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Steve Grand may be the next upcoming country/pop music star, and by the way he’s a gay man!
While he is not the first gay country musician, “All-American Boy” is notable for how normal, and timeless, he makes this homosexual tale of unrequited young love seem: it’s as American as the 4th of July!
The video, made on a shoestring budget of $7,000 with a maxed-out credit card, was uploaded on July, 2, 2013 and within a week had over 500,000 views.
That says a lot about progress! Check out this interview for more on Steve’s new perspective on the All-American Boy.
(Compare to, say, Kenny Chesney’s “American Kids.”)
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Jay has a rendezvous with fate. In addition, his actual date, Beyoncé, was in Destiny’s Child.
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Any person who’s lived the struggle can relate to Jay’s well known beginnings at the bottom in Marcy Projects. While others claim destitute origins, everybody knows Hov is the real deal.
‘Relate’ also implies that, if you’re from the bottom too, you’re like a family relation to Jay.
The line may also be spoken ironically, aimed at rich, primarily white listeners who judge him and other black people in the ghetto through lenses of stereotypes. They see Jay-Z’s success but are ignorant of what really goes on in poor communities; they really can’t relate.
Similarly, anyone who criticizes Hov’s alleged excesses didn’t grow up with
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Neil Peart’s lyrics were inspired by Samuel Taylor Coleridge’s poem Kubla Khan, where Xanadu is the mysterious, exotic kingdom in which Khan resides.
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‘Getting ghost’ is slang for getting lost, so picture Jigga riding outta sight in a Rolls-Royce Ghost. Sounds familiar, right:
And I ain’t gon' tell you again, let’s get ghost in the Phantom
However, there is a double entendre here. ‘Getting ghost’ can also refer to receiving the Holy Ghost, that is, the Spirit of Christ, in Pentacostal worship. In fact, this is Jay’s background, as some of his
Ironically, however, Hov now refers to himself as secular, and he only gets the divine presence (the Ghost) from the material pleasures of his worldview – non-religious – instead of from church.
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A clever turn of phrase, since, geographically at least, there is a lot above the South:
Yet Bun is metaphorically asserting the region’s superiority, in which case there ain’t nothing gonna top it.
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The OG RAP GENIUS, Bun B is both a gangster and an intellectual, as evidenced by his tenure as “Professor Trill” at Rice University, co-teaching the course Religion and Hip-Hop.
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Hov got that back pain jewelry – specifically an 11-pound Cuban Link. Chain heavy already, it hang low and wobble to the flo'.
Although once claiming to have 11, Hov acknowledges here that he is chasing a championship ring given to winning teams in North American sports.
The task might have become more difficult after selling his stake in the Brooklyn Nets, but now his boutique sports agency Roc Nation Sports represents athletes from numerous codes. One of the agency’s clients is NBA All-Star Kevin Durant, so maybe a championship ring isn’t that far off after all.
Anything to do with kanye’s “Chain Heavy” song?