Skepta/Trivia

• Shout-Out:
  • "Gingerbread Man" is named after the folktale.
    • Also in "Gingerbread Man":

"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"

"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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