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He’s listening to beats on repeat, trying to match his flow with the beat patterns
He’s “getting old”, so he’s trying to figure the patterns in his life, since history repeats itself. He then proceeds to describe them: drugs and rapping.

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The Future Is Now joint, Rock Stars, unforgettable
The way he flipped Above The Clouds on the hook was incredible Ill Bill – World Premier

Rock Stars, from Ill Bill’s group first Album *The Future is Now", was produced by DJ Premier.

The hook is an example of Premier’s signature scratched hook, and includes a line from Inspectah Deck on Above the Clouds: “Wild like Rock Stars who smash guitars”

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Slayer and Scarface inspired me to write insane rhymes Ill Bill (Ft. A-Trak) – Acceptance Speech

Ill Bill continues mentioning rock and rap influences together:

Slayer, the trash metal band, was signed to Def Jam by Rick Rubin. Scarface is one of the best rappers to ever bless the mic.

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Rick Rubin made me wanna flip em both at the same time Ill Bill (Ft. A-Trak) – Acceptance Speech

Rick Rubin, who co-founded Def Jam with Russel Simmons, is known for mixing rock and rap.

Among other classics, he’s responsible for the hit Aerosmith and Run D.M.C. collaboration “Walk this Way”

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Stretch 'em like Lesnar CZARFACE (Ft. Roc Marciano) – Cement 3's

The Wrestler Brock Lesnar was a part of a tag team known as “The Minnesota Stretching Crew”.

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Rise like the deficit CZARFACE (Ft. Action Bronson) – It's Raw

The US budget deficit gre during the recent financial crysis:

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Rebel spit effortless CZARFACE (Ft. Action Bronson) – It's Raw

Rebel INS is an Inspector Deck alias. Deck is saying rhymes come to him easily without much thought or effort.

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7, Es and Deck, drop it
It was worth the wait CZARFACE (Ft. Action Bronson) – It's Raw

7L, Esoteric and Inspectah Deck collaborated on Speaking Real Words, released in 2006. They finally released their full collaboration, Czarface, in 2013.

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"7, Es and Deck, drop it / It was worth the wait" (CZARFACE – It's Raw) | accepted

It’s “Inspectah”, not “Inspector”

"Gimme your heiney - it'll fit - you'll see!" (Tonedeff – Pervert) | pending

Tonedeff, commenting your explanation on Episode 27 of Tacos & Chocolate Milk, denies being self-centered

"Making sure my punctuation curve, every letter is true / ..." (Kendrick Lamar – Poetic Justice) | rejected

“Living my life in the margin and that metaphor was proof” may be a reference to Fermat’s Last Theorem. Fermat wrote on the margin of his copy of “Arithmetica” that he had a proof for the theorem, but it was too large to fit in the margin. The Theorem remained unproven until 1995.

(fun fact: if you Google margin+proof, you only get references for Fermat and this rapgenius page)

"When 2 niggas making it out had never sounded logical / 3..." (Kendrick Lamar – Black Boy Fly) | rejected

This thinking is a common fallacy involving Conditional Probabilitie.

Taking the lottery metaphor that Kendrick uses on the second verse: assuming that two different people in Compton winning the lottery are independent events, and assuming that the probability of a single person winning the lottery in Compton is 0.0001, then the probability of three people in Compton winning the lottery is 0.000000000001, which looks basically impossible.

However, the fact that two people already won the lottery (Arron Afflalo and The Game) doesn’t affect the odds of Kendrick also winning, which remain at 0.0001. Therefore, the fear felt by Kendrick is not rational (but it is very real).

"Made Me an Angel on Angel Dust, what" (Kendrick Lamar – M.A.A.d City) | accepted

An angel is supposedly peaceful, but Kendrick is like a guy on PCP, aka Angel Dust, whose effect include euphoria and paranoia. He’s still a good kid though: an Angel on Angel Dust.

"As the dollar continues to lose momentum" (JJ DOOM – Guv'nor) | accepted

Also, the Dollar in getting weaker against other currencies.

See, for example, EUR vs. USD: http://finance.yahoo.com/q/bc?s=EURUSD=X&t=1y&l=on&z=m&q=l&c=

El-P – Tougher Colder Killer | rejected

Tried to add the rest of the song (with a lot of blanks, someone fill them please). There’s still a few bars missing.

Apathy – Check to Check | accepted

Thanks Meds86. Lyrics corrected.

"Number 4: I know you heard this before / "Never get high ..." (The Notorious B.I.G. – Ten Crack Commandments) | accepted

On Scarface, this is actually rule number two:

Frank Lopez: Lesson number one: Don’t underestimate the other guy’s greed!
Elvira Hancock: Lesson number two: Don’t get high on your own supply.