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Oh!, they followed suit long ago

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2 girls at the intro of the song, struggling to pronounce Talib Kweli’s name,.. “Kweli” means “True” in Swahili, its sure a tongue twisting word to pronounce

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These lyrics are sampled from Nina Simone’s 1964 hit “Please Don’t Let Me Be Misunderstood”.

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From 1978’s “The Wiz” – A spin off of the Wizard of Oz ft. Nipsey Russell, an American comedian known for his tv shows from the 60s thru the 90s.

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Big Boi doesn’t feel it is right that his BMM is basing her entire opinion on his character off of a few comments her daughter made about him, most likely during a fight or argument. Since Big Boi doesn’t have a chance to explain his reasoning to his BMM, he always ends up looking like the bad guy.

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A tribute to the late The Notorious B.I.G., who Kim dated before he passed away. She’s giving him a shout out by telling you to listen to Biggie in your car. Kim continued repping Biggie throughout all of her career, she never forgot who was responsible for her success.

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Kendrick’s good kid, m.A.A.d. city sold 242K units in its first week, while Meek’s Dreams and Nightmares sold 165K. Umm, let’s blame Hurricane Sandy for Meek’s sales, but numbers don’t lie!

The tweet was deleted shortly after he sent it out, Cassidy claims to have seen it before it was deleted.

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For street runners, homeless and lost souls; they don’t really have that chance to learn, thank God for Nas, he feeds them with his poetic lines like scripture.

“lost souls, in the crossroads” could refer to people who sold their soul to the devil for fortune and fame, this originally came from the blues legend Robert Johnson apparently selling his soul to the devil at the crossroads of highways 1 and 8 in Mississippi. He could be saying he is god, so their selling their souls to him!

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Karma will chase him until he change his ignorant ways and start treating her right. She references Miss Celie’s curse from the book and movie The Color Purple:

“I curse you. Until you do right by me everything you think about is gonna crumble! … Until you do right by me, everything you even think about gonna fail!”

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Latifah is very concerned about how women are degraded to a sex object and called “bitches” and “hoes.”

It’s hard for men and women to truly unite and respect each other when men who call women derogatory names; do it only to make them feel lesser than they are.

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