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A quote from “Hypnotize” by the The Notorious B.I.G.
I'm sharp as a tack, I'm black and I'm feelin' alive
Señoritas on the floor three-quarters naked
The DJ was bangin' that, "We gon' make it!" Jay Electronica – 2 Step
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Jay just got to the club and is ready to get down. In the club, they’re playin' “We Gonna Make It”, a Jadakiss song featuring Styles P.
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I switched up the beat of the drum Kelis (Ft. Too $hort) – Bossy
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She’s referencing a hip-hop classic, the Roland TR-808 Rhythm Composer. It was one of the first programmable drum machines.
Something that Kanye West also spoke of.
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Living in my glass house
Steady throwing rocks through it
I never stopped feeling the love for ya
I just stopped being the one for ya Jean Grae – U&Me&EveryoneWeKnow
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Jean puns on two cliches here:
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- “People in glass houses shouldn’t throw stones”
The original glass houses proverb has been traced back to Geoffrey Chaucer’s ‘Troilus and Criseyde’. George Herbert wrote in 1651: ‘Whose house is of glass, must not throw stones at another.’
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Young Stunna is a rapper born in Nigeria. He now resides in the United States.
BAPE is a reference to the shoe/clothing line, A Bathing Ape which has been mentioned in many other rap songs, including The Game’s “Wouldn’t Get Far” when he mentioned it in reference to a certain young lady.
No young Stunna is lil Wayne
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This is a incorrect. It’s “told Young Stunna (producer) he should switch the bass” which is why the immediate line after is referencing the 808, a drum synthesizer from the 80s that has been used in hip hop for ages…
Young Stunna is a reference to Lil Wayne.
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i think she’s actually referring to lil wayne aka young stunna here. wayne’s “father” often refers to himself as the no. 1 stunna, making wayne the “young stunna.” furthermore, wayne’s fascination with the clothing brand a bathing ape was well documented at this time.