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“The Ride” is Drake’s way of steering the audience through three distinct stages in his career, all of which that detail the artist’s evolving outlook on wealth, fame, and fortune. “The Ride” is the last (outro) song on Drake’s 2012 sophomore album and a collaboration with Abel Tesfaye, who supplements the song with simplistic, yet melodic, background vocals. Surely one of the greatest pieces from two of Toronto’s biggest artist, this song will always serve as a glorious moment for all who forever rep OVOXO.

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Track #15 from Fifty’s ‘Massacre’. Dre and Elizondo are to blame for this classic beat. Back in the days when Curtis was going hard!

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Is this salvation or resignation with reality’s hard knocks? Just giving up without fight?

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Fairly good pun! Literally, ‘down one degree’ refers to colder weather. Tyga is saying, that when the young niggas take ecstasy, they think they are hot and fly, but actually it’s getting ‘colder’ in their souls. In other words, with every dose they go low mentally.

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The heavenly choir-like vocals in this part of the hook emphasizes the feeling of grandeur.

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Flawless line! Tyga’s work tells the whole story. Enforcing the opinion that music is the ultimate form of art.

Let’s hope that Mrs Drizzy” doesn’t see a problem with this line either.

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Produced by Jess Jackson

Even though that is unfinished version, it goes hard! There was a rumor, that the final version features Nas

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In this equation Tyga = Hugh Hefner.

Hardcore or not, he won’t give them the kick to fuck them without condom.

Also, notice the brilliant example for tautology “rawly raw”! That’s an example of how underrated Tyga is.

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Apollyon is the Greek name for Abaddon, the spiritual being named as The Destroyer in Christian apocalyptic theology. (Also, refers to a place or a state of mind.)

You wonder if he had a theme music? Well, here it is!

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Fab pays homage to 2Pac, starting his verse with the same first lines from ‘I Ain’t Mad At Cha’.

Fab tells the stories of people who are now dead on all three verses of this song. Keeping with this theme, the opening lines of each verse are taken from a deceased rapper.

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