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Foxxx is not the first rapper to pun on the meme law firm Jacoby & Myers

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Foxxx’s debut, Freddie Foxxx Is Here, was in fact released in ‘89

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In this song Jake talks about fans finding strength in his music, and him finding strength in his fans

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Soul Khan launches a battle against sexism, in hip-hop and elsewhere. See the video here

http://players.brightcove.net/4863540648001/HklmClHkx_default/index.html?videoId=5237582414001

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Freddie shouts out his Str8 Slammin' label

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Note the intentionally ungrammatical “why so hard I go” construction here in order to keep up the rhyme scheme. Em’s on that Yoda flow. In poetic terms, this is called anastrophe.

Eminem has said before that rap is the one thing he’s good at.
He’s brought up at on many occasions:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aKzQxrPnCBs#t=6m10s

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Fif continues the horror talk with a nod to two of the most famous horror franchises of all time, Psycho and Halloween

This is also a reference to 50 Cent’s and Eminem’s previous duet “Psycho” from Before I Self Destruct.

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Dennis Emmanuel Brown CD (1 February 1957 – 1 July 1999) was a Jamaican reggae singer. During his prolific career, which began in the late 1960s when he was aged eleven, he recorded more than 75 albums and was one of the major stars of lovers rock, a subgenre of reggae. Bob Marley cited Brown as his favourite singer, dubbing him “The Crown Prince of Reggae”, and Brown would prove influential on future generations of reggae singers.—Wikipedia

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This is the line that would inspire Bruce Springsteen’s hit song “Hungry Heart.”

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Ulysses will always desire more than he can obtain. This is somewhat ironic as he is the king of Ithaca: one would expect him to have all he desires, but he doesn’t.

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The universality of this yearning for more is what allows the singer (and the listener) to empathize with decisions that might seem foolhardy or just plain foolish on first blush. It makes the case for never faulting anyone for seeking deeper connection.

The title of this song comes from a line in Alfred, Lord Tennyson’s poem “Ulysses” – “For always roaming with a hungry heart”

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