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Heart of a Lion (Kid Cudi Theme Music) Kid Cudi – Heart of a Lion (Kid Cudi Theme Music)
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“Heart of a Lion” is an inspirational anthem. Hate it or love it, Cudi will see you in hell…or will he?

“Heart of a Lion” is produced by Free School, and is the fifth track on Man on the Moon: The End of Day.

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Return of the Jedi from Rio De Janeiro on the red eye
Yet I still feel the need to be fly JAY-Z – Cashmere Thoughts
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Return of the Jedi is a reference to the third installment of Star Wars. Jay-z compares himself to a Jedi master on his way back home from a trip to Rio De Janeiro, Brazil. And don’t think a late (red-eye) flight is gonna stop him from dressing up!

Otherwise odd, the placement of Rio De Janeiro in this line is to draw on the idea that Jay is getting exotic vagina he established in the above lines. It is a well known activity for ‘brothers’ especially to trip down to Brazil and partake in a lot of sex with the local women who are very attractive…

Also, red-eye-jedi is associative with getting high(marijuana)… your eyes can usually get reddened from smoking weed, it is an interesting play on 2 concepts by Jay, even though he is also referring to ‘fly’ as in his dress-sense. Pretty loaded line and possibly more inferences if you reach deep enough but the ideas are there.

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Also, Emperor Palpatine, the villain from “Return of the Jedi” has red in his eyes and (spoiler warning) flies down the pit of the New Death Star when Darth Vader overthrows him and “flies” back over to the light side. Not the main lyrical connection, but worth pointing out all of the same.

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Notice how Jay cleverly uses the word “fly” as well, to compliment the subject matter of the line.

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10 years

hes high(stoned?) or (elevated) on the plane away from people but he still feels the need to look sharp

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Bullets breeze by you, like Louisiana, man Freeway (Ft. Beanie Sigel & JAY-Z) – What We Do
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Jay-z completist should note that 3 years after “What We Do” was released, the New Orleans Saints (entrenched in the Bayou) signed bullet-throwing quarterback Drew Brees–which makes this line a pretty sick homophone. That’s why they call him HOV

Alternative interpretation is, “Bullets ease by you like, Louisiana, man”. A play on the movie title Eve’s Bayou, which was set in Louisiana.

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If it is “bullets ease by you” that could also be a New Orleans reference since that city is known as “The Big Easy”

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By You is a play on the word Bayou, like the Louisiana bayou

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It’s not Drew Brees because he was still a Charger in 02

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alliteration on the “bullets breeze by”

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