The Gatling gun is one of the best-known early rapid-fire spring loaded, hand cranked weapons and a forerunner of the modern machine gun. Invented by Richard Gatling, it is known for its use by the Union forces during the American Civil War in the 1860s, which was the first time it was employed in combat.
A young buck sellin' drugs and such, who never had much
Tryin' to get a clutch at what I could not— Wu-Tang Clan – C.R.E.A.M.
Tryin' to get a clutch at what I could not— Wu-Tang Clan – C.R.E.A.M.
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If you don’t respect Rae and the Clan, he and his Intratec TEC-DC9 semi-automatic handgun are going to get real mad.
The Intratec TEC-9 or TEC-DC9, is a blowback-operated semi-automatic pistol, chambered in 9×19mm Parabellum. It was designed by Intratec, an American offshoot of Interdynamic AB. The TEC-9 was made of inexpensive molded polymers and a mixture of stamped and milled steel parts which gave it the dubious distinction of being one of the most widely used “criminal” guns in the US. More than anything, the TEC-9 is known for its large magazine capacity and low price.
For any serious or professional shooter this gun is of little value – it’s too big and heavy to be carried comfortably, too unreliable when firing anything but FMJ ammunition, and has poor accuracy.
Thanks Wikipedia (and World Guns)
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Importing “keys” (kilos) of cocaine from abroad; he’s found more lucrative enterprise with his new business partners.
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Guns. The name derived from the Gatling gun, one of the earliest rapid-fire weapons in the history of warfare (1861).
Ironically, its inventor, Richard Gatling, thought that the “gat” would lead to fewer deaths by combat (he also never thought that his gun would be a slang rap term, so he wasn’t too good at predictions).
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More or less correct, this is from wikipedia:
“Gatling wrote that he created it to reduce the size of armies and so reduce the number of deaths by combat and disease, and to show how futile war is.”
You're an idiot
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C.R.E.A.M. is an acronym for “Cash Rules Everything Around Me” and has throughout the years become well-established slang for money.
Cream can also be slang for crack, but the Clan is strictly after that cash money. (And you should too, kids!)
Some also may see this line as a reflection on the fact that in their world that they’ve gone into they’re ruled by cash and nothing more. This line was used to underline how they’re unable to make choices based off emotion, goals or point of views yet they’re blinded by their pimp of capitalism.
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Continuing with the references including the number 3, Hova refers to two street games:
- Cee-lo is a popular ghetto dice game, referenced in many rap songs, including Nas' “N.Y. State of Mind”
- A play on 3-card Monte, the gambling hustle you see played in the blocks.
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It's crazy how you can go from bein' Joe Blow
To everybody on your dick; no homo JAY-Z (Ft. Kanye West & Rihanna) – Run This Town
To everybody on your dick; no homo JAY-Z (Ft. Kanye West & Rihanna) – Run This Town
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In Five Percent terminology, the Black Man is God and the Black Woman is Earth. Your Old Earth is Ma Dukes.
At the end of his wits, Inspectah sits down with her and has a “Great Awakening” to the joys of the Protestant Ethic.
What his mother explained to him is effectively
A statement credited to philosopher Friedrich Nietzsche from his book, Twilight of the Idols.
For Deck to succeed in life, he must “overcome the heartaches and pain” from the challenges he faces. Essentially – no pain, no gain.
Gotta disagree on the last bit, it’s not about pain for the sake of pain, but making your pain have meaning “working hard can help you maintain” to get up every morning, make your bed, go to work, come home and live. to have purpose in your life is very fulfilling
Deck first tries to escape his pain through the expedient manner of drug use, but then shortly realizes that it’s not enough to escape the suffering and doesn’t last. Responsibility is directly tied to your life’s meaning, working hard will generate enough meaning to counterbalance the suffering of his life, and will last longer than the high one would get from weed.
It means that where (in previous lines) he chose to smoke sess to escape the pains, a metaphor for many things we do to escape the pain that leads us nowhere good in the long run, he now learns that working hard which is decicating yourself to a matter for example making music, studies, simply working etc, may help to overcome these pains as well.
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whole earth maybe?
I interpret this as him looking to the way life used to be for humans, with of course the motif of the asian lifestyle/culture. Raekwon talks about how he moved to shaolin land in the first verse. Inspectah Deck while in shaolin land reflects on life today versus the ancestral ways of humans, comparing the luxuries we have to not having them, but sill being discontent. Asian people back then worked worked 10-12 hours a day in the fields everyday and they did it not only cuz they had to but wanted to. What made them overcome the heartaches and pain was being blessed with what they had and preparing the next generation to carry the same values
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It’s always seemed to me also like “earth” serves as another explanation of his using weed as an escape.