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Seminal band–or artist collective, really–from the Hampton Roads area of southeastern Virginia (it’s near Norfolk). Timbaland, Missy Elliot, Ginuwine, and K-Ci and Jo-Jo (“Jo” and “Ci”) spun off from Jodeci.
Got a dark-skinned friend, look like Michael Jackson Twista (Ft. Jamie Foxx & Kanye West) – Slow Jamz
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This couplet surely came up at “Regarding Michael Jackson: Performing Racial, Gender, and Sexual Difference Center Stage,” an academic conference held on the Yale campus from September 23-24, 2004. People there talked about this line for, like, months.
Kanye can relate two girls of different races to Michael Jackson be because he was once black before his vitiligo came into effect. It is speculated that Michael used skin bleaching creams to make his skin lighter, however, in an interview with Oprah Winfrey he stated that he only uses makeup to cover up the blotches on his skin.
Alternately, it could go slightly deeper in that she has an unattractive friend with a light complexion who reminds him of the late Michael Jackson, and she also has another unattractive friend with a darker complexion which also reminds him of Michael Jackson, but the younger, Pre-vitiligo diagnosed Michael Jackson.
In a 2013 New York Times interview, West cited writing this very line as the moment he knew he was going to be a big star.
You be bumpin' Teddy Pendergrass
I done hit it from the back Twista (Ft. Jamie Foxx & Kanye West) – Slow Jamz
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Platinum plus like thizat
Dangerous on trizacks, leave your ass flizat The Notorious B.I.G. (Ft. Diddy & Ma$e) – Mo' Money Mo' Problems
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Mase’s debut album was Harlem World
Double up is a gambling strategy, which ties into the next line about laying a bet down. He is telling his doubter to double their bet against him, so he will win twice as much money since he can’t be stopped.
Double Up would also be the name of his second album. If you didn’t like the first album or thought it was a fluke, wait til you hear the new one.
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