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- Oh, wow. This sounds
like rap. (clears throat)

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(rapping) "How much a dollar really cost?

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The question is detrimental,
paralyzin' my thoughts.

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Parasites in my stomach
keep me with a gut feeling, y'all."

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- I'm guessing it's probably like hop hop.

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- Probably a rapper or
something, talking like that.

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- It's like an existential crisis.

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How much does a dollar really cost?

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You know what? A lot more
than you actually would think.

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- He's talking about
the value of a dollar,

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like how much are you
willing to do for a dollar?

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Just the idea of that makes me sick.

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- "Gotta see how I'm chillin'
once I park this luxury car.

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Hopping out feeling big
as Mutombo. '20 on pump 6.'"

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- I like the Dikembe Mutombo
reference, you know?

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'Cause of basketball.

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Feeling pretty awesome
if they're as big as Mutombo.

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That's a seven-footer.

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- It sounds like someone
who is doing well now.

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- When it says, "20 on pump 6,"

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I'm thinking about $20 on pump 6.

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But he's driving a luxury car,
and he's only putting $20.

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It's kind of a front,
like he just stunting.

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- That seems kind of like
proletariat, working class.

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Like, "$20 on pump 6."

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Like, "Not fill it up
using my black card."

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- "Walked out the gas
station, a homeless man

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with a semi-tan complexion
asked me for ten rand,

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stressin' about dry land."

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- "Deep water, powder blue skies
that crack open a piece of crack

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that he wanted. I knew he was smokin'.

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He begged and pleaded,
asked me to feed him twice.

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I didn't believe it, told him, 'Beat it.'"

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- He's using the word "crack"
in a couple different ways

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to get to the fact that this guy
looks like he's on crack.

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- So he's saying, "Oh,
the homeless man was like,

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'Give me money. I haven't eaten.'"
And this guy's going,

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"Uh-uh, you want to buy
and smoke a crack pipe, so beat it."

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- He or she probably feels
that he's worked for what he has

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and that that person is there
because he can do the same thing,

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which isn't necessarily the case,
but people have that attitude.

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"Contributin' money just
for his pipe. I couldn't see it.

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He said, 'My son, temptation
is one thing that I've defeated.'"

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- "'Listen to me, I want
a single bill from you.

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Nothin' less, nothin' more.'

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I told him I ain't have it
and closed my door."

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- A guy walked up on him and
was like, "Hey, come on, for real.

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Just one single, or can
you just give me a little bit?"

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- Damn, that's cold.

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He's asking for a dollar.

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Maybe he's gonna go buy a burger with it.

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Maybe he's gonna go buy crack with it.

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So maybe, "I just shut the door,

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'cause I go, I'm not
gonna feed your habit.

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But maybe I'm making
the wrong assumption."

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- This could be like a relation to Jesus,

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like some scripture stuff, saying,

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"Oh, Jesus came and asked me
for a dollar, and I said no."

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That sucks.

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- If he's rolling around
in that luxury car,

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he obviously has it, and he just
doesn't want to give it to him.

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My own philosophy is
somebody's hurting enough to ask,

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I'm probably gonna give.

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- "I never understood
someone beggin' for goods,

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askin' for handouts,
takin' it if they could.

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And this particular person
just had it down pat,

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starin' at me for the longest
until he finally asked..."

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- "'Have you ever opened up Exodus 14?

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A humble man is all that we ever need.'"

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- Really? Okay, sorry.

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I just can't believe he put
the Bible in this. (chuckles)

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- The artist, I guess, is a person

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who's always done things for themselves

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to try to make their own--
doesn't understand

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how you can ask for something
without anything else in return.

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- The guy asking for money
busts out a Bible verse.

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Okay? Really trying to play
the conscience card.

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- Now what they've done is
they've actually stooped to the level

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of using the Bible.

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- Now scripture's in there,
and that is some heavy,

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'cause if you know your scripture, right,

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you're supposed to take care,

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you're supposed to feed the hungry.

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"Are you a religious man? I don't know."

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That's what that guy's asking.

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- We have all begged for handouts.

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Now, sometimes people
need help with money.

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Other times, you need help
for emotional support.

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So stop judging people who need handouts.

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- "Tell me how much a dollar cost.
It's more to feed your mind.

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Water, sun, and love-- the one you love.

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All you need, the air you breathe."

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So he's back to the, "Tell me
how much a dollar cost,"

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from the first line.

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- It's more like the value of life.

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Like, how much do you love yourself?

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How much could a dollar feed you?

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How much could love feed you?

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- Money isn't worth a lot,
like material things.

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But it meant something
to the homeless man.

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So I don't-- it's kind of contradictory.

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- The artist is challenging the listener

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to ask himself that question.
Like, what is more important:

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to be materialistic or
to not be materialistic?

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- That is a very simplistic
way to look at life.

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It's very easy to say this
when you have a full belly

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and a roof over your head.
Once those things are taken care of,

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then you start going,

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"Oh, well, now I can appreciate
the beauty of the world."

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- "Guilt-trippin' and feelin' resentment.

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I never met a transient
that demanded attention.

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They got me frustrated,
indecisive, and power-trippin'."

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- Now, this is poetry, guys.

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- He's really upset at his own ego,

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because he's being challenged on it.

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- He's power-tripping 'cause he's like,

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"Well, I got to where I am
because of the work I put in.

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What work are you putting in?"

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- It's not even about
the homeless man anymore.

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It's about himself. It's like,
"Do I want to do the right thing?

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What is the right thing to do?

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And now I feel guilty about it,
and I feel bad about it."

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- "Sour emotions got me
lookin' at the universe different.

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I should distance myself.
I should keep it relentless.

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My selfishness is what got me here.
Who the [bleep] I'm kiddin'?"

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- He's looking at his own emotions now

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about what he did or
didn't do, how he reacted.

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- "Who the [bleep] am I kidding
with this show of this car?

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Who the [bleep] I think I am
that I'm not helping this person?

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Am I any better than him?
Like, why shouldn't I believe him?"

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- He probably saying,
"I know I've done dirt before,

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and I probably sold drugs before,

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and I'm trying to act like
I'm so innocent and I'm so holy

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to try to stop this person.
But in real talk,

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I probably do the same stuff that he do."

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- You kind of feel like, when you
work hard, you busted your ass

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and you feel like everybody else
should to get where you got.

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It's not just work. Sometimes it's luck.

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- "So I'ma tell you like
I told the last bum:

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crumbs and pennies, I need all of mines."

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- "And I recognize this type
of panhandling all the time.

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I got better judgment.
I know when [bleep] hustlin'."

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- "Keep in mind, when I was strugglin',

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I did compromise. Now I comprehend."

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- Maybe this guy knows from experience

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what it's like to be down and out.

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- He was on that same end
of the homeless person,

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that he was there struggling.

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But he compromised.
And instead of asking for handouts,

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he worked really hard
to try to get to the top,

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and then he made it.

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- He worked for his, and
he's gonna keep all of his.

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But you have something.
Congratulations, you have something.

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You did it. That's all your hard work.

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But what are you giving back?

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- "I smell Grandpa's old medicine,
reekin' from your skin.

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The jig is up. I seen you
from a mile away losin' focus.

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And I'm insensitive, and I lack empathy."

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- "He looked at me and said,
'Your potential is bittersweet.'

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I looked at him and said,
'Every nickel is mines to keep.'"

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- He's trying to be strict with him.
He's trying to tell him,

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"Shape up. I'm not gonna
be giving you anything."

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- He's completely put up that wall.

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- "Medicine" is the alcohol.

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- "I smell what's happening,
I see your out-of-focus eyes,

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and I know you're not
getting any dime of mine."

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And I'll say I've been in that
place too, right? Who hasn't?

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- "He looked at me and said,
'Know the truth; it'll set you free.

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You're lookin' at the Messiah,
the son of Jehovah,

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the higher power.

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The choir that spoke
the word, the Holy Spirit.'"

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- "'The nerve of Nazareth,

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and I'll tell you just
how much a dollar cost.

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The price of having a spot
in Heaven, embrace your loss.

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I am God.'"

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- Wow. If he wasn't messed up before,
he's really messed up now.

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- He's trying to give everyone
some spiritual lectures.

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- It's interesting because
we don't know who that is.

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So if you're telling me you're God,

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how the [bleep] do I know
if you are or not?

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- God is in all of us, right?
God is everyone?

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So that's what the homeless man
is pulling out of his hat.

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That's some heavy,
heavy stuff right there.

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- The person who's asking
for the money is letting him know

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that money is not that important.

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What he's giving up to get that money

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is costing him his place in Heaven.

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- "Shades of grey will
never change if I condone.

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Turn this page, help me change,
so right my wrongs."

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- He's looking for assistance
to try and move forward.

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- He's thinking about
things more and saying,

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"Okay, I do need it.
I need help with this."

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So rather than being
the one giving the help,

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he's become the one needing the help.

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- Considering what it took
him to get that dollar,

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what that dollar cost him,
how he got there in the first place,

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if he condones this,
if he hands this guy a buck

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and the guy goes out and scores,

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it's just perpetuating a problem.

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Damn. That is PROFOUND right there.

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- (Finebros) So what was this song about?

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- It's about a man who obviously
worked for what he has,

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and he has lots of material wealth

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and feels like he shouldn't share it

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to perpetuate society's ills.

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- Not relating to people,
relating to people,

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being able to put ourselves
in someone else's shoes,

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and accepting the fact
that we do not know it all.

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- Choices along life,
whether they are minor choices

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that don't really seem
like much at one point.

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They could be major choices that

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could affect you later on down the road.

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- (Finebros) Do you know
the song's title and artist?

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- Mm-mm.

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- I have no clue.

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- No.

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- I do not.

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- I don't!

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- I have no idea, and I'm
impressed, whoever it is.

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I want to know.

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- That Diddy guy?

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- Macklemore & Ryan Lewis?

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- (Finebros) So this song is
"How Much a Dollar Cost"

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by Kendrick Lamar.
- Kendrick Lamar.

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- Okay, I've heard the name.

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- I can't believe I don't know this.

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- Oh man. (chuckles)

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Oh, my daughter's gonna kill me.

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- I don't listen to Kendrick
that much, but perhaps I should.

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- (Finebros) Lamar told MTV
that this song is based

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off a true experience which
made him reflect on his career

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and his relationship with others.

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Lamar has struggled to reconcile
with his newfound fame

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and status with the circumstances

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under which he grew up in Compton.

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- I'm sure that's a real struggle.

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I mean, people think, once you have money,

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everything gets solved.

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But you tend to go inwards
and reflect a lot,

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and that's what he's doing.

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- It's kinda nice when
you listen to a song

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and you know that
it comes from their heart.

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- When you're raised in a certain area

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and you finally make it on top,

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"I bust myself so hard, bust my butt
so hard to get where I'm at.

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You know, you could do the same thing.

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You're no different than me."

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- When you dissect it and you
have a better understanding,

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then you see that this song
is really another mask

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to hide your insecurities.

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- You got it all, right?

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So doesn't the Lord
tell you to share it all?

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Isn't that what we're supposed to do?

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But do you really want to?
'Cause how much did that dollar

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cost you to make in the first place?
That is the human condition.

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Kendrick Lamar, genius.

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- Thanks for watching us break down
"How Much a Dollar Cost"

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on the React channel.

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- What song should we
break down next time?

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Let us know in the comments.

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- (rapping) It doesn't cost
a dollar to hit that Like button,

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so hit it.

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- See you next time!

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♪ (rock music) ♪