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Though hip-hop’s prime has supposedly passed, Dice keeps its spirit alive, and he isn’t going anywhere soon

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Well if they’re dumb, it shouldn’t be too hard to outsmart them should it?

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While both
Malcolm X
and Martin Luther King Jr were prominent leaders of the American Civil Rights Movement, their ideologies were vastly different.

While Dice has the violent anti-establishment tendencies of
Malcolm

he also is quite willing to sit down and talk, calmly pointing out your wack policies like Martin Luther King Jr

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Once the girl gets a taste of Dice, she can’t let go of him,so she’s with him all the time,cooking food for him and singing his praises

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Penthouses are luxurious,much more so than your typical apartment
Solariums are rooms that offer a generous sunlit view of the outside of your house

Dice uses these as imagery for his fancy houses,so you know he’s ballin'

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“Men at some time are masters of their fates: The fault, dear Brutus, is not in our stars, but in ourselves, that we are underlings”. – (Quote Act I, Scene II,Julius Caesar)

Supposedly more complex than that

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Referencing the previous line, as long as these dreads

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Drake is referring to himself when he says Champagne. (His instagram name is “ChampagnePapi”, Champagne Papi is also his credit when producing.)

Also True/T.R.U, as in 2 Chainz' new album, his past mixtapes and stuff.

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At an estimated net worth of $450 million, Hov could have almost anything in the world, but what he asks for above all else is honesty. However, this is often the hardest thing to get out of people.

Ironically, 10 years after the albums’s release, Vibe notes that

Many of the associates and artists that were in Jay-Z’s Roc-A-Fella circle around 2003 are no longer around today. Rap fans were disappointed that Hovito didn’t keep artists like Freeway and Young Chris in the fold and fell out with Beanie Sigel so bad that the two would spend the latter five years trading jabs on record. Yet, he received the most sideeyes when he received full ownership of Roc-A-Fella Records––after he and co-owners Damon “Dame” Dash and Kareem “Biggs” Burke sold it to Def Jam––and exed his partners out.

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