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Killer King hospital refers to Martin Luther King, Jr. Multi-Service Ambulatory Care Center, which is located just north of Compton, which is Ice Cube’s hood.
It’s infamous for being the place where most of Compton’s victims of gang violence end up. In 2003, it handled 2,150 gunshot wounds and other life-threatening injuries. The hospital is known for having major issues with management and incompetency, a perceived lack of quality at the hospital had earned it the nickname of “Killer King.”
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This is a popular place to hide your gun, in the waist band of your pants near your back (the small of your back).
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Griffith Park is an urban park in the city of Los Angeles, which is where OG Cube is from. In this line, he’s threatening to take a life in this very location…
“The park covers 4,310 acres (1,740 ha) of land, making it one of the largest urban parks in North America. It is the second-largest city park in California.” – Wikipedia
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If you thought Will Smith was “Big Willie”…
You guessed wrong!
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So much money that even the federal government is questions where it came from.
Maybe a bit of an overstatement, because by this time, Cube had starred in multiple movies and had released multiple chart topping albums (including this one)… He’s got that Hollywood money.
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Cube opens with, “Once upon a time”, which lets the listener know that what we’re going to hear is a narrative. It’s a phrase that has been the opening for countless stories since 1380. It’s most commonly used in children stories and typically ends with “happily ever after” (or something along those lines).
A simple Urban Dictionary search tells us:
Projects
Usually a group of dirty buildings made for really poor/homeless people to live in. Projects are dangerous,very dirty,filled with gangsters,drug dealers,pimps,hookers and such. The first set of projects made(Starret City,made in 1963) where made for Blacks to live in,but over the years people of all races started to live in projects.
So it’s official… Cube’s story begins in a bad neighborhood.
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