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RZA refers to this line specifically in “The Wu-Tang Manual.” Meth wanted to let other rappers know that he was going to take them to boot camp and teach them a lesson. Also, like zxc said before, Meth on numerous occasions refers to himself as a southpaw, which is the slang term for a lefty – hence, he’s movin' on your left, AHH!

The original line is from Strafe’s 1984 breaking classic, “Set it Off”: “Set it off on the left y'all /
Set it off on the right y'all”

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Shout out to NY, New Orleans, and America.

The times are somewhat enigmatic; they definitely don’t have anything to do with timezones, as it would be earlier in New Orleans than in NY. One thing’s for certain though, “Goodnight America” is a reference to the American morning TV show “Good Morning America”

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Impeach The President is a classic 1973 song by The Honey Drippers that has been sampled countless times. It is a really easy drum break to rap off of, it has a really simple rhythm. If you can’t rap to it, in all honesty, you shouldn’t be rapping at all.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wqbEsS5kFb8

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A stack and a G are both slang for $1000, but he also means he does it like a “G” (Gangsta). This is an example of Lil Wayne’s signature whoops I mean technique that he uses a lot

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This is a reference to 2Pac’s song “When We Ride On Our Enemies”

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This could mean two things

  1. It might be foreshadowing the following two lines suggesting that the girl is dancing awkwardly (or outlandishly), which is caused by her lack of self esteem as a whole, because she’s never had a positive, loving, experience with a partner

  2. If you’d like to translate it into a deeper meaning – the girl is jumping from relationship to relationship because each guy has been wrong for her.

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Meek’s mother had to look after Meek when he was young because his father died. In keeping with the Pac-referencing theme of this song, 2Pac’s mother was a “soldier” for the black panthers, she was released out of prison just a few weeks before Pac was born.

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He will tell the absolute truth at this point, and to deny that he shall do so would be an implied non-truth

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When a negative number is subtracted from another negative number, the two minus signs cancel each other out and turn into a positive sign.

Minus 1 minus minus 1 = minus 1 plus 1

Minus 1 plus 1 = 0

A possible allusion to two wrongs making a right

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