I avoided the coke game and went to Sprite instead Sprite – Hip Hop Context
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Sprite and Coca Cola stand under the same umbrella, but the point is that he took an alternative route to selling cocaine and that route was covered in lemon lime soda!
I'm gonna obey y'all thirst
Since you want another verse
Cause y'all want me to rap again
Philly Freezer back like Sprite again Sprite – Hip Hop Context
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Just as the “Obey Your Thirst” ad campaign made its return, so did Freeway to the rap game. He took a hiatus and came back with more flows
Freeway on the far left, with his beard sticking out
They had my pockets thirstier than Sprite Sprite – Hip Hop Context
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When you burn through all your money and your pockets are all like, “We’re thirsty for more money,” but then you’re like, “But I burned through all the money!” And then, as the title suggest, you get stressed out by it all
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Forever eventually wound up on the soundtrack of a documentary film concerning fellow Sprite signee, Lebron James. This is a coincidence that I’m sure Drizzy and Lebron laughed about during All Star Weekend
That Lebron documentary is pretty good, too
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Sprite first ran its “Obey Your Thirst” ad campaign in 1994, then relaunched it in 2004 with commercials that featured basketball phenomenon (and the only person who knows how Kanye feels), Lebron James
In hip hop, references to the campaign began in the mid-90s with A Tribe Called Quest and, like the campaign itself, remerged in the mid-2000s. East coast rappers did most of the referencing (like Cam'ron, Freeway, Beanie Siegel, who were Rocafella label-mates at the time)
Sprite in that mixture, I've been talking crazy, girl Sprite – Hip Hop Context
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Drake is sponsored by Sprite and if you delve into his lyrics from his mixtape days, you’ll find that he was dropping Sprite references even before he struck a deal with the soda purveyor.
Which is a hormone like females produce estrogene and progesterone Double R Bars – Reproduction Rap (Teaser Bars)
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How to go half and half on a baby:
Guys, remember to bring the testosterone (don’t sweat it, it’s something your body produces naturally–actually, you produce more of it when you’re sweating, so feel free to sweat away)
Ladies bring estrogene, mashed potatoes (j/k), and progesterone
Need love and care
The hounds need
Organs and limbs to tear Surfer Blood – Demon Dance
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The hounds of hell is a reference to Cerberus, the three-headed dog who, in Greek Mythology, guarded the Underworld–assuring that only the dead entered and no one ever leave.
Joking that cerberus just needs some TLC lines up with the band’s penchant for playoff juxtapositions of the serious/painful and the emotional/vain–“I fell apart and combed my hair” from “Catholic Pagans”. Someone take the cerberus out for a walk!
It’s possible that in this scenario, the hounds of hell are guarding HIM and HE needs “love and care.” He sees himself as being a volatile individual, possibly being a destructive force to his own stability, hence the hounds needing “organs and limbs to tear”
When it rings true
And never when
It comes to you
Some secrets you
Should never tell
They'll feed you to
The hounds of hell Surfer Blood – Demon Dance
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There’s a value in honesty, but sometimes you have keep secrets to protect yourself or the ones you love. (This why Batman keeps his identity a secret!). Here dogma presents itself as a super villain
truth and consequences!
This ties back into the songs opening line. And now we see that he’s pouring out these “secrets,” despite the ramifications that may arise because of it.
