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Anonymous

"6 foot, 7 foot, 8 foot, bunch!" is a sample from Harry Belafonte's Day-O (The Banana Boat Song). I love this song. it's a series of one-liners, almost like Weezy's a stand-up.

Kenydell Gaither

This actually isn’t Cory Gunz first appearance. He was on the original version of A Mili

Anonymous

It really is a challenge to grasp rap lyrics if you aren’t accustomed to it. I started listening to rap in middle school and I think it took me till about college to feel like I could follow along to most songs and catch word play in real time. That’s what I love about rap, though! A bar from a song I’ve known for a decade can not slap me in the face until years later! It’s alway a treasure hunt with rap—the more bars you consume and the more life experience you obtain equals a larger frame of reference. It gets easier to detect the self-referential nature of rap music and the intertextuality present in all of rap as a genre. Dad is progressing fast, thanks for providing so much entertainment!

Anonymous

ALSO: understanding different styles; i.e. storytelling vs battle vs punchline

Amanda B

After watching this and A Milli I think any songs that lack a chorus maybe we should have mandatory breaks to process what we've heard?

Chase Cannon

Also worth noting Wayne is the king of non-sequiturs. One bar isn’t always related to the next except in terms of flow or rhyme scheme. It’s hard to piece together the first time!