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All my pockets best friends with dead presidents, nigga XXL (Ft. Danny Brown, Future, Hopsin, ​mgk & Roscoe Dash) – XXL Freshmen 2012 Cypher - Part 1
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The term ‘dead presidents’ refers to American paper currency which pictures of past dead presidents are present on.

Roscoe personifies his pockets as best friends with these ‘Dead Presidents’ for a metaphor meaning that he always has cash on him, in his pockets.

‘Dead presidents’ is a term first used by Rakim on the song “Paid in Full”:

Thinkin', “How could I get some dead presidents?”
I need money, I used to be a stick-up kid

Nas also used this term on his song “The World is Yours”, although it wasn’t made popular until Jay-Z had sampled Nas for his chorus on “Dead Presidents”:

I’m out for presidents to represent me (Get money!)
I’m out for presidents to represent me (Get money!)
I’m out for presidents to represent me (Get money!)
I’m out for dead fuckin presidents to represent me (Whose…)
I’m out for presidents to represent me (Get money!)
I’m out for presidents to represent me (Get money!)
I’m out for presidents to represent me (Get money!)
I’m out for dead fuckin presidents to represent me (Whose…)

But that’s a whole ‘nother story.

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Eazy-E were ya ever caught slippin'?
Hell no! Sublime – Smoke Two Joints
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Sublime uses a sample from one of their many rap inspirations, Eazy-E. The sample is from the song No More ?’s on his debut album Eazy-Duz-It.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4aqIIkbEcXE

The song centers around an interviewer asking Eazy many questions about his past life.

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Toke a big spliff of some good sinsemilla Sublime – Smoke Two Joints
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A sample used from rapper Just-Ice’s song Na Touch Da Just.

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

Sinsemillia is marijuana without seeds in it. The best stuff. In Spanish, “sin” means ‘without’ and “semilla” means ‘seeds’. It’s slang for good weed. No seeds and no stems, just herb.

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Smoke cigarettes 'til the day she dies! Sublime – Smoke Two Joints
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A sample used from The Ziggens song “Outside”.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hyBZ546iWug

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Also a reference to the popular advice that cigarettes are worse on your lungs than weed. It’s a joke that ofc she smoked them till she… DIED!

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"Hey bro, you're fucking awesome!" Hopsin – Hop Madness
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Hopsin is using a white-sounding voice, just like in Ill Mind of Hopsin 4, to show that now that he has quite a big buzz. A lot of his fans are white as well. .

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the line is said by the fat guy in the music video, it doesn’t sound like hopsin said this line.

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these couple words were used by someone else, it wasn’t hopsin doing an impression

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Red with blood like Gogo Yubari ​eLZhi – The Genesis
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Elzhi is referencing a scene from the movie Kill Bill: Volume 1. In the film the primary antagonist, The Bride (aka Black Mamba), is looking for revenge against a character named O-Ren Ishii. She tracks her down to a night club and end’s up having to fight O-Ren’s whole army and personal body guard, Gogo Yubari. The Bride and Yubari battle, with the Bride leaving her looking like this:

The whole scene

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She was living in a single room with three other individuals. One of them was a male and the other two, well, the other two were females. God only knows what they were up to in there. And furthermore, Susan, I wouldn't be the least bit surprised to learn that all four of them habitually smoke marijuana cigarettes... Reefers Sublime – Smoke Two Joints
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This sample is from the 1970 cult classic Beyond the Valley of the Dolls co-written by none other than Roger Ebert! Here’s the original scene:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Br1uAIosa4c

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Everyone who downvoted macmikes comment can’t do basic math

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“She was living in a single room with three other individuals”. She is one and then there were three others, totaling four

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I'm rollin
Car not stolen
Probably never will be it's much to old and
Smokin weed and feelin fine
In my Lacville 79 Devin The Dude – Lacville 79
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Devin doesn’t care if his ride isn’t the nicest, cause it just means no one is going to steal it. As long as his Lacville is drivin' and he can get from one place to another (maybe an L or two would be nice too) he’s happy.

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Hoes be trippin on Devin, Devin don't be trippin on hoes Devin The Dude – Lacville 79
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Devin doesn’t catch feelings for some stupid hoes. Unlike some people..

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Singing folk songs, but not no "Kumbaya my Lord" Devin The Dude (Ft. André 3000 & Snoop Dogg) – What a Job
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Kumbaya is an old folk song that many people sing while camping (a reference to the previous line). Mr.3000 is saying that they sing and make rap music around their computer and equipment like singing folk songs around a campfire.

Also, folk songs usually represent a certain aspect of a culture or the culture as a whole. Andres ‘folk songs’ are representations of hip-hop.

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This may be totally unrelated, but folk, or “foke,” is a slang term commonly used in Atlanta.

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