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This certainty isn’t the first time Future has dedicated his lyrics to his beloved wife, Ciara.

As previously mentioned, Future enjoys taking his girl for rides in his luxurious cars. However, he also doesn’t mind kicking back with her just staring up into the sky whenever the roads are out or just out of spite. Staring up at the sky may be a simple way they can both relax from the pressure of being celebrities.

Future even emphasizes the importance of their relationship by explaining that talking and embracing the time they spend together is more of a matter of getting a feel of reality than simply showing off their love to each other.

This could also just as easily be Future telling Ciara not to get caught up in the media rumors and to focus on their life together.

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Usher won’t allow any negative legal actions to take place in his life as he pleads the fifth, or in other words chooses not to talk and risk getting himself into any kind of trouble. However, this may not do any good considering he later admits to being “Guilty”,…

Usher also includes the song’s theme into this line by comparing his life with being at the movies, where in both scenarios there are times when and when not to talk out loud.

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T.I. is always an active artist so he knows there’s bound to be some article of gossip about him somewhere. Reporters and news editors will even resort to lies if it means getting a cover story on him. This is quite the statement considering how cooperative he has been with magazine companies so far.

T.I. always finds trouble, or causes it, so his street name will not be tainted by the fame. By doing so, he also gives the news hunters a real event instead of resorting to gossip and making him look bad.

We know he is no fraud by the previous news exploitation of his arrest for withholding illegal machine guns just before his BET performance in October, 2007.

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Iggy and B.O.B are close friends and especially so because they are signed to the same record label, Grand Hustle Records, together. B.O.B is even so comfortable with Iggy that he has no problem burning high-class cigars with her.

It doesn’t matter where he and Iggy go in the world because they will always be the hottest rappers there. B.O.B always manages to live up to his title of being on top of the world.

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Nas finally catches a break from all the previously mentioned sleazy hoes as he randomly bumps into his “yellow bird” on the streets. However, instead of it being a Notting Hill moment, Nas is feeling pressured for words that he can’t seem to come up with.

He doesn’t want to loose this girl so he is desperately trying to come up with a way for them to be introduced.

Nas also comments on how his thirst for this girl is like no other and how only the pure water from the springs of Florida can quench it.

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Nas creates a sort of love song with double meanings to allow his fans to see his music isn’t all gangsta rap, even though that will always be part of his style.

The first meaning is that Nas simply awoke one day to see a warming yellow bird nearby, mostly likely out the window. Nas was poor growing up and, since he lived in Queensbridge, he always had his life at risk. The yellow bird was his one vision of freedom from a dreadful place he could not escape and seems to be an almost torture to him. Once it flies away, so does his imaginative release from a possible fate.

The second meaning of the yellow bird is symbolism for someone that Nas sees as his true love, this making more sense as Nas references women throughout the track. Nowadays women are after Nas because of his fame and wealth and, since Nas can’t live without her, he never wants her to leave.

Notice how he adds “not today” as if to trick her and himself into thinking she will eventually be able to leave.

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Every time Busta grabs the mic to start rapping, he creates a mental plan of who he is going to murder with his lyrics. He even gives us several examples of secret societies to set the image of what the conference of demolition would be like in his mind.

The significance of these societies is that each worked to fulfill their own goals, just like Busta and his plans of destruction. The Bilderberg Group consisted of Europeans and North Americans to solve world problems, Skull and Bones focused on more minor Yale University problems/gossip being made up of undergraduate seniors, and the infamous Illuminati was to generally stop abusive state power while being made up of anyone thought to be a “free-thinker”.

Note that Busta could be referring to a more modern Illuminati in which descended from the Bavarian and supposedly to this day plan more severe events for world domination.

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In his early age of discovering Hip-Hop, Mac always worked hard and made it his career to become a rapper. Along with this, he even obtained the skills of a self-taught musician, playing piano, guitar, drums, and bass. Mac was able to reach success with his best early solo mix-tapes But My Mackin' Ain’t Easy and The Jukebox: Prelude to Class Clown.

After being officially signed to a record label, Rostrum Records, in 2010, he realizes his ego will not take him very far without any hard work to follow it up. There are rappers in the game now that will make Mac look like “just another face in the crowd” or just another minor rapper if he doesn’t work hard.

This song could also have arose some influence for Mac’s 2014 mix-tape, Faces.

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Kendrick’s flow is so incredible that it brings back hope for real Hip-Hop into the rap game.

However, while healing the rap game his flow also causes the destruction of other rapper’s careers. He goes so hard at the mic that other rappers need to “check their pulse” and see if they’re even relevant anymore.

If other rappers don’t hurry up, it’ll be too late and their fans/popularity will dissolve, making them no-names like John Doe.

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Referring to his previous statement, Bib touches on the topic of Lebron James being a fraud. This rumor has been about since James left Cleveland for Miami which, when mixed with James, was destined to win the NBA Championships. Since then, James has won two NBA Championships and two NBA rings along with it.

If that not being enough proof of fraud, this year Lebron has returned to Cleveland after his escapade of wins to probably show he “cares” for The Cavaliers. He even constructed a letter to Cleveland apologizing for leaving them which can be seen as a way to gain sympathy from his home city.

Altogether, Bib is calling this person quite the fraud as we can tell!

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