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Whodini were one of the biggest rap acts of the early 80’s, with songs like their smash hit, “Freaks Come Out At Night.” You can’t blame Ace for wanting to be just as big.
The constant references to Whodini are because the DOOM beat Ace is using samples their track, “Friends.”
Young boys get, put on like Young Jeezy (YEAAAH) Masta Ace (Ft. Edo. G) – Little Young
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Due to connections, advertising, payola, etc., any rapper endorsed by a popular label will be able to succeed in the music industry despite whether they’re good or not.
This plays off Young Jeezy’s, “Put On.”
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Nod to the 2005 movie, Brokeback Mountain, about homosexual cowboys – he’s calling the rap game gay. Ace loves to criticize mainstream hip-hop.
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A “hat” is another term for a condom, because Punch doesn’t want to get a disease from any hoes. LL Cool J had an affinity for wearing his trademarked Kangol hat.
So you won't make a sack of money Masta Ace (Ft. Strick (EMC)) – Unfriendly Game
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The front (offensive) linemen in football are always the first ones to get any physical contact, thus take all the pain and all the rushers. Ace compares those kids who are trying to climb the drug-selling hierarchy to the linemen because they’re always the ones taking the fall for the higher-ups.
If the front line doesn’t hold up, then the whole situation could go awry, and your conglomerate will be left with nothing.
Got half the niggas in the NBA tryna fight me
I put down the ball, picked up the tech
I'm nice around mics like Ron Artest The Game – Tell Me When to Go (Remix)
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A reference to the infamous Malice at the Palace fight between NBA plays and fans; since Game is taking all these ballplayers women, they want to fight him like they did at the Pistons home court.
A tech means technical foul, many of them were handed out at the brawl, but Game is referring to his Tec-9 – it’s no longer a game, it’s real shit.
Though the last line is a bit ambiguous, it could be interpreted as Game wrecking mics like Ron wrecked a fan at the game (usage of ‘nice’ is ironic).
Tell me when to go, tell me when to go
Tell me when to go, tell me when to go
Dumb, dumb, dumb, d-d-dumb
Dumb, dumb, dumb, d-d-dumb
[Verse 1 - E-40]
This burgundy colored slushie got me feelin' like the man of steel
Extreme Hyphy energy drink, spinning steering wheel
Mardi Gras beads around my neck, invisible set
Pull outs, diamonds in my mouth
Rally stripes, hustle cars, vans and campers
My dude got handlebars, get out your cameras
Wet the tar down, break out the crates
We on the soil ice skatin' doin Figure 8s
King of slang, they call me E-Bonics
I get stupid and dumb like Just Ice and Mantronix
Hear me out
The first mothafucka to even speak about a drought
40 a fool, I hear he growin' out his hair
You swear? Yeah he's takin' it there
This party music, get used to it
The Hyphy movement
[Hook]
[Verse 2 - Kanye West]
Ay, pimp it's Ye, pimp
40 told me they fuck with me in the Bay, pimp
So I'mma ride down with the do's open
Yeah that's the way to get the hoes open
Yeah, high inch stilettos with the toes open
And any haters get they nose broken
Now tell me when to go, tell me where the hoes
She told me they was cold now you act like you don't know
Like "ummmm, ummmm", I'mma hit the liquor store
I'mma be on the low, I'mma have my hoodie on
If you call out my name then you know they gon' go
Dumb, you fuckin' up my mode, man
I told you only call me by my codename
They already recognize me from my gold chain
The same one I gave Keyshia Cole, man
Now go dumb like Cole on Martin, I'm retarded
[Hook]
[Verse 3 - Ice Cube]
Tell me when to go, niggas get silly
Ice Cube on the mic, 5150
Nothin' but a fool, y'all know who with me
A West Coast nigga name E-4 liquor
We can drink malt liquor till the party get thicker
Then I get sicker and go gorilla
Rollin' through the Bay, doors open, man
Freaks on the sidewalk, hopin', man
That they can jump in, get a little somethin'
Yell Geronimo, bitch cause I gotta go
Burn rubber, leave it in the streets
Leave it to them dope ass Lil Jon beats
To make you go bezerk till it hurts
Put in work, if you scared; go to church
Shake them dreads, nigga fuck them feds
I'm with E-4-O, tell me when to go The Game – Tell Me When to Go (Remix)
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Two seater deuces, peeling like I skip town 2 Chainz (Ft. Jeezy & Pusha T) – Kitchen
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