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John Waters – the 1970s cult filmmaker best known for Pink Flamingos, Cry-Baby, Hairspray, and A Dirty Shame. He is best known by the nickname given to him by William S. Burroughs: The Pope of Trash.

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A subtle fuck-you to haters. People might say that 30k is a ludicrous amount for someone like Lil B to charge for an appearance, but Lil' B feels he should be getting Ellen money. He’s being generous in taking 30k!

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Chopped and Screwed is a remix technique, pioneered by DJ Screw, which consists of slowing the music down and deepening the pitch to mimic the effects of sipping the sizzurp.

Nicki puns on the name of the technique to describe what’s going to happen to the motherfucker she’s visiting. He’s going to get “chopped” up, and therefore is “screwed.”

On the track, this line is slowed down to reflect the style.

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Busta borrows a line from Jay-Z to give Nicki props for the original. The original line, from Jay-Z’s “Takeover” was spit to mock Nas over the sample he used in “Dead Presidents.” Busta made the line rah rah like a dungeon dragon, and Nicki went and made it into a hit song

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Subliminal directed at Jay-Z (Cam'ron pioneered Jay-Z age disses – and that was years ago!)

The line also refers to the multitudes of old-school rappers who have thrown shade at the Young Money camp, most notably Lil' Kim, at whom the rest of the song is directed. Young Money has been positioning itself as the new school: performative, experimental, not necessarily street-credible. Here, Wayne’s mocking the old guard for thinking that they’re still relevant in the changing world of hip-hop.

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50 Cent assures us, via hard lyrics and a Dr. Dre beat built off gunshots, that even if he’s famous, rich, and selling records, he’ll still bust a cap in your ass.

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Pelican fly = High off your ass (pretty fuckin' fly):
Nicki Minaj transitions from Juelz Santana’s line in his song, Let’s Go (“Fly fella can fly”) and recycles the line with a Lil Wayne twist.

“Fly as a pelican” was used by Weezy on Gudda Gudda’s Deomlition Part 1. However, the term came to existence thanks to the classic movie Scarface.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YE8nCNLylEM

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“American Boy,” Estelle’s breakout solo single, is a slice of modern disco that is the perfect backdrop for the song’s cross-continental romance featuring Kanye West.

The song hit #1 on the UK charts, went top 10 in several countries and netted Estelle a Grammy for Best Rap/Sung Collaboration. The video scored four awards at the MTV VMAs in 2008, including Video of the Year.

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Wag is a derogatory term for the Wives and Girlfriends of the England Football Squad, generally considered to be shallow, money-grubbing hoes.

Kanye’s saying then that he “dumbs down for his audience to double his dollars”

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She’s into shorter dudes. Since Kanye is somewhere between 5'7 and 5'9, she could be referring to him.

John Legend wrote this for her, so…Kanye shrug

In addition, in some live performances, Estelle replaces the word “seven” with something, to show that it can be any guy she is interested in.

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