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Moses parted the Red Sea to first let his people pass through, and then he closed the waters again as the Egyptians were making pursuit, thus killing them (Exodus 14:21-29).
The point of this simile is that JFKilla’s flows are just as dangerous.
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This verse, which describes the plight of those cast into Hell, is alluded to in Kanye West’s “Mercy”:
Well, it is a weeping and a moaning and a gnashing of teeth
It is a weeping and a mourning and a gnashing of teeth
It’s also referenced in canto 3 of Dante’s Commedia:
There sighs, complaints, and ululations loud
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The biblical Gospels report two occasions where Jesus miraculously multiplied small amounts of loaves and fish to feed thousands of people.
The so-called Feedings of the Multitude are utilized by Don Dada as an analogy: Jesus fed the crowds with thousands of pieces of bread and fish, but I’ve got more bread (money) and fish (drugs) than that on a daily basis.
Smoothed by long fingers,
Asleep … tired … or it malingers,
Stretched on the floor, here beside you and me T.S. Eliot – The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock
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The personification of the afternoon and evening as sleeping peacefully beside Prufrock at first draws a sharp contrast with his own existential turmoil.
The sleeping evening recalls the sky like an etherized patient from the beginning of the poem, but now it’s not so certain whether the evening is actually unconscious, or just tired, or just pretending to be asleep (“malingering”). It’s also not stretched out over the whole sky anymore: it has crept inside and lies right next to the speaker and his conversational partner. This afternoon/evening is not necessarily as peaceful as it looks.
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An etheree is a form of poetry consisting “of 10 lines of 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10 [ascending] syllables. Etheree can also be reversed and written 10, 9, 8, 7, 6, 5, 4, 3, 2, 1.” – Shadow Poetry
This poem features a double etheree, one ascending and one descending – both playing off a pun with the title of Nas' diss track against Jay-Z: “Ether.”
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