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Drake featured on one of the year’s hottest songs, Migos' Versace, and is widely considered to have killed it, epsecailly with his flow on the track.
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Seeing a partner naked is a sign of intimacy which most people would not be privy to, so even though their relationship has gotten complicated, Drake doesn’t want to lose everything they have together. He doesn’t want to just be somebody that she used to know.
Seeing somebody naked also depicts their most vulnerable state. Drake doesn’t want the girl to treat him like he doesn’t know her even if he has seen her at the most vulnerable a person can be.
What they got to say now? Nothin' they can say now Drake – Furthest Thing
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Drake is finding it hard to trust the friends he came up with and some of that may be due to his busy lifestyle. He expresses similar sentiments at several other points in the album:
People like Mazin who was a best friend to me
Start to become a distant memory
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Drake has been BUSY:
Prepping NWTS
Features all over the place – “Fuckin' Problems”, “No Lie”, every song on the radio is starting to sound like Drake featuring Drake
Promoting his own label, October’s Very Own or OVO, signing acts like PARTYNEXTDOOR and Majid Jordan
He needs to take some time out for himself, some time for introspection, and figure out the position he wants to be in. Much of this song, and the album, deals with these themes.
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Referencing Trinidad James' viral hit, “All Gold Everything”
Pusha does not simply own a lot of gold chains like Trinidad, but it is at the level of royalty. King Tutankhamun, the Egyptian pharaoh is famous for being buried in a gold sarcophagus and and with a golden face mask. His tomb is also said to have contained untold riches.
So you can be sure Push is stunting hard!
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Signed in September 2010, Pusha has repped G.O.O.D Music hard ever since, featuring prominently on the Cruel Summer compilation album. He was also featured on one of the singles off the album, “New God Flow”, coming with one of the best verses of 2012.
And with Pusha’s solo debut, My Name is My Name coming in October 2013, he’s got the rap game waiting with bated breath.
I believe there’s a God above me
I’m just the god of everything else
I do this for real, you lil niggas just fake it good Big Sean (Ft. Jeezy & Payroll Giovanni) – It's Time
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These lines focus on some opposites:
- bad bitch / good paper
Both descriptions, while being typically opposite in meaning, in context here, are positive indicators of how well Payroll is living life, with the finest women and a lot of money.
- real / fake
While Payroll is really really real, and he has actually lived through what he describes in his music, the haters have just learned to portray others' lives as their own, building a fake persona.
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Payroll represents the classic started-from-the-bottom story, making it to the top through his hustle, i.e. , hard work
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A shout out to Payroll’s Detroit rap group, Doughboyz Cashout, now signed to Young Jeezy’s CTE label.
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The legendary Sir Donald Bradman, nicknamed The Don is widely considered to be the greatest batsman in cricket history. His Test debut came against England at Brisbane in 1928/29, and his ODI debut was also versus England at The Oval in 1948
A right-handed batsman, he favored “horizontal-bat” shots (such as the hook, pull and cut), along with some splendid footwork that allowed him to pull off some amazing shots.
Don is most famous for his almost-perfect 99.94 Test Batting average, which is statistically said to the be the greatest personal record of any major sportsman. The only blemish on this record came during his final Test at The Oval versus Australia, where he was bowled out for a duck(incidentally the only duck of his career), thus bringing his batting average to 99.94. Just 4 more runs in that innings would have ensured a perfect 100.
Some other notable achievements:
In 1930 against England he scored 974 runs over the course of five Ashes Tests, the highest individual total in any Test series.
Bradman has scored 29 Test centuries, a third of them were converted to Double centuries and he also picked up 2 triple centuries, one of only two people to ever do this.
He was knighted for his services to cricket in 1949.
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Sir Donald Bradman retired from Test cricket in 1948, after playing a final tour in England captaining The Invincibles.. He passed away on 25th February 2001 aged 92
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