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Summer '68 Pink Floyd – Summer '68
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Track #3 on Pink Floyd’s 1970 album Atom Heart Mother. This song was written, composed and sung by Richard Wright. This song could be about dwelling on one-night-stands with girls he met touring with the band.

This is the only other song from Atom Heart Mother to feature the brass section that was used on the titular suite.

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Fat Old Sun Pink Floyd – Fat Old Sun
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Pink Floyd decided to split the work each band member would do in Atom Heart Mother. Even though the title track is attributed to all four members, the 3 songs that follow are solo contributions by Roger Waters (on “If”), Richard Wright (on “Summer ‘68”) and David Gilmour.

“Fat Old Sun” is David Gilmour’s exclusive contribution to the album, all the instruments heard in the song (except Wright’s organ) are also played by him. Similar to Grantchester Meadows and High Hopes (hence, “distant bells”), it is a hymn of praise to the bucolic countryside surrounding Cambridge where he and others in the band’s orbit spent their youth.

This song was a live staple from 1970 to 1971 and it has also been performed by David Gilmour frequently during his tours to promote his solo albums. During most live performances, it was extended to 14 minutes instead of the original 5:23.

The song was also one of several to be considered for the band’s “best of” album, Echoes: The Best of Pink Floyd (2001).

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But I'm broke on Atlantic Ave tryna cop the bootleg instead El-P – Smithereens (Stop Cryin')
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El can’t afford the real copy of what ever he is trying to buy, so he is on Atlantic Avenue trying to buy the bootleg version. Atlantic Avenue is a important street in New York that runs through Brooklyn.

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El is trying to buy the bootleg of the “world’s end” from the line before

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Good morning Vietnam VIC MENSA – Welcome To INNANET
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A reference to the 1987 movie Good Morning Vietnam, starring Robin Williams, who plays a DJ in Saigon during the Vietnam War. “Good morning Vietnam” is how he opens his show in the morning.

Vic is not the first rapper to use this to open a song. The Wu-Tang Clan opened with this in “Wu-Tang: 7th Chamber”, and Mos Def used it in his song “Brooklyn”

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Snatching Cartie's downtown, wear 'em same damn week Danny Brown – Gremlins
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Stealing Cartier, which is a high end French jewelry and watch manufacturer.

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That pop a bitch on camera and we ain't talking 'bout twerk team Danny Brown – Gremlins
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Danny references the twerk team, known for popping on camera. This a way more depressing way to get popped on camera.

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The return of the gangster, fuck a hipster, squeeze a trigger
You got me fucked up, I'm a hood-ass nigga Danny Brown (Ft. Freddie Gibbs) – The Return
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A hipster may enjoy Danny Brown’s new music, like XXX because of its very alternative and experimental instrumentals. But for this album its the return of that old Danny Brown–at least for the first side of this album.

Also, Danny Brown and Freddie Gibbs are two rappers that have played a ton of indie festivals. As a result, they’ve been type casted as “hipster rappers.” In reality, both of them are from the hood and usually rap about their environment.

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This is some wordplay too because he could be talking about literally having sex with a hipster too

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2U4U Slum Village – 2U4U
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Track #18 on Slum Village’s LP “Fantastic Vol. 2”. In the song, T3, Jay Dee, and Baatin are all talking about chicks and how they are acting.

Drake has a song from early on in his music career called Deceiving that samples J Dilla’s instrumental of this song.

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Still I Hear The Word Progress Lushlife (Ft. Styles P) – Still I Hear The Word Progress
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Track #2 off of Lushlife’s amazing 2012 LP “Plateau Vision”.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F0XUk0eOw6A

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This a CT scan of a simple black man Lushlife (Ft. Shad) – Gymnopedie 1.2
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Shad is giving you a deeper look into his life or his soul. Like a CT Scan (an X-Ray that gives detailed pictures of the inside of a body)

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