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This is a play on words. Bitches are female dogs and thorough breed dogs are high quality, like J.Cole’s females

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People are paying attention to every word that comes out his mouth

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Switching it up, J. Cole then takes into account the persona of the female carrying the child. From the tone and immense profanity, she is not very happy with the suggestion of an abortion.

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J. Cole’s acquaintances carry ‘toys’, which is a colloquial term for guns. This is a possible double entendre, the two interpretations are…

  1. They carry around ‘toys’ in a similar manner to a child would be attached to a toy – hence they do not want to grow up.

  2. They carry around guns like they don’t want to live any longer – in allusion to the ‘'live by the gun, die by the gun’‘ saying.

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