So I wouldn't have to shed tears or wake up in cold sweats The Game – Never Be Friends
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As Game is reading the obituary he is wishing he never met his brother, So he wouldn’t have to go through this pain of losing him.
Game is reading Billboard’s obituary, his best friend since he was little. Billboard was recently in prison and was released before The Documentary in dropped, but was gunned down in California in 2005 by a rival gang.
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‘Cause I'm like the Wizard, and you look lost like Dorothy Gang Starr – You Know My Steez
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This is a reference to the movie The Wizard of Oz, based on the book The Wonderful Wizard of Oz written by L. Frank Baum.
In it, the main character, Dorothy, is lost in a fictional land and seeking advice from the Wizard, who is the leader or “authority” of Oz.
Guru compares the Wizard’s authority and significance to his own in Hip Hop. Dorothy seeks the Wizard because he’s the only one who can tell and show her how to get home; in the same way Guru is showing all the “clones” and “knuckleheads” the way out of Hip Hop because of how out of their depth they are. The fact he decides how long these fake MCs and DJs last is an indication of just how much authority he has: in an instant, he can kick them out.
