So heavy that it's tearing what you're wearing GZA – Did Ya Say That?
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Firstly, a nice reference to the famous song, “Raindrops keep falling on my head” by B. J. Thomas. The song is about overcoming adversity and keeping a smile on your face. GZA twists this up.
He removes the positivity from the line. He asserts that the raindrops (i.e negative times, thoughts or events) are wearing you down and crushing your spirit and/or have soaked your clothes to the point that they can no longer hold the weight the water has added to them.
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Criminals who know the way help the others commit crimes. The use of bats as a metaphor shows that these folks have different powers to the ordinary criminals. Bats use echolocation to track their prey. Similarly, these criminals have hi-tech means to show the way.
It was crashed by the crocs who came years later GZA – Animal Planet
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Alex Haley was an American author of Roots who later co-wrote the autobiography of Malcolm X. It was later turned into a TV miniseries.
Say, “Why did you bring him in here for? He ain't the guy!” Bob Dylan – Hurricane
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This is a reference to James J. Corbett, the ‘Father of Modern Boxing,’ who was a fighter in the days when boxing was outlawed.
Ruben Carter is not a “Gentleman” like Jim because Carter is black, thus Dylan is portraying these policemen as racist.
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After his release from prison, Carter received an honorary World Champion title in 1993. Since then, he has traveled the world to take part in various “innocence” projects. He headed the Association in Defense of the Wrongly Convicted for 12 years and founded Innocence International in 2004.
Here is a link to an interview with the Hurricane himself.
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