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Like T.I. suggests on Drake’s “Fancy”, (where the sample is from), B.o.B. is a beast when it comes to playing the guitar, so much so he might be doing it more than rapping.

If you have even heard one Outkast song, you know that Andre can play the guitar pretty damn well too. He even played Jimi Hendrix in a movie later on.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jUmfhYsA5r0

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The Black Album was supposed to be Jay Z’s last album, Kendrick is saying he should’ve stopped there because he’s gonna destroy him. Like with Lil Wayne previously, Kendrick repeats the verse below replacing the last bar with ‘Jigga man should’ve retired’ because Jay Z is the other artist who was frequently claiming to be the best rapper alive, and because it reflects on his public decision to put off retiring and continue rapping.

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Kendrick is rapping well and dropping a bomb, himself, upon the world filled with rap industry garbage. He also talked about being a suicide bomber on the Drake track, “Buried Alive (Interlude)”:

Looking in the mirror I’m embarrassed
I’m feeling like a suicidal terrorist

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She knows he wants to eat her ass or give her head. And she loves it. This line is also a play on words as Rihanna says enticing so it sounds sorta like “En-Tyson”, possibly referring to Mike Tyson’s famous incident.

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Mac can be so low, but yet be so high. A submarine in the sky would be flying and it would be a pretty cool thing to see.

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T.I. spent time incarrcerated for guns and had to work with a program as a part of his sentence to show the youth a better way to live in life. Now that he has completed that required aspect of his civil service debt, he has less stress, now he learned and will think of the consequences of his actions reflected in the future of him and his family. His heart is “strong” now, large and circulating love and care through his lyrics like this.

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Cole is referring to the fact that he has made it to the point where he is relevant in rap and has many fans and haters, but not long before this album he was still in the hood “Watching Belly, eating PB&Jelly” working on his plan to get to where he is now.

Apparently the Hype Williams-directed urban drama Belly was playing in the background as inspiration for our hero.

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360 deals are contracts that allow a record label to receive a percentage of the earnings from ALL of a band’s activities instead of just record sales. Under 360 deals, also called “multiple rights deals,” record labels may get a percentage of things that were previously off limits to them, like:

  • Concert revenue

  • Merchandise sales

  • Endorsement deals

  • Ringtones

  • etc,etc,etc

Basically, the artist is basically being paid as much as an McDonald’s employee. You’re still broke working for scraps with more limitations on what you love.

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He is reffering to the name of the movie “John Tucker Must Die”. People want Rich Boy to die because they envy the success and fame he has in the rap game.

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Her man is stringing her along, playing her like he’s going to eventually get his act together, but he is never real about it. Cole wants to save her from that life and the troubles of it.

This is also a play on the previous line “either they Ken or Ryu”. In Street Fighter, you “string” attacks together to make combos. By untie, Cole is saying allow me to be the break the combo of loser niggas in your life.

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