Skepta/Trivia
- Shout-Out:
- "Gingerbread Man" is named after the folktale.
- Also in "Gingerbread Man":
- "Gingerbread Man" is named after the folktale.
"Diss me, you're a walking dead man |
"Watching me like I'm wearing a pink dress |
"Skepta, I can't run out of bars |
- In "Konnichiwa":
"I killed every song that I touched |
- In "Skepta Interlude":
"Stand up tall, right next to Kobe" |
"Pussyholes tried to execute me |
"Got the Austin Powers, a man's extra groovy" |
"They wanna bust jokes, they think I'm Damon Wayans" |
- In "Praise the Lord (Da Shine)" by A$AP Rocky, Skepta interpolates DMX's flow from the song "Who We Be":
I listened, to X, I peeped, the bars (yeah) |
- Also in "Praise the Lord (Da Shine)", "I hustle, I flex, the world, is mine", a reference to Tony Montana's mantra from Scarface.
- Stock Shout-Outs:
- To Martin Luther King Jr's "I Had a Dream" speech in "Skepta Interlude".
- A form of "Veni, vidi, vici" ("I came; I saw; I conquered") is said in "Praise the Lord (Da Shine)" by A$AP Rocky.
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