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The Ford Escort is a small family car that was manufactured by Ford Europe from 1968 to 2004. The Ford Escort name was also applied to several different small cars produced in North America by Ford between 1981 and 2003.

Also a reference to Kanye West’s line on “Stronger”:

Damn they don’t make em like this anymore

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Dope track from our boy–samples the dirty “When They Fight, They Fight” by the Generationals

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Drake started telling his life story, then became a world-famous rapper selling out arenas. That, in turn, made ‘history’, because he’s such a huge performer and ‘his story’ because he changed the lives (stories) of his crew members as well. This line is, as we pointed out, the first real groaner of the record.

Drake’s experiences are the basis of imitation by other rappers, i.e., he made it cool to be vulnerable/introspective.

Also, Drake is referring to the “realest nigga” in the previous line saying that Drake’s own story was so relatable to the “realest niggas” story that it also made it “HIS-STORY.”

Used in the same way that Michael Jackson did for his album, HIStory. His story as in Drake’s story, and history as stuff for the record books.

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Alisha is Drake’s ex, mentioned in “Successful”, who he tried to marry.

Catya Washington (a.k.a. Ms. Cat) is also Drake’s ex. She was featured in the “Best I Ever Had” video and was a cast member of the reality show Bad Girls Club.

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A luxury five-star hotel located in Paris. The cheap rooms start at 720 Euros a night, and suites can run up to 4,000 Euros. Hov and Yeezy happened to spend quite a bit of time here, recording a few of the songs off of Watch the Throne in their hotel rooms

While at the Le Meurice Jay-Z’s wife, Beyoncé, was with him. They stayed in a $20,000 a night multi-floor suite. Also, if we’re to believe “Glory”, this is where Blue Ivy was conceived.

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When Kanye came up, pushing a humble persona–at least, humble when compared to bumptious imbeciles like Ja Rule and Nelly–he was essentially the last of a dying breed in commercial hip-hop

Also, West on a compass is on the left side, get it?

Back before he was famous, fans who wanted to hear big acts like A Tribe Called Quest were disappointed when they had to settle for small fish like Kanye at live shows. The only reason he even gets on the stage at all is as a filler because he’s “all they got left”.

Funnily enough, later on in his career this was turned around as A Tribe Called Quest said they would perform their final shows on Kanye’s Yeezus Tour.

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The roofies are making a white girl begin to fall asleep–her eyes are narrowing, the way Asian eyes are stereotypically depicted.

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Tennis is the husband-and-wife duo of Patrick Riley and Alaina Moore, who perform electronically and doo-wop-influenced indie.

Their song “Marathon” is sampled in the hook.

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Taken generally, he doesn’t believe that the moon is within the province of America simply because the US sent a man there. In other words, the moon and rest of the cosmos don’t belong to any one person or nation.

He casts this sentiment within the context of a popular conspiracy theory that the moon landing was faked in order to boost national morale during the Cold War. It is also possible that he literally believes in this theory.

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