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He’s most likely referring to when drug dealers or gangs of people come into a town they are unfamiliar with, but act like they are the real thugs of the city when in reality they are a shook (scared). Inspectah Deck and the rest of Wu-Tang Clan have in fact sold drugs and stroll leisurely through the rough streets of Shaolin like they do all the time. Pusha T said a line similar to this

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Kane is no joke, as the great Rakim would say. He is also stating his dominance by clarifying that his name is “Big Daddy Kane”, definitely not little

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After years of coming up in the rap(drug) game with his girl by his side, they finally came to a point where they see themselves in villa suites.

Rapper Trademark Da Skydiver has something in common with Pusha and his girl.

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Cyhi and his crew’s favorite things include committing robberies with pistols, strippers from the strip club Follies, bricks from his plug, very expensive exotic cars and old school Chevy’s and Caddilac’s. I guess you can say his interest list is a little different from the regular person.

This hook is also taken from a song titled “These Are A Few of My Favorite Things”, from the 1965 movie “The Sound of Music”

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Your whole family is full of lowlifes. Your father is a crack addict and your wife’s elbows are ashy. Your baby-momma is also a drug addict, and you are having sex with infected bitches who use broken Trojans, which is a type of condoms.

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Sadly, some people in Harlem, will just shoot someone sometimes because that’s all they knew how to do growing up; T.I. mentions the same thing in one of his songs:

Usually niggas don’t know what to do when their back against the wall so they just start shootin'
For red or for blue or for blo I guess

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Here, Rakim proves why he is one of the best.

Nicotine withdrawals refers to when people who smoke cigarettes on a daily basis don’t smoke for a week, a few days or even one day for some serious fiends. He uses this intense metaphor to show his craving, but instead of fiending for cigarettes, he fiends for mic’s. Don’t think he’s joking either, because he’s clearly no joke

Do you think this guy is one to joke around?

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He promises to God he will never have anyone take his crown,have more skill than him in the rap game,while he is still around

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Double entendre;

  1. Estrogen refers to the rest of the rap game being a bunch of girls.

  2. Estrogen also ties in with the following line
    And all the money we got
    Concluding while other rappers are all bitches, Raekwon has real ladies with him.

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Renegades (himself and Jr.Gong) will peel you back, another way of saying they’re going to shoot you.

A very clever (and gangster) double image comes to mind of Nas peeling back and counting his hundereds while he caps some dude in the back too. Slick.

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