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Kanye compares the color of his diamonds to a yellow traffic light. At yellow lights, drivers either floor it if they think they can make it before it hits red, or slow down (as they’re technically supposed to do).

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Her car is white on white, with a black clutch, which she’s expressing by way of some complex slavery imagery (“whips” for the car and the weapon used to keep slaves in line, “cotton picking” for the car’s color and for the work performed by American slaves in the Antebellum years)

Kunta Kinte was the black slave protagonist in the acclaimed Alex Haley novel and mini-series Roots

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This line is likely a reference to the spoken outro of Tupac’s To Live and Die in LA, where Pac says similar things about Dre.

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There are several reasons to get excited in cyphers if you’re last up:

  1. You get more time to think of rhymes while the opponent is spitting.

  2. You get to play off / make rebuttals of the guy who went before you.

  3. The last part of a series is always what’s remembered best.

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People who make more money pay more in taxes. Nicki’s paying more in taxes than all but 5% of the country’s population.

Ergo: Nicki makes a lot of Muny

Gucci Mane also brags about how much he pays in taxes in Never Too Much Money

RAPPERS: it’s better to brag about the taxes you’re NOT paying – you feel me?

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Fun Fact: Thought it might not feel like it, “Save Me” in the only track on Pink Friday that contains absolutely no rapping.

Nicki says via Pink Friday Diaries:

This song feels like a soundtrack to a movie. It paints a vivid picture of a girl who has it all but still feels very much alone. She’s turned into a monster and pushed the one person who truly loved her away. She drives hundreds of miles, falls to her face sobbing, and begs him to save her.

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Standout track from M.I.A’s 2010 album /\/\/\Y/\, which was remixed with a verse from it-girl Nicki Minaj.

Maya personifies the men she meets as different drinks, to a disorienting beat which simulates the fucked-up experience quite well!

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Ghostface and Raekwon are members of the legendary Wu-Tang Clan, and are generally considered to be pretty thugged out

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The Continental refers to either the Lincoln Continental or more likely considering the line about Gucci being too cheap, the more expensive Bentley Continental GT; regardless, you probably couldn’t afford either!

Poor Nicki! She gives a broke dirty bitch a ride in her luxury whip, and she fouls it up!

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“Endo” is a term from weed, and Endo-Nesia would be a strain grown somewhere in Indonesia.

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