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Queensfinest is off DJ Clue?’s debut studio album The Professional released on December 15, 1998.

Rolling Stone (2/18/99, p. 58) says – “THE PROFESSIONAL comes off like a greatest-hits collection, except that these ‘hits’ haven’t been released before.”

The song is identical to it’s given title, Queens finest. Hip-hop’s giant Nasty Nas once again proves why he is one of the few who put Queensbridge on the map. With his hardcore bars and braggadocious style, he can take listeners through various hoods around his native borough, Queensbridge.

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If you’ve just reached or past the age of becoming an adult, and haven’t been able to hold down a steady money flow,(in other words a J.O.B) you’re most likely a lost cause running around like a stray dog. That’s some sloppy shit, step your life up.

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Young Boy Penalties is the second track off his latest project, Lost Jewlry (2013). The mafioso pioneer returns to the surface once again to proves his worthy as an legendary lyricist.

Raekwon is addressing all the lost youth of today’s generation on this track. In hopes to teach them the right path to take. When will they learn?

Produced by Scram Jones

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Detective Jones is getting all worked up searching for clues on where lady Hip-Hop could be, she’s the one who got away with the real money. He even envisioned how she would look according to the description they read in the paper.

In other words, Nas is experiences nostalgia while talking about the golden era Hip-Hop, because today’s era of Hip-Hop is lost/dead. He thought the art form would progress by now.

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Betcha Don’t Know off of AZ’s second studio album, entitled Pieces of Man released in April 7, 1998.

Sample Used:“Betcha Don’t Know” by Najee

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Living the life!

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Usually the Maybachs are the cars that a rapper dreams of, he already said that and his boy Kanye did aswell.

Jay even used a “tuned” version of a Maybach for his Otis video later in his career.

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Relating to the previous line. Nas celebrates by smoking a blunt after having almost being killed, taking it as an gift from God since it wasn’t his time to die.

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