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In a freestyle with Sway in the Morning, Childish Gambino fired shots at Ddot:

and a bunch of DDots wanna talk a lot of shit
But that’s cool cause in the real world they really don’t exist

This was response to a perceived Twitter diss.

https://twitter.com/TriDopeOfficial/statuses/392775453087260673

Now, Ddot is taking the beef to wax here.

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Eminem creates an analogy for the chip on his shoulder, where the world is represented the 2008 Detroit Lions team that didn’t win a single game. He compares himself to All-Pro safety Brian “Weapon X” Dawkins, who was known for his powerful tackles. Most notably, he suplexed a player from the Washington Redskins.

As a Detroit native, Em is a lifelong Lions fan, so he probably took that losing season to heart. This is also a reference to 2pac’s classic 1995 album and its title track, “Me Against The World.”

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Ferguson is Clarissa’s little brother in the ‘90s Nickelodeon sitcom Clarissa Explains It All.

This has nothing to do with the fatal police-shooting in Ferguson, Missouri. The album dropped months before Mike Brown’s death.

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“Trophies” is a track that did not make the final cut for Nothing Was The Same because it wasn’t finished in time.

This beat was originally sent to Childish Gambino, but he didn’t end up using it so the producer, Hit-Boy, sent it to Drake.

The prominent horn sounds in the song are from the intro of an old 1994 western film called “Oblivion”

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Intercontinental Hotels & Resorts” is a brand of luxury hotels. Drake doesn’t stay there because it all comes together at the condo

The Intercontinental is on the low end of luxury hotels. When Drake stays at a hotel it’s only at the top hotels.

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Silver Lake, Los Angeles is a meme neighborhood that’s home to internet favorite Ryan Gosling. Here’s Katy and ex-husband Russell Brand leaving one of her favorite places, Silver Lake’s “Dusty’s Cafe”.

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Often hyphenated but never duplicated

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Emily, Fam, and Lorenzo are Donald’s close friends. (Fam is his manager as well). You may have caught Emily and Fam in his short film, Clapping For The Wrong Reasons

Here’s Fam, talking about Rap Genius on Twitter.

Here’s Emily getting dunked into an infinity pool in the film.

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San Fermin is not an album of singles but rather a sweeping, full-bodied listen with multiple distinct peaks and ambitious thematic connections. Ludwig-Leone composed all of the album’s arrangements and lyrics in full prior to collaborating and recording, noting that “writing for a large group of unknown musicians infused the writing process with a kind of operatic scope.”

The first track released from the album, “Sonsick,” tackles many of these larger themes head-on. ”It’s like a panic attack disguised as a birthday party,” Ludwig-Leone says. ”I realized that the most intense moments are the ones in which conflicting emotional worlds exist inside you, equally, at once.”

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