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And if you want beef, then bring the ruckus
Wu-Tang Clan ain’t nuttin ta fuck with

In the Wu earlier days, the Clan used to fight in a lot of their shows. RZA said in the Wu-Tang manual that ghost could take on 5 men alone, which got him the alias Ironman. Also, Ghost brang a lot of “ruckus” to some Wu-haters. One example: he broke Mase’s jaw.

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Snake eyes is a term used to describe the eyes of someone who is shady and cannot be trusted.

Snake eyes can also refer to the worst roll in a crap game,

Deck plays on these words to convey that his eyes are so beady and he is so deceitful, that even without any other “crap,” his motivation is already obvious

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Ghostface’s hometown

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Hollow bullets in the Ruger pistol.

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The narrator is extremely disturbed at this point. More tapping after he just checked (to find nothing or no one there) would be extremely nerve racking.

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Ask not what your country can do for you – ask what you can do for your country"
-John F. Kennedy, Inaugural Address

“…government of the people, by the people, for the people…”
-Abraham Lincoln, Gettysburg Address

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Latin for “Rest in Peace”
Pace literally means peace, and I believe “Requie-” always has to do with death (like Requiem, which means Mass for the Dead)

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The poem is set up with the use of multiple paradoxes. Boats, fish, and men perform actions that could only occur in a parallel universe, and not in the one we are familiar with. These paradoxes are meant to define the world in which a particular someone loves the author of the poem. Therefore, it is suggested that only in a parallel universe will the author’s love be requited, and that it is not something that will ever happen in the world he lives in.

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Here Biggie uses a simile to compare the ease and frequency he drops bars to the ease and frequency a pigeon relieves itself.

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