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Russian roulette is a “game” where everyone takes a turn putting a revolver with one bullet in it to their head and pulling the trigger.

KRIT realizes that the great risks we take in life have the potential to kill us, so we need to take smaller risks, or bet safer.

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KRIT is spitting knowledge through his songs and is expressing his dreams through his albums. KRIT is saying that he has many more albums on the way.

He could also mean that what he’s doing is more than just fantasy, he’s creating his success and living what they used to say was only a dream.

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Simonsayz also produced “Put You On Game” from The Cool.

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Earl’s biological father is Keorapetse Kgositsile (“Bra Willie”), a South African poet. He left Earl’s mother when Earl was six, as he raps about on the lead single to the album, “Chum”:

It’s probably been 12 years since my father left
Left me fatherless

Being the son of a fairly famous poet, as well as a fellow writer, Earl faces some unfairly high expectations regarding the depth of his lyrics. The “Right?” placed at the end of the line is to signify that Earl is irritated with people meriting his lyrical ability with his poetic heritage.

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LA Reid is the CEO of Epic Records and Jimmy Iovine is the chairman of Interscope. Record label executives, as well as the world in general, are starting to take notice of Chance.

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Meek is an indirect snitch. He accused Cass of snitching via twitter. But where’s the proof?

https://twitter.com/MeekMill/status/282363555485995008

Cass spit this line, of course, on a beat by another rapper who didn’t snitch and took his jail time, Shyne !

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Blu’s mother gives him crap for being a rapper, claiming that he is far from God because of the vulgar reputation of rap music. This is extremely ironic because God (and spirituality in general) is a common theme in Blu’s music.

The title track he is referring to is The World Is… (Below the Heavens) from his 2007 debut Below the Heavens.

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Violence and stupidity among young people is ironically encouraged by many artists who rap about gang-banging in a glorified manner. But this is just one example; “they” could refer to the government, racist teachers, peers, etc.

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If you’re born into poverty and are raised by a crack addict, chances are you will follow a similar path. A “bad habit” doesn’t need to refer to drug addiction, but could be a “habit” of crime, unemployment, laziness.

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