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Lynchburg, TN is home to the Jack Daniels distillery.

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Ludacris is a popular rapper from Atlanta, and he also has a viable acting career. Ludicrous is defined as “so foolish, unreasonable, or out of place as to be amusing; ridiculous.”

Andy is saying some of these rappers are being fake (acting) in their rhymes, and also that these other rappers are acting foolishly.

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Jesus provided an example for his followers to imitate. If you say you’re a Christian, then you should be as much like Christ as you can.

If you talk the talk
then walk the walk,
with your eyes on the Lord, because:

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sintax released this song in response to Typhoon Haiyan, which hit the Philippines on November 8th, 2013.

The blog entry and song can be found here:

How Do We Stay

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Reference to the 168th street subway station.

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HeeSun Lee is a rapper from Staten Island.

She has collaborated with Social Club Misfits on the track “Get To Know Me”.

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Shout out to this fellow Floridian.

Social Club Misfits and KJ-52 have collaborated before on the KJ-52 song, “Island of Misfit Toys”.

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Jesus accepted him, even though he was dead inside. The zombie metaphor (via a reference to the AMC program “The Walking Dead”) reinforces this point.

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“We Built This City” was a huge hit for Starship, reaching number one on the charts in the U.S., Canada, and Australia, as well as receiving a Grammy nomination.

The lyrics, as originally, written, were originally about how nightclubs in Los Angeles were being shut down, and as such live acts did not have any place to go. As performed, however, the ‘computerized’ feel of the song ironically made it exactly an example of the pro-live-music statement implied by the lyrics.

The song remains a polarizing one in Jefferson Airplane lore. While the song itself implies Starship boasting of their late ‘60s success and impact on rock music/status as rock and roll rebels, the members had nothing to do with writing the song.

The song gained infamy in the 2000s, when Blender Magazine and VH1 declared it the “worst song of all times”.

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The voice behind this bit is Les Garland, a well-known Radio DJ from San Francisco.

The references to various city nicknames are meant to make the chatter more universal, as they each relate to a different city. The “City By the Bay” is the nickname for San Francisco. The “City That Rocks” is Cleveland. The “City That Never Sleeps” is New York.

An alternate version of this song, without this voiceover, was sent to radio stations around the country so they could insert their own radio patter/station IDs.

The mention of San Francisco reflects the origins of the band, dating back to the Haight-Ashbury era of the sixties as Jefferson Airplane.

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