Skepta/Trivia

""Diss me, you're a walking dead man Could have been Bruce Lee, could have been Jackie Chan I'm Karate Kid, send for the head band""
 * Shout-Out:
 * "Gingerbread Man" is named after the folktale.
 * Also in "Gingerbread Man":

""Watching me like I'm wearing a pink dress I'm Bowser, them man are like Princess""

""Skepta, I can't run out of bars And if sky's the limit, I'm heading for the stars Back to the future, spaceship cars""


 * In "Konnichiwa":

""I killed every song that I touched And I turned into MC Hammer, they can't touch me""


 * In "Skepta Interlude":

""Stand up tall, right next to Kobe""

""Pussyholes tried to execute me Died and came back as Fela Kuti""

""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) The snakes, the rats, the cats, the dogs"


 * 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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