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    "comment": "This title is likely a reference to Harlem Renaissance poet Countee Cullen’s poem “Incident,”\n\nOnce riding in old Baltimore,\nHeart-filled, head-filled with glee,\nI saw a Baltimorean\nKeep looking straight at me.\n\nNow I was eight and very small,\nAnd he was no whit bigger,\nAnd so I smiled, but he poked out\nHis tongue, and called me, ‘Nigger.’\n\nI saw the whole of Baltimore\nFrom May until December;\nOf all the things that happened there\nThat’s all that I remember.\n--\n\"May-December\" contains samples of \"Rock Your Baby\" by The Sunshine Band.",
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