Biggie - "Hypnotize" "That's why I, squeeze first ask quesions last. That's how most of these so called gangstas pass" Jigga - "Squeeze 1st" "That's why I, squeeze first ask quesions last.
If you could feel how my face felt
You would know how Mase felt (Mason Betha!)
Thank God I ain't too cool for the safe belt Kanye West – Through the Wire
You would know how Mase felt (Mason Betha!)
Thank God I ain't too cool for the safe belt Kanye West – Through the Wire
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Kanye would have died in the accident if he hadn’t buckled up. Instead, he simply broke his jaw like Ma$e after a brawl with Ghostface Killah and his entourage.
On the I’m Good version of “Through The Wire”, Ma$e’s real name Mason Betha is shouted out in the background. This could also be a double entendre as a reference to mace, a tear gas spray used in self-defence sprayed in people’s faces.
Coincidentally, the accident made Kanye feel religious, just as Ma$e left the music industry to become a minister.
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And just imagine how my girl feel
On the plane scared as hell that her guy look like Emmett Till Kanye West – Through the Wire
On the plane scared as hell that her guy look like Emmett Till Kanye West – Through the Wire
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Kanye likens the facial damage to that of Emmett Till, a black teenager who was brutally murdered in 1955 for allegedly whistling at a white woman. Like Till, Kanye was also raised in Chicago.
Till’s mother insisted on an open-casket funeral and JET magazine ran photos to publicize the brutality of the murder.
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Jay-Z has taken internet flack for ripping lines from Biggie. Detractors say he’s a biter, supporters say he’s paying homage to a friend. Regardless, it’s an issue.
Here’s a video with proof of Jay-Z’s extensive “homage” to The Notorious B.I.G.
Here Nas takes another jab at Jay-Z’s lips.
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The only time the two races get some bonding time is when they kill one another.
The only time that government truly considers minorities Americans is when we are at war killing other humans (each other). They had no problem using black slaves. It is estimated that 5,000 African Americans served as soldiers for the Continental Army.
In modern times, many military advertisements are aimed at recruiting young African-American men.
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Some references to Jay’s pre-fame days. He wore a Hawaiian shirt in the video for mentor Jaz’s 1989 song “Hawaiian Sophie”.
A friend named Chase comes up in the book Empire State of Mind: How Jay Z Went from Street Corner to Corner Office:
Chase I understand is someone fairly unknown and Jay and the Roc was surprised Nas knew who Chase was which suggests Nas had inside information from someone close to Jay to write that line
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@salishan13 seems legit. need a source before we integrate something like that though.
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Jay Z wasn’t selling anything in 88 but a rhyme being Jaz O’s sidekick who discovered him threw Jay Z’s little home Chase who used to called Jay Shawny D