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Smoke and mirrors is a metaphor for deceptive explanations or descriptions. Kish is trying to reveal these and yet she just finds this guy. He is the deception.

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Martin Luther King, Jr, along with Mahatma Ghandi, and was a major proponent of nonviolent intervention:

“I have consistently preached that nonviolence demands that the means we use must be as pure as the ends we seek.”

He even outlined the four basic steps to nonviolent intervention:
1. Collection of the facts to determine whether injustices exist
2. Negotiation
3. Self-purification
4. Direct action.

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Or, just Rap Genius it:

The Montgomery Bus Boycott was a cornerstone in the Civil Rights Movement. It began on December 1, 1955 when Rosa Park was arrested for refusing to give up her seat for a white person.

A little over a year later, on December 20, 1956, the decision in Browder v. Gayle was passed declaring laws in Alabama establishing segregated buses were unconstitutional.

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Stevie Wonder and Elvis Costello are among other artists who have recently canceled their performances in Israel.

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Like Kilo Kish maybe?

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This

along with this:

(Ferg is supposedly a pescetarian)

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Lights, camera, …

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Play on N.W.A and their album Straight Outta Compton

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The side effects of lean are some of the worst any recreational drug has; many prominent users die at an early age. But Mac was willing to go through the physical pain at the time because he valued his imagination and happiness more than his long term health.

When explaining the meaning of this song, Mac told MTV:

You gotta go through the really bad to appreciate that ecstasy — that actual feeling of ecstasy

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He’s the reason she’s sinking in the first place, so how dare he have the audacity to then tell her how to hold herself up.

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