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Apparently, her boyfriend’s charm and flirtatious maneuvers (mack game) are boring and extremely ineffective used up and obsolete, but Vizzy’s isn’t. “Mac is tired” plays on popular country songstress and actress, Reba McEntire’s, last name. When you

Mac is manufacturing cosmetic company and Reba isn’t really diverse in her choice of make up either.

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He represents Kansas everywhere he goes. Similar to his line in “Wichita”:

They hit my brother with ten years
He said don’t leave
I said, there’s no weave baby brother I’ve been here

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Zero Heroes, and many other mixtapes by X were released for free. In order to build a fan base. Hopefully when he does release an album, listeners will buy it to support and repay him for the free music in the past.

He references the legend of the “Pied Piper of Hamelin” who was promised to be paid by the Mayor if he could get rid of all the rats. Peter did, but the mayor retracted his promise. Now that’s f’d up!

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He occasionally makes references to him being the hero of the Dub, Kansas by getting it recognized.

It may also be a reference to Superman aka “our hero” who was first found in Kansas. ie. Smallville

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Still building off of the anchorman wordplay. They commonly say “coming live from/to.” Vizzy is anchoring from Wichita.

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XV will represent Kansas and Wichita until the day he dies. He isn’t going to stop until people recognize his talent. When he goes in and showcases his lyrics, the fans soon follow suit.

Creating metaphors to display how intense he is during his performances:

Notice the in/out. This becomes a double entendre, considering the shows over, the venue is closed. (show out, get it?)

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If you don’t know by now, he’s talking about Wichita. Now for some extensive homonym wordplay here:

  • Read/Blew – he listened and read rhymes that were either famous & became successful lines by other rappers or his own.He read them like bedtime stories before he went to sleep.

  • Red/Blue/Shoot-up:

  • – First these colors are representative of the enemy gangs, the Bloods and Crips who commonly shoot each other.

  • – Drawing similarities to the heroin line. A blew/blown up vein looks blue because of it’s dark hue. Blood is still red however. It’s called “shooting up” when you use a needle to inject drugs.

  • – “Shoot up” is also an idiom meaning something came randomly yet forcefully, give-or-take.

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Donnell Rawlings is an American comedian and actor best known for his utterances of “I’m rich, biaaaaatch!” on Chappelle’s Show.

He wants to simply get rich from music.

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A reference aforementioned Wizard Of Oz line made before. Dorothy and her friends followed the yellow brick road
to try and get to the Emerald City.

He’ll prove that there really isn’t a yellow brick road in Kansas with photos if you don’t believe him, just the paved ways and cotton fields Kansas are know for.

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XV plays on homophones: sole & soul.

A common phrase is to “feel something in your soul.”

The sole is the bottom of the foot, he wants them to feel his music in their souls like one would feel a rock at the bottom of their shoe.

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