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Wet = bloody clothes = dead. He’s saying Drake never hurt anyone, and his tough-guy braggadocio is laughable.

Drake hails from Toronto, Ontario, Canada. Not exactly Watts – or the South Side of Chicago.

Canada Dry is a brand of sodas and ginger ale. (Ginger ale is light and sweet and it’s also “pop” = soda or “pop” as in Drake’s true genre.)

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Kanye refers to T.I.’s 4th studio album King and compares himself to Larry Hoover, king of the Gangster Disciples of Chicago.

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The instrumental he is using is from Justice’s “Ohio”.

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Continuing the amusement park theme, Em wants to be able to take his daughter out, without being recognized and harassed by people. This is a sentiment Em has touched on in several songs, most memorably, perhaps, on “The Way I Am”:

But at least have the decency in you
To leave me alone, when you freaks see me out
In the streets when I’m eating or feeding my daughter
To not come and speak to me, I don’t know you
And no, I don’t owe you a mothafuckin' thing

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A famous song by James Brown.

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TI is from Atlanta and his wife Tiny (little pretty young thing) was in the female R&B group Xscape (escape).

Some listeners say it sounds like “skate”, not “escape”… referencing the 2006 film ATL, which starred TI and revolved around roller skating.

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Nicki starts off her verse by exploiting the first of three different meanings of “monster.” In this case, “monster” means big. Furthermore, Nicki is starting up her verse like dramatically arriving on the scene in a car.

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Reynolds Aluminum foil.

The concept of wearing a tin foil hat for protection from attacks on one’s brainwaves has become a popular stereotype and term of derision; it is a symbol for paranoia and persecutory delusions, and is associated with conspiracy theorists.

The actor who lent his name to this song also wore a foil hat for his role in ‘Signs’

(Keeps with the kitchen theme. Also, this can tie back into the sexual motif in the first half of this verse: fitted hat = jimmy hat = condom – wrapped up.)

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A reference to the characters Officer Danny “Pac Man” McGavin and Officer Bob Hodges (played by Sean Penn and Robert Duvall) from the 1988 film Colors.

“the Pac Man day came” also plays into the line above about Bishop’s death (who was played by 2Pac) and serves as a transition from Juice to Colors.

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Lord of War is 2005 movie in which Nicolas Cage plays a morally conflicted arms dealer. His brother is played by Jared Leto.

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