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This song came out after D.O.C. had his tragic car accident. Dre is promoting D.O.C.’s album from two years prior, No One Can Do It Better, and its single “It’s Funky Enough.”

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X didn’t drop names directly but the song’s subliminals are known to be directed towards Ja Rule, who was supposedly known to frequent certain boy bars and had a close associate who was a cross-dressing hair stylist.

Even now, Ja has to deny gay rumors.

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Jay’s paying tribute to Biggie in all these lines, but is also making a reference to the power struggle in NYC for the “Throne of Hip-Hop”.

Before passing Nas and Biggie were in a beef over who was the King of NY and there were several other rap figures who blamed Bad Boy for ruining the image of hip-hop.

Jay-Z states that since he was second to Biggie in the Commission supergroup (referenced in the next line) that he automatically assumes top spot as King of NYC. This album (and this song in particular) would turn out to be the match that ignited the Nas/Jay-Z feud, as Nas soon started redirecting his lyrical shots from Biggie to Jay-Z.

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Be careful when Mystikal and his crew are in the area! Yikes!

“Beware” was also one of Mystikal’s first big hits

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2Pac is saying that at first, he only had a problem with Notorious B.I.G. However, people started taking sides, so now Pac has beef with everyone who is associated with Biggie.

ACCEPTED SUGGESTION: The main issue was that Suge wanted to take Puffy out the game and neither label (Death Row or Bad Boy) had artists from anywhere outside of their regional homebase (Sam Sneed was gone and Kurupt is from Philly, not the same as NY at the time) so people were lumping all associates under the same mindstate as Suge. The “New York New York” video really opened it up when BIG went on radio dissing NY for letting Death Row artists shoot a video in their city. That’s how the East started unifying against anyone who spoke out on BIG without really having nothing to do with it in the first place, e.g. “I Shot Ya” by LL Cool J was blatantly intended to be a West Coast diss, and it also sparked groups like De La Soul and ATCQ and others to speak out about the deterioration of the culture because of the West’s influences and certain magazines like The Source and Vibe were allying with the East and prompted to paint the West Coast in bad light at any moment possible which brought Ice Cube and DJ Quik into it as they had faced media struggles most of their careers for “Banging on Wax”. He’s saying that if people would mind their business it wouldn’t have come to this, how everyone ran to BIG side when he called out DPG, but 2Pac wasn’t even a part of that project or song and didn’t drag them into it until later in ‘96, when it became apparent that artists were attacking his family because of him and he wanted them to defend themselves (in the sense of not letting a man fight another battle for you).

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  • Whats the name of your perfume, “fishes”?

To' up cot – normally refers to a girl who has had multiple sex partners and unlike a virgin with tight genitalia, her is loose and spread apart

“P” represents Piru and the motto they share through Blood affiliation M(oney) O(ver) B(itches)

close mouths dont get fed dick as in fellatio

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In the midst of Nas' problems Jay-Z released “Takeover” which was a diss track aimed at Nas. People at the time thought this would assassinate Nas but ironically it just made him stronger, evidence lies in “Ether”. Who do you think won?

A nice anecdote about this time was when Jungle was listening to The Blueprint and he jumped out of his car in the middle of traffic and jumped in Nas' car and made Nas listen to the album. Jungle and Havoc both had to convince Nas to stop letting Jay-Z slide with his dissing and get back in the booth(at the time he had went nearly 2 years without recording material for a solo project, just his QB compilations).

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RBX requests a Zig-Zag to roll the next joint with. Zig-Zags come either as cigarillos or in rolling papers. Known to burn extra slow which can be aided even more by dipping it in a glaze jar.

You can see where Dre got his cover inspiration from. The original vinyl copies of The Chronic actually came wrapped in zig-zag wrappers.

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“K” is a gang symbol, notably on graffiti tags, for murder/defeat. Normally a tag gets crossed out by a K signifying defeat

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Rappin 4-Tay was a rapper signed to No Limit records. In this skit he is answering the phone in their offices. That’s harsh

ACCEPTED COMMENT: Rappin 4-Tay worked with P first when P came to the Bay Area on his older projects like Ghetto’s Tryin to Kill Me

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