Within this piece of Bonasera’s dialogue, we see him go through the process like “a good American” of attaining justice for his daughter, but the American justice system as represented by “the police” fails him. The American justice system is immediately introduced as weak and inadequate.

It is here that a new justice is born for Bonasera – Don Corleone, who holds all power in his hands. The Don is a symbol of power and doing all that must be done, while the police are symbols of weakness and inadequacy.

Bonasera speaks of his daughter losing her beauty and her ability to register any emotion but pain. The loss of his daughter’s beauty has in turn broken down Bonasera – he is left only seeking out one thing: revenge. The contrast, as discussed in the annotation above, between this vision of broken beauty and pain and the vision of the Don’s daughter’s wedding is stark.

In some cases, the two daughters operate as opposites: the Don’s daughter is fulfilling her duty as a woman within the Corleone family by getting married, becoming almost as beautiful as she ever will be, while Bonasera’s daughter has had her beauty and her chance at marriage (at least to this man, who has abused her) stripped away from her. However, the Don’s daughter also moves away from the family with her marriage – marrying a man that the family does not approve of and will never be “in the business”.

James Caan, who plays Sonny Corleone in the movie, improvised the whole segment in which he takes the photographer’s camera and after smashing it on the ground, shakes the photographer violently by his jacket.

You can see the terror in the face of the extras – genuine reactions!

Ten times three refers to Danny Brown’s album XXX, which is “named for his gutter-filthy mouth and his 30th birthday”.

Danny addresses the irony of the “cool kids” by saying that they think they’re so real even though they’re popping pills, molly, ecstasy, etc. to go a fake state of mind where they can be cool.

The lines are borrowed from Kendrick Lamar from his song “Look Out For Detox”;

Acting like you real or something

Go pop some pills or something

But I guess Kendrick does owe Danny a line after Kendrick infamously borrowed this line in 2013’s TDE BET Cypher:

I say “Hold up, wait a minute
Your career ain’t shit unless you got some Kendrick in it!”

John Mitchell was U.S. Attorney General before leaving to serve as Nixon’s campaign chair in 1971.

When John Dean says here that Mitchell was “one of the ones with the most to lose” – he most certainly was. As the Washington Post revealed in 1972, “Mitchell controlled a secret Republican fund that was used to gather information about the Democrats.”

The fund, primarily consisting of donations made to Nixon’s campaign, was kept secret and only accessible to key players in the campaign – the only record and list of whom was destroyed following the the June 17 break-in at the Watergate.

TLC would carry on the message of safe sex and HIV awareness to the hip hop community through cautionary tale songs such as Waterfalls, in which a similar line references to a “three-letter word” – HIV.

Of course, “it” here = sex. Salt ‘n’ Pepa address sex directly in this song, perhaps more directly than in any other – even going as far as to deny songs like “Push It” were about sex! Perhaps for Salt ‘n’ Pepa, discussions of sex needed to be coupled with additional significance – the sexual subtext of their music only contributed to their commercial success.

“How it was” here means unsafe sex – “how it could be” means having sex responsibly and with protection.

“Let’s Talk About Sex” later turned into “Let’s Talk About Aids” after the late Peter Jennings asked the group to revise the song for a special that aired in 1992 on ABC News called “Living in the Age of AIDS” – directly discussing sex in conversation with AIDS prevention and safe sex.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OpsUVuWLM44

Salt ‘n’ Pepa were known for the sexual content in their songs – funnily enough, many times unintended by the artists themselves!

In a profile done on Salt ‘n’ Pepa from Rolling Stone, October 16, 1997, titled “They Do It Their Way”, Chris Mundy writes of the subtext within their songs and how the group actually doesn’t really like to talk about sex:

Singing about sex is rock & roll’s oldest obsession. So, before they decided to have a message to their madness, Salt-n-Pepa were talking about sex. Which seems pretty obvious, especially if you look at the song titles. “Let’s Talk About Sex” springs to mind. In fact, about the only people who don’t seem convinced of this fact are Salt-n-Pepa themselves.

“It depends on your mind-set,” says James when the topic is broached. “When I listen to ‘Gitty Up,’ I think of two people on the dance floor, dancing. It depends where your dirty little head is at.”

“‘Wanna freak me from the back’ means dancing, but if you have brain dirt …” says James. She stares. “Most men think like that,” she adds. “Most men will never believe ‘Push It’ was never about sex.”