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A subtle alteration alluding to L.G. Wise’s album Me Vs. Industry:

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This is a metaphor, utilizing a pun on Rosetta Stone, meaning that if you want to learn my language, that is, get to my level as a rapper, you’ll have to acquire the ability to spit rhymes as hot as gunfire.

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This is a metaphor, utilizing a pun on Rosetta Stone, meaning that if you want to be on Big Teach’s level, you’ll have to learn to spit rhymes as hot as gunfire from a Beretta.

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Having taught in various contexts and at several different age levels, Conti has a greater authority to speak on these issues. He’s not an ivory-tower education professor who’s never been on the ground. Pedagogically speaking, dude’s got:

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An allusion to the controversy surrounding the Confederate Flag: while some people obviously find it very offensive, others believe it to be a symbol of heritage, not hate –

However, it must clearly be stated that the Confederate and Southern heritage is comprised of hate!

This fact is unfortunate but true. We need real, honest dialogue on the matter, which I was trying to accomplish before it was musically mainstream:

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A common thematic boast of many rappers are their voluminous sexual conquests. To each his own, but 2 Chainz can keep his

one wife, a mistress, and a girlfriend

My wife is attractive, intelligent, and a wonderful partner and mother:

THAT’S ALL I NEED!

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Seraphim, literally meaning the “burning ones,” are angels in the Judeo-Christian tradition.

Powerful in their own right, I here employ them as an even more frightening image since on this occasion they are not angels from God but from an angered Satan, the implication being that my rhymes should terrify my opponent as much as encountering a demonic angel would.

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Originally from a line in Walt Whitman’s poem Song Of Myself, a YAWP is simply a loud cry, often uttered to proclaim one’s freedom.

YAWP was then further popularized by this scene from Dead Poet’s Society:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S6xyHna-NuM#t=65

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This simile portrays the concept of truth as frustratingly insufficient. It only covers you partially, failing to completely ward off frigid reality, disturbing your sleep like a blanket two sizes too small.

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