown – #HottestMC
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The blondest bitch in Australia liked his style and let him hit it from behind!

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Play on the common pick up like “Nice shoes, wanna fuck”

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It's the hybrid like I wrote it in papyrus Danny Brown – #HottestMC
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In Monopoly on XXX, Danny starts the song off with

“The Hybrid smoking on Papaya"…,

Meaning “Hey, it’s Danny Brown and I’m smoking some weed”.

This time I think Danny is more like “Hey, it’s Danny Brown, and I’ve been doing this for so long that it’s like I wrote my nickname in this ancient Egyptian typeface, Papyrus.”

When he released Papyrus in 1982, Chris Costello described his goal was a font that would represent what English language texts would have looked like if written on papyrus 2000 years ago.

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Its the hybrid of the paper (papyrius) and what he wrote.

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A hybrid is “a thing made by combining two different elements; a mixture”.

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#HottestMC Danny Brown – #HottestMC
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An outtake from Danny’s debut 2013 debut album Old, originally titled “Rap God”. He changed it slightly as a reaction to ‘MTV’s Hottest MC in the Game VIII’ list.

He also said he wasn’t dissing anyone in particular.

Here’s some more from Danny on why he’s mad at the list.

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