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In a world like today’s, every single word you say about yourself can be used against you, being honest to someone is hurting your own privacy because private information is no longer hard to achieve anymore.
Referring to the previous line, Rocky can’t trust people anymore, he uses your own words against you to protect himself.
Nigga, win the fair game, fuck with the best A$AP Rocky (Ft. Gesaffelstein) – In Distress
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Out of This World means: something amazing, so awesome it’s not even human anymore.
Know more about survival than the one from fresh meadows Reflection Eternal (Ft. Les Nubians) – Love Language
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Restes car je t'aime comme tu es
J'ai traversé l'ocean du verbe
Et je t'ai trouvé Reflection Eternal (Ft. Les Nubians) – Love Language
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In French, The Chorus translates to:
Love has no boundaries
Stay because I love you as you are
I crossed an ocean of words
And I found you
Hey, wanna rap like Q?
Hey, wear they bucket hats like Q? ScHoolboy Q (Ft. A$AP Rocky) – Californication
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Rocky is known for his amazing fashion sense, as he articulated on, Fuckin' Problems, where he said:
And Q’s hype has got everyone from gangbangers, to kids, to suburb citizens and even rich white boys wearing his signature Bucket hats, Rocky & Q are eatin'.
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This part of the track is the image of Schoolboy as a drug user and abuser, using two high detailed storytelling verses.
At the start of the track you can hear Q rummaging through pill bottles.
The track is seperated to 2 parts: his life as a drug dealer, drug user, basically before his daughter was born, and there’s the second part, after his daughter was born, the differences are that in the first part, Schoolboy is reminiscing particular scenes from his life as a drug user.
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Julius (Dr. J) Erving is a former basketball player who helped launch the modern style of play that emphasizes play above the rim.
Dr. J was known to glide in the air when he dunked,
And when you smoke oxycodone it also slides across the foil, which could be what he was referring to by glide like Dr. J.
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Referencing an iconic line off Biggie’s song “Juicy:”
Since Q is about ten years younger than Big, the Nintendo console of his youth was the Nintendo 64, instead of the SNES.
SEGA Genesis and NINTENDO64 are Japanese video game consoles, respectively released in 1988 and 1996.
Q’s grandma got him a Genesis even in times when they couldn’t afford it. Golden Eye was a popular 1997 N64 game
Schoolboy’s label-mate Kendrick Lamar also expresses his love for the Sega Genesis and Nintendo game consoles.
Another way of saying ‘see gold and I was away at war’, in his broke mentality he would have to put down the video games to go out into the real world (rather than a video game fantasy/an escape) to fight for his money through illegal means. Also, being a reference to B.I.G could be a reflection of him looking at these successful people with nice things (gold) and wanting that; so while they had it, he was out putting in that work.