Cole playing on both of the imperatives stated above by combining them: if life’s a bitch, he wants to sleep with her (sort of like Kanye) and he feels like he should fuck the world (like Tupac’s song). In both cases, he won’t finish until he’s ejaculated, which he hasn’t done yet, so he has to keep fighting to succeed

Also, implying that; as both Nas and Pac were famous enough to be quoted, he will one day be similarly referenced in songs

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J. Cole attempts to educate his audience, and thus helps them see the light. Similarly, if you’re in prison the only real view of the sun you get is when you get time outside in the prison yard

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Callback to the Dr. Dre line from The Next Episode, one of the all-time classics. Ye takes it a step further though and, as usual, makes it all about Ye…

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Be is Beyonce. But if Jay’s your brother, and Be’s your sister, and Be and Jay are sleeping together…

sister….. in-law?

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Meezy
May 11th, 2013

Be is his little sister because she’s with Jay…

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Kanye plays on Jay’s proclamation on “Show Me What You Got” that “I am the Mike Jordan of recording, you might want to fallback from recording”

Kanye, as the producer of his own songs, plays around on the recording soundboard (just like Michael Jordan would slap the backboard after making one of his famous dunks) — it could also refer to the Billboard charts, with Kanye’s “slapping” being high-charting tracks

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Jeff Gordon is a dominant Nascar racer whose racing number is “24” — the same as Kobe Bryant

Kanye thinks Bryant is the 2nd best basketball player ever — after Chicago’s Michael Jordan

Yeezy seems to have fed off his “Swagga Like Us” line:

I’m trynna get that Kobe number one over Jordan

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December 19th, 2012

The “Michael Jordan the only one more important” line is also a reference to Brand New:

The survey says by the streets according
Kanye just important as Michael Jordan
Was to the NBA, when he was scorin'
The only person more important to the city of Chicago than Kanye West is Michael Jordan. That’s his big fascination with Kobe: they have the same goal. Kobe wants to be better than Jordan at hoop, Yeezy wants to be bigger than Jordan in Chi-Town.

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If you don’t want another war, don’t let Funkmaster Flex anywhere near your enemies. He loves to put air horn and bomb sound effects on his mixtapes (note the sound effect in the background)

On a meta level, the entire third verse is framed around America’s conflict in the Middle East. Political analysts have compared the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan to the Vietnam War in that they are the two longest wars America has ever fought. By ending with Funkmaster Flex and the Korean bombs imagery, Kanye is stating his hopes that the US' ongoing tensions with North Korea don’t escalate into another bloody war.

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October 6th, 2012

It’s a triple entendre.
Bombs: his lyrics, the sound effects that Funkmaster Flex often uses, and actual bombs being dropped that would intitiate a war. Ye' doesn’t want the United States to get into another war.

marcamillion
August 23rd, 2012

‘Ye is also be playing on the fact that Funkmaster Flex always plays 'hits’ first…i.e. he debuts hot songs…aka a ‘bomb’. When a hot song or bomb is played in a club, the club explodes with excitement.

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