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or not, 'cause my bedroom rocks Watsky – Pale Kid Raps Fast
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Or he’ll choose not to chase his dreams of fame and fortune and continue living his sheltered, unfamous life, simply because he likes where he is in life right now and wouldn’t change it.

“my bedroom rocks” could also be a reference to the song Bedrock which would be the kind of music that those who ‘settle for their pop’ would be listening to and you could make the case that he’s either ok with this music himself or that he realizes it’s just how things are right now

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'Cause racism has no context Lupe Fiasco – All Black Everything
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There is no Racism in lu’s world race is basically a matter of skin colour (Hitler’s theories were mostly based on skin shades and colour)…this line continues from the previous line: if we don’t pay attention to skin colours, there would be no racism…

In Lu’s alternate history, racism would not exist because there was no reason for it to. Racism is always founded on some deeper context. Distaste for black people started with the Europeans' first explorations into Africa and interacting with tribalism, and this continued all through enslavement of africans, the anti-abolitionist period, civil rights movement, into today’s subtle racist tendencies. Even the fear and racism expressed towards Jews has a context of early christian society’s need for bankers. Racism does not just come out of nowhere.

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President Bush sends condolences from Iran
Where Fox News reports live Lupe Fiasco – All Black Everything
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Continuing with the clever opposites of the song, George Bush is attending Ahmadinejad’s Nobel/Mandela Peace Prize acceptance and sends his condolences on Malcolm X’s passing. Lupe’s got no love for Fox News, since they have a right-wing bias (Nas ain’t a fan either..), and here in Lupe’s alternate history, Fox is reporting on the Nobel/Mandela prize proceedings live, something that they never do in the real world as all they report from Iran is prerecorded. All a cover up as shown in various documentaries. Genius.

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That Ahmadinejad wins the Mandela Peace Prize Lupe Fiasco – All Black Everything
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Ahmadinejad is the President of Iran who supposedly rigged the election in 2009 in Iran, and suppressed riots and protests which rejected the election results. He’s is known for his anti-American stand, his a̶n̶t̶i̶-̶S̶e̶m̶i̶t̶i̶c̶ and anti-Zionistic stands. He is also trying to build a nuclear factory. The Western world and Israel claims its going to be a nuclear bomb, he dissents. He says its for civilian industrial use.

He’s known for his belligerent attitude. Him winning a Peace prize is laughable. This line means that in Lupe’s fictional world, Ahmadinejad would not be the oppressive leader that he is, and he would win the peace prize, named after Nelson Mandela, a famed peace bringer in South Africa, instead of after Alfred Nobel, the man who invented dynamite.

Lupe seems to think that Alfred Nobel is the last person a peace prize should be named after, even though Nobel was P.O.ed that his accidental invention was being used for violence and assassination attempts, and that the peace movement was very dear to Nobel’s heart and to him the peace prize was the most important.

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ahmadinejad is not anti semitic, its you looking at his stands with a zionist view. Lupe sure share the same stand with Ahmadinejad especially on the palestinian problems, tge top annotation is so misleading.

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Mandela did not bring peace to South Africa, he helped to end Apartheid, but he (in our reality) was not a peaceful man. He actually supported the use of violence in order to further the cause, but maybe in Lupe’s world, since there was no racism, no Apartheid, Mandela was not a violent man, so it makes sense they would name a peace prize after him.

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look man ! im an iranian and i’ve just been readin lupe’s all black every thing and i think meaning of that last line when lupe talks about mandela peace prize going to ahmadinejad (my president) is nothing like what you’ve described!
look at least cut out that insults to our president and my country ! do not speak about what you have no idea about ! we are not making nuke bombs ! i think you are strongly influenced by that fox news that every one including lupe loves (actually hate)
i think if we realy look at this line with the same pattern that lupe discribed the other comparsions , results will be different !
i think lupe is sayin in that fantasy world that actually is a very nice and amazing world they would appreciate ahmadi nejad !
just think about it ! he is sayin in that world there is no racism and there is justice and in that world they would appreciate ahmadi nejad !
i strongly recommend you to have a second thought about that line ! i think lupe thinks that ahmadi nejad deserves a peace prize(in this world) and in this world they will not give it to him (just like other stuff that are against justice in this world like racism stuff) in a million years but in that fantasy world they will!
look its simply like this
in this world there is racism and there is no justice and ahmadi nejad will never win a peace pize (which actually is true) ! but in fantasy world there is complete justice and no racism and ahmadi nejad wins a peace prize!
i think lupe is tryin to stand against all media (like fox) and say ahmadi nejad is not an evil monster that you made people think he is !

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And that's because I'm flyer than the mothership, you ostrich Childish Gambino – I Be On That
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Ostriches cannot fly.

Allusion to the song “Black Republicans” by Lil' Wayne ft. Juelz Santana. Santana writes that he is “flyer than an ostrich,” so Childish Gambino spins this – he is not only flyer than an ostrich (an animal that has no ability of flight), but he is also “flyer than the mothership.”

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Ain't nothin' to it, gangsta rap made me do it Ice Cube – Gangsta Rap Made Me Do It
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Ice Cube is criticizing one of the most ridiculous wars of our time, and the many losses of life that have occurred there. Even if rap is a negative influence on people’s thinking, don’t be a fucking hypocrite while the US is still in Iraq.

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The line may also be a reference to the 1999 movie “Three Kings”, in which Ice Cube stars alongside George Clooney and Mark Wahlberg. The three play US soldiers in Iraq who try to steal Saddam Hussein’s gold stash following the Gulf War.

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Canadabis Eminem – Square Dance
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This can be seen as both a Canibus and Canada diss!

Canibus and Eminem never saw eye to eye and LL Cool J, another foe of Canibus, once alleged that he was born in Canada in “Back Where I Belong”

And you really from Canada / And you been fronting all this time

Though he was really born in Kingston…

Eminem also had beef with the U.S.’s neighbors to the north, because his songs

constitute hate propaganda and thus are in violation of the Canadian Criminal Code

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At the time, there were discussion about banning Eminem from performing in Canada.

Ontario wants rap star barred — The Globe and Mail
Ontario's Attorney-General wants Ottawa to stop popular U.S. rap music star Eminem from entering Canada because he says his songs "advocate violence against women. Physical, graphic violence against women."

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Eminem also refers to Canibus allegedly being from Canada in the disstrack Canibitch “ are you a janitor from Canada ” in the chorus of that track, which seems to have taken heavy influence from this song, considering its popularity.

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A common stereotype about Canadians are that they are too nice. Canibus has mentioned multiple times that he’s too nice. Most notably on 2000 B.C. where he says “The Canibus is too nice”. Eminem uses it against him saying that he’s too nice to beat Eminem.

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A common stereotype about Canadians are that they are too nice. Canibus has mentioned multiple times that he’s too nice. Most notably on 2000 B.C. where he says “The Canibus is too nice”. Eminem uses it against him saying that he’s too nice to beat Eminem.

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horoscope and eat some hors d'oeuvres Ludacris (Ft. Nate Dogg) – Area Codes
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Whore-oscopes and whore-d'oeuvres, Ludacris is just making puns by using these words. But Hors d'oeuvre could also be considered quite an upscale dish, something you would be eating if you were wining and dining with Luda.

This theme was probably the inspiration for this sketch

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