@ChaimNapolitano@DrSweets24 Umbrella is a Rihanna song. Let’s not do this again. Izzo is not a pop song. It’s a commercial rap record there’s a difference.
USA. A restaurant. I could not finish my meal, and I bowed my head in shame.
Then they handed me a box, and I nearly wept.
The plate had been enormous. I am a samurai; I do not surrender to food. But this was a siege, and halfway through I knew I could not win. I set down my fork. In my country, to leave food on the plate is to insult the rice, the farmer, the cook, and your own ancestors, roughly in that order. So I sat there, quietly making peace with my dishonor.
Then the waitress smiled and said the most beautiful sentence I have heard here.
"You want a box for that?"
A box. To take it. Home.
I went still.
"You would save it?" I asked.
"Yeah, of course. It's still good."
It's still good. Three words my grandmother said to me a thousand times, across an ocean, in another language, over a bowl I was not allowed to leave.
I had crossed the world expecting to find everything different here. And a stranger in an apron had just handed me my grandmother's exact heart, in a small paper container, without knowing she had done anything at all.
I took the box. I held it like a newborn. I bowed to her, to the cook, and to the half a sandwich within, which would now live to see another day.
That night I ate it by a window, slowly, the way you eat something that was nearly lost. It was, if anything, better the second time. Everything saved is.
So now I order too much on purpose. Not from greed. From faith. Because I have learned that here, the same as home, a meal does not end when you are full.
It ends when the box is empty.
And the box is never empty the same day.
Which means a good meal can last forever,
as long as someone, anyone, still believes it is too good to waste.
@Earmerican@bornwithhorns67@les_azmiz I explained why it doesn’t make logical sense. Ignoring the fact that Mike didn’t wanna be white, well let that part slide. And that’s why the line doesn’t work for me. U don’t have anything to say regarding the actual content of the bar. J Cole was not under Kendrick lol
@Sermanson_2002@DrSweets24 Lmao one day you’ll learn. There’s a glaring difference between rap records with commercial appeal and “pop” rap. Niggas In Paris is a pop rap record. Same as Without Me. Learn the difference.
@Sermanson_2002@DrSweets24 No way u think a song where Kanye says “everybody on your dick no homo” is a pop song. There’s a difference between rap songs with a commercial appeal and straight up poppy rap intended for a pop audience which is what Eminem has made time and time again.
@bornwithhorns67@les_azmiz@Earmerican Jay-Z is not from TDE. When is it confirmed he said that? Cole explicitly explained that nobody told him to back out that it was his own conscience that removed him the battle. The line didn’t make sense lol terrible explanation
@Sermanson_2002@DrSweets24 Features for pop artists?! Are u serious?? Empire State of Mind is a rap song. So is Run This Town. Like I said. U don’t know the difference lol
@bornwithhorns67@les_azmiz@Earmerican It’s not even a good flip because Kendrick had no control or say in J Cole’s career to “keep him out the light” - tired of ppl gassing that weak ass shit
@Sermanson_2002@DrSweets24 You must be a bot. I know more about Jay’s music than you’ll ever know. Please learn the difference between a rap song and a pop song before you come and respond to me.