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Cause in this game, there's no room for that religion shit Big K.R.I.T. – King, Pt. 3
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KRIT is trying to spread good value and peace through his rhymes, but it seems like no one wants to hear them. KRIT’s starting to feel run-down by all of the opposition to his messages–hence why he stated that he wanted to quit rapping later in the third verse.
As Kanye put it best: They say you can rap about anything except for Jesus
Rather the Bible than a rifle, what can balling teach us? Big K.R.I.T. – King, Pt. 3
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If the Bible teaches society to love one another for who they are and not to dwell on material possessions while balling teaches violence and the over-valuing of wealth, why do people choose to follow the doctrine of balling rather than religion? KRIT chose to follow religion so he could promote peace and wonders why today’s youth values guns over peace.
A shadow of your future self below a vast peak Nujabes (Ft. Substantial) – Waiting For The Clouds
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As Substantial falls deeper into his alcohol addiction, his dreams of being happy and successful are moving farther and farther out of reach with every sip.
That is without a doubt such a rare task Nujabes (Ft. Substantial) – Waiting For The Clouds
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Substantial is trying to get out of his pit of depression and he doesn’t want to turn to drugs to do it, but he feels like he might have to.
That's how I always seen it
I spent days faded and anemic
You could see it in my face, I ain't been eatin'
I'm just wastin' away Earl Sweatshirt – solace
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That's what the white man wanted when I rhyme
Telling me that he selling me just for $10.99
If I go platinum from rapping, I do the company fine
What if I compromise? He said it don't even matter
You make a million or more, you living better than average
You losing your core following, gaining it all Kendrick Lamar – untitled 03 | 05.28.2013.
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A lot of nowaday’s rappers are admittedly in the industry for the pure sake of making money. Lil B, however, could care less about the “dime a day” he makes from rapping; what he really cares about is speaking out against racism and rhyming away the prejudice that affect African Americans to this very day.
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He’s trying to deal with something he clearly can’t handle through the only way he can think of–by avoiding it. This is probably the emotional baggage that is currently overflowing, to the point where he can no longer suppress his feelings with a “black suit” facade.
This could also mean that Frank is going for something that is bigger than him: He wants to make it big, and “swimming good” is to say that he’s giving it all he has.
Don’t miss the fact that he is an Ocean. An actual ocean would be bigger than a Frank Ocean.
He says that he’s roaming around like he’s ready for a funeral ever since he lost his baby, so maybe he means that ever since he lost his baby, he wanted to commit suicide?
He drives the car in the ocean, he’s literally swimming from something bigger than him, that way he’ll die for sure.
I feel as though, he’s been going through a lot and he’s finally ready to push himself out of the “ocean” and swim out of the sadness. As it is common with depression to feel as though you are drowning, but he says swim good, as someone said earlier that he’s going to put all his effort into that.
“I’m going up” could mean he’s coming out of his sadness and it’s his sadness journey so he doesn’t want to be “saved” he wants to do it himself
I believe he means that by him killing himself he is avoiding all of these issues that are bigger than him