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President John Fitzgerald Kennedy was shot whilst riding through Dallas in a a 1961 Lincoln Continental convertible with the roof down. If he’d had the roof up, maybe the assassination attempt would have failed.

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A male monarch is a king, and his wife is a queen. Historically, kings have been pretty big on infidelity, and Henry VIII even invented a new church so he could get divorced, so maybe this isn’t as much of a compliment as it sounds like.

A female monarch is also called a queen, but her husband will not become the king. He’ll just be a prince.

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I’m your Pusha man.

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Working through a minor illness can lower your productivity and exacerbate the symptoms, as well as risking infecting your colleagues. That doesn’t stop people ploughing on regardless in a desperate attempt to get ahead. All that effort will be wasted if your disease worsens and you die.

Cage The Elephant are from the US, where there is no legal obligation to provide sick days. Despite this, American workers are actually more likely to take sick days than workers in countries like France, Spain, Italy, Ukraine, and China. Making a mockery of stereotypes, the only country where workers are more likely to take a sick day is Germany.

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Like an infinite God, Pusha is beyond compare. He illustrates this by referencing the song “93 til Infinity” featured on the album of the same name by ‘90s rap group Souls of Mischief, and the poem The Prodigal Song by James Weldon Johnson:

Young man—
Your arm’s too short to box with God.

The SoM were going to chill forever. Pusha has infinitely long arms, which makes him a boxer beyond compare.

Many rappers have referenced the Johnson line in their songs, such as Xzibit in “Bitch Please II”, Nas in “You’re Da Man”, Eminem in “Rap God”, and Black Star in “Thieves in the Night”.

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Pusha hasn’t always been recognised as a great rapper. When he was young, he made money by selling drugs with the help of a pager, which beeps when you have a message. Now, Pusha’s recognised as one of the best rappers around, and everyone wants him on their songs. He’s only going to get better.

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El Barrio is Spanish for “the hood”. It’s the local nickname for East Harlem, Manhattan. It is sometimes called “Spanish Harlem” because of the large numbers of Puerto Ricans who settled there after the First World War – it still has large Puerto Rican, Dominican, and Mexican populations. Pusha is going to buy drugs in East Harlem and then get out of there with the work.

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Unusual sounds during phone calls can indicate a bad wire tap. Pusha hears extra clicks on his dial tone, and thinks that someone is trying to get dirt on him.

In 2003, there was a scandal when the Bay Area Laboratory Co-Operative (BALCO) marketed tetrahydrogestrinone, a performance-enhancing drug, to professional athletes. Pusha’s such a notorious drug dealer that the Feds think he could be behind a major commercial drug scandal.

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