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| Topic subject | "Even if you in a Benz, you still a nigga in a coupe" |
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12793882, "Even if you in a Benz, you still a nigga in a coupe"
Posted by double negative, Wed Apr-29-15 01:32 PM
Revisited this album and this line stuck out for me
and I wonder how it operates
Is Kanye calling out the duality of perception in that no matter who you are THEY will always see you as less and at the same time no matter where you are YOU will be mentally caged by that limitation.
Then going further I think about how I grew up hearing this from some disenfranchised black people and I wonder how that operates for them.
Is the sentiment used the same way as a Kanye uses it, or is it also used in a way to limit ones own self to attempt to participate in society?
Not sure if this makes sense but that line definitely got me thinking today
or, is it not that deep?
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12793887, i always interpreted it as this:
Posted by KiloMcG, Wed Apr-29-15 01:35 PM
>no matter who you are THEY will always see you as less
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12793890, RE: i always interpreted it as this:
Posted by boombapdame, Wed Apr-29-15 01:37 PM
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>>no matter who you are THEY will always see you as less
It is what it is and I can't stand those who think perception isn't reality though sometimes not ironically it isn't.
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12794097, ^doesn't seem much deeper than that
Posted by Atillah Moor, Wed Apr-29-15 04:31 PM
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12793915, all they see is a nigga regardless of what you drive
Posted by legsdiamond, Wed Apr-29-15 01:56 PM
especially the PO-lice
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12794064, Or how much money you got. Just ask Oprah
Posted by Shaun Tha Don, Wed Apr-29-15 03:55 PM
about the last time she visited Europe.
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12794073, this
Posted by Cenario, Wed Apr-29-15 04:01 PM
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12793917, both
Posted by infin8, Wed Apr-29-15 01:57 PM
sometimes I see 'the block boys' out there gettin it how they live...
and even tho' they in a Benz, it just be some niggas in a coupe.
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12794068, There's also a double entendre with coupe/coop. Nigga in a cage.
Posted by soulfunk, Wed Apr-29-15 03:59 PM
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12794072, yep
Posted by double negative, Wed Apr-29-15 04:01 PM
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12794074, and that
Posted by Cenario, Wed Apr-29-15 04:01 PM
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12794078, ^this^
Posted by PROMO, Wed Apr-29-15 04:07 PM
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12794211, ^bingo
Posted by illEskoBar221, Wed Apr-29-15 08:13 PM
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