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“Based on a True Story” complicates things by wallowing in self-psychology and an elitist’s sense of what darkness is to a gazillionaire on songs such as “Tantrum.”
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“I heard he won the Oscar but he had to give it back/ And you know they only made him do that shit because he’s Black.”

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