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The amount of wordplay in these two lines is a little insane.

4-5:
1. The points on a scoreboard, except the scores refer to who’s cumming first. It’s unclear if Kendrick is losing or winning at this point.
2. 4-5 is a street slang for speaking of about a gun, which holds .45 Caliber ammunition. Someone trying to tie the game.

“We shoot uzis” – Uzis are 9MM sub-machine guns. It’s a metaphor for either the sound of moaning or ejaculating (or cumming) or both.

Cinematic – movie or film-like characteristics. They performing a sex scene in a sense.

Cinematic may also be a reference to the climax in the plot of a movie, and they are “climaxing” in bed.

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A$AP explains a “jiggy nigga” as being a “pretty muthafucka like him.“ "Jiggy” means a couple of things: being fly, being sexy (or having sex), making something cool.

Notice the “owws.” Rocky references the infamous and controversial triple entendre by Jay-Z. Jay-Z (aka ‘Jigga That Nigga’), instead as an adlib. He also quotes Biggie’s line from Tracey Lee’s “Keep Your Hands High”:

So them rings and things you sing about, bring'em out
It’s hard to yell when the barrel’s in your mouth

Later sampled on T.I.’s hit “Bring ‘Em Out”.


The scenery of the next two lines imply that Rocky got horny by her actions.

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Just like poetry, Nature is indefinable. Note Dickinson’s definition of poetry, in which the words have meaning only in terms of the impact on the reader.

The negative “Nay” is an archaism which adds emphasis in the way “No” cannot. She ends the four lines by equating “Nature” and “Heaven”. So though she expresses the concept in concrete visual terms, ultimately it is as indefinable as the idea of “Heaven”.

This line is echoed by line eight.

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http://youtu.be/qVZyfsaKPS4

The first episode highlights B-boying as it follows a Trevor Drift, a boy, who discovers he is destined follow in the footsteps of his elders.

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“Haters gonna hate” is a common street phrase overlooking one’s attempt to have a negative affect on their life. This is usually a result of jealousy and/or envy.

The sequence, “players gonna play…haters gonna hate” is borrowed, though perhaps unintentionally, from 3LW’s “Playas Gon' Play”.

“Shake it off” means to free one’s self of a problem or being bothered. Mariah had a similar saying back in 2005; Jay-Z in 2003.

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Let’s be lonely together

Is an oxymoron. An oxymoron is a figure of speech in which apparently contradictory terms appear next to each other.

One can’t be truely lonely, if they are with someone else. The implication is that people are usually alone and stay inside on rainy days.

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#Valium

Is a legal benzodiazepine drug that is often used to treat anxiety, panic attacks and insomnia. It is a relaxant and often helps one “come down”. Skizzy Mars has referred to the Benzo’s in the past, like on “Douchebag”:

Seeing things, Xanax and Klonopin

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“In the throes” is a phrase for being in a middle of a struggle (maybe depression). The “throe” is a painful or hard struggle.


FOCUSING ON IMAGERY

Ruby red river and the darkening concrete:

  • Imagery alluding to a cave, a type of portal, as the river goes in one side and comes out the other.

  • Ruby red could symbolize the blood of people while darkening concrete symbolizes depression.

  • Others and herself (as she’s with them). River and concrete – blood and bones (or skin ). They are in pain while others are completely oblivious to their struggle. The “ghosts” that float by seem like people who are almost dead, and the river devours them and their souls.


Souls in the river may remind some of the film, Disney’s Hercules portraying the Underworld and the River Styx. Styx is one of the few rivers in Greek myth, that traverse realms of the real and spiritual worlds, and is filled with souls.

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https://twitter.com/Mike_Stud/statuses/251116164435038208

Amanda Bynes:”

Versace, Versace
My sushi is good and so is my sake

Can’t Stop Me:”

Never gonna flop no I’m not, Ricky Rubio
And I am on a roll, no sushi though

Enough said.


A dragon roll usually has sliced-eel-tops on it. Mike pronounces eel so it sounds similar to ill. He uses homophones to iterate that he’s dope.

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Jon explains to Billboard.com:

I wanted to create something comforting and soothing. Something opposite of where we are sonically in music right now. A big bowl of Imogen Heap and Phil Collins-esque ingredients with a Jon Bellion backbone. A brain massage with a gangster-ass outro.

He also explains in his video – the behind the scenes making of “Simple and Sweet”, that he envisioned his relationship with music (or just this track) similar to trying to please an attractive girl one has a strong want for.

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