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This girl is immature and loves jokes concerning butts, but she hates being on the other end of a joke. Morale of the story: don’t make a joke unless you can handle being on the other side of it!

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Fresco is referencing a moment in Stanley Kubrick’s film adaption of the novel, The Shining, in which Jack Torrence is going crazy from solitude and writes “All work and no play makes Jack a dull” hundreds of times to emphasize how bored the girl is.

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Double Entendre

  • Money is saying that he’s going to shoot this guy with his TEC-9

  • He’s going to tear this guy down with raps that are as good as Tech-Ny9ne’s.

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Double Entendre Alert

  • No matter how much knowledge this girl gives Gill, he’ll never be able to understand the world and all of its injustices

  • Brain is slang for a blowjob, so Gill’s saying that he’s trying to alleviate his problems with sex, but nothing eases the pain of feeling that the world is out to get you.

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You can take yourself out of a bad environment. You can stop dealing/doing drugs. You can be the best person that you can, but you may still be persecuted for your past or stereotypes. Mos Def knows that although he’s at the top of his game, there’s still racists out to get him. If MLK Jr. was shot at his prime, than Mos Def can too.

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Here, Def is explaining the reason for his passion towards the subject of racist, police brutality. Here, he is saying that he feels an obligation to speak up because he used to be one of the people who are being terrorized–and he still is. He may have moved out of the hood, but he is still branded as just another project troublemaker by the police. Def is declaring a call to arms, he is calling all blacks to spread the word and rebel against those who are killing their kin. Mos Def hasn’t forgotten where he’s come from, and he hopes that you haven’t either.

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Since Mos Def is black, he feels Diallo’s pain. Since Diallo was shot because he was black, it just as easily could have been Mos Def with 19 bullets in his body. This is why Mos Def feels that he needs to spread awareness of these brutalities, because he feels the victims' pain.

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Senators generally are said to speak for the people, but usually are biased towards the middle-class, suburban white-families. Similarly to how the senators represent them, rappers represent the poor blacks. The media tends to neglect the poor blacks, so they need someone to speak for them, tell their stories, and fight for change. That person is Mos Def.

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A lot of rappers from Brooklyn who were big at this time were The Notrious B.I.G. and the artist formerly known as Jay-Z. Also, Mos Def was born and raised in Brooklyn as well.

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One of the most notable rappers out of Compton at this time was Dr. Dre, who at this time was doing a lot of producing while also mentoring Eminem. Compton is a city that is notorious for gang violence.

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