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Everyone should give up trying to best him, he’s on the throne of the rap game.
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Common speaks of how poverty stricken(cashless bundles) youth(mentioned in the previous line) are brought together and form gangs in order to survive in the projects. He suggests that they do what they can to survive, such as he does in the following line about hustling for a form of income.
Also rubber bands hold together bundles of cash literally.
Troy, Mark, and Lil' What’s-His-Name The Roots – I Remember
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Roamin' around like I'm ready for a funeral (Wow) Frank Ocean – Swim Good
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The sovereign nation of France was openin' they files on the UFO phenomenon: i.e. spaceships
It's just the facts, Jack may as well face it Jay Electronica – Eternal Sunshine (The Pledge)
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SEPRA, formerly GEIPAN has been collecting cases of UFO phenomenon since 1977. While people were spending thousands of dollars on jewelry in they were unaware that as of March of 2007, the French government had published more than 1600 of these documented cases to a public website.
Jay believes that due to our vanity, we are distracted from facts that even today many are not aware of.
The use of “X” is also an intelligent play on the idea of something being unknown–with “X” amount of dollars and “Unidentified” Flying Objects.
- Due to its immediate following of an Elijah Muhammad quote, “X” could easily be a shoutout to how the Nation of Islam’s ministers adopted “X” as their last name to separate themselves from the ones forced upon them by their ancestors' slave owners. This could also be a more direct reference to Malcom X, who was Elijah Muhammad’s right hand man (before being essentially excommunicated from the Nation of Islam by him) who handled all of his public relations and fostered the development of the Nation’s most successful churches.
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Symbolizing the new world water as government and the idea of Democracy. It says that Democracy used to be pure and a perfect idea to give people a voice in their government, but now people complain about how their voices don’t matter and governments are overrun by corruption.
Water is full of chemicals.
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Flint, Michigan.
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The earth produces what we need to live. Once man started to engineer the resources for his own purposes, everything changed.
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In a more literal sense it refers to the fact that fresh, drinkable water used to be very common when compared to today, and now rather than having minerals and zinc it’s full of lead and stink.