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We all miss the past at various times in our life, and Pell is not excluded.
However, with such a bright career ahead of him, Pell is pretty pumped for what’s next to come.
Push to the Max. I could never do the minimum
Give me any game and I bet you I'll be winnin' 'em YONAS – Girls of Summer
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Yonas refuses to put out anything less than the best work he possibly can. He uses the contradictions of max and minimum to make the line sound smooth.
Due to his unstoppable work ethic, he is more than likely to win any game, whether it be related to rap or not, that you throw his way.
On homework night, YONAS (Ft. OneRepublic) – Counting Stars (Remix)
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Yonas is recieving a lot of currency from his music.
He compares the amount of money he has to the amount of papers on a math teachers desk after all of said teacher’s students have handed in their homework.
That’s a lot of paper!
I'd say I'm having one hell of a beginning YONAS – Drive It Like It's Stolen
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Yonas, in a creative play on words, is stating that he is just getting started.
If someone were to start examining his artistic capabilities based off the tracks from the end of his career, they would have to acknowledge that he has a promising career ahead of him.
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A cypher is a chance for every rapper in a crew to show off their abilities. Yonas is stating that his crew does him justice and they all spit dope verses when doing a cypher.
Meanwhile, your crew does not succeed when attempting a cypher. Even if you’re raw, your crew is weak and thus their verses in the cypher will be soft.
From The TDE Cypher 2013:
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Yonas could very well die if he doesn’t make it because staying in his neighborhood is very unsafe.
Thus, at this point, it is do or die for Yonas.
My two hands, and some shoe strings YONAS (Ft. Aloe Blacc) – I Need A Dollar (Remix)
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Yonas is surviving all on his own at this point, using only his two hands to build a strong music career (hypothetically, of course).
What Yonas does have as far as material possessions go are simple things like shoestrings which don’t carry much importance or value.
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‘To be a true king’ would be a truly valuable lesson, but Yonas is offering this lesson for very cheap.
This tells us two things about Yonas:
- He needs a dollar very badly and thus is willing to do a lot for a litte money.
- Being a true king is not a hard task for him and is easily teachable because he is so familiar with it.
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Yonas is saying that Freedom is the truth as a free government is honest with it’s people.
Thus, Yonas makes the truth prominent through his raps in the same way that a ring of The Liberty Bell sends waves of the truth.
Not that fake shit, but more like the type you feel in your blood YONAS – Feel the Love
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Yonas restates the chorus and confirms by saying it himself, that he does in fact “feel the love.”
What love is it that Yonas is feeling? Most likely the love that so many people are showing him for his music.
Whatever type of love it is, Yonas knows one thing for sure: This love is real. He can feel it pumping through his veins and knows that what he is feeling is a real thing.
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