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This is a play on words on the labels he’s signed to, Shady Records and Aftermath Entertainment. These labels are known to have a good relationship with 50 and G-Unit.

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This song was made to sway young teens in the LA area from joining a gang. That’s why NWA, Ice-T, and the like are on this song to prevent them in doing so.

Also check out the similarly themed supergroup track “Self Destruction” from a year earlier!

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Baby D was a member of West Coast female rap trio J.J. Fad. Doom samples their record “Supersonic” for this song.

J.J. Fad were one of the groups featured on the 1990 anti-gang violence posse cut “We’re All in the Same Gang”, along with N.W.A, Ice-T, King Tee and MC Hammer.

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Jadakiss states on the Juan Epstein podcast that he means a “Kiss of Death.”

(The reason he used the word french was to rhyme with “senseless”)

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Sample of “Scenario” by A Tribe Called Quest featuring Leaders of the New School with a young Busta Rhymes.

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Weezy’s sayin he’s a drug dealer/gangsta from Hollygrove, in the 17th Ward of New Orleans.

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He feels empty and knows he’s either going back inside, or will die. He feels like he doesn’t deserve this tough life because he’s just living and got stuck in the ghetto.

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He doesn’t have that many clothes so he don’t sleep in them. He can’t get a job because of jail, so he starts robbing people. Even goinng low enough to take from the homeless.

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He’s out of jail and hopes he can stay out but times are getting hard again.

A “beast” is slang for a cop car. KRS-ONE uses the word in Sound of da Police.

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The violence rate is high in jail, after age 16 you’ll be put in a real jail with grown mens and not a young offenders prison any longer. In a prison full with men, do they usually find each other attractive, since they have been locked up for years. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RswELAOjJhU

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