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There’s some sense of irony that he’s ‘Hoping’ while also somehow knowing

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Lady Scribe is saying that she understands that even while Jesus lived and died a lot of people didnt adhere to his message, so she expects no better, she just hopes that when she dies people don’t cry over her death, but listen to what she says in her music

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Some people feel they don’t have a connection to any form of divinity because of the picture painted around them

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Diamond studded crosses often causes people to forget that he was killed on rugged wood

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We praise Chains and materialistic things more than God

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Wordplay in “Inhale”

Inhale – Smoke, or “In Hell”

So Marijuana is used because the situations their in are like living in hell

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Penance: a sacrament, as in the Roman Catholic Church, consisting in a confession of sin, made with sorrow and with the intention of amendment, followed by the forgiveness of the sin.

In other words, they’re easy to condemn the sell of marijuana as sinning so it’s justified to set their bails to claim them as “penance”, or means to help them be forgiven

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when white men went against the law over a prohibited product the government decided to repeal that decision (The 18th and 21st amendment), but when it comes to African Americans the government would rater arrest every youth before allowing the legal sell of marijuana

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Wordplay on “Commitments” broken down as ‘Cum'mitments, meaning her people are continually f**ked (Almost in a sex with society type way) over so they’re easy to run for commitments, Children, Responsibilities, etc.

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When You’re locked in cuffs, you tend to be unable to run. So in a metaphorical sense, locking a group of people in jail forbids them from being able to run away from the convictions from people who criticize us. We’re cuffed in more than a physical sense.

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