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Kirk uses the homonym of “high/hi” to say hello to the listener and also to show he’s high as well.

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Describing a friendly game of spin the bottle and successfully landing on the person you want.

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Wig pushed back means to get shot in the head. Good luck keeping your wig in place if you get hit with a bullet to the dome.

Possible reference to Yasiin Bey’s line on the song “Brooklyn”:

Have a mishap, push your wig back

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Lately most rappers/MC’s use cheap gimmicks to sell records. Joey introduces himself as not being one of those MC’s. He’s a 100% genuine person when it comes to his music.

Also interesting to note is that this Joey begins to sing almost exactly 1 minute into the song.

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Marley Marl is a highly influential Queensbridge MC, Producer, and DJ. He has beefed with the likes of Boogie Down Productions, and worked with Big Daddy Kane, Biz Markie, fellow Queensbridge resident Roxanne Shante, Eric. B & Rakim, and many others.

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Many trouble youths will become violent for little to no reason. If you look at the wrong person the wrong you might just receive consequences you wouldn’t expect.

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The American system is a racist mechanism, that has been created to keep unprivileged minorities from staying in society because the system feels they are menaces when really they are just living in poverty and suffering which leads them to doing things the system finds unacceptable.

It’s system that really makes everyone deaf, dumb, and blind. Nobody acknowledges it, but really it’s system that breeds a lot of hate and inconsiderate feelings towards all fellow citizens of this country.

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A buster is a person who is basically a fake ass person, or poser. A more colorful way to put it would be a punk bitch. Someone who talks a lot of talk, fronts all the time and never does anything to contribute to anything.

On the other hand, Busta Rhymes is an East Coast rapper who was loosely affiliated with the Native Tongues family throughout the early to mid-90s

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Nas' realizing on karma’s effect on his life.

The irony – After a life of being a heart breaking player, treating women less than fairly, and tossing other men’s daughters out the window, you’re going to get yourself your own precious girl to have that done to her by guys just like you. Puts things in perspective, huh? Now isn’t life a bitch?

Kanye West has a similar line on We Major, which interestingly enough, featured Nas.

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Brooklyn is often referred to as Crooklyn because of it’s sketchy ways.

A film by Spike Lee was even made using the term as it’s title.

As well as a Q-Tip produced song of the same title for the film’s soundtrack.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Wq6nruoItjs

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