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Reference to Officer Dibble, a character from the 60s cartoon Top Cat

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Reference to R. Kelly’s song, from the Space Jam soundtrack
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=16FdJrrAWSo

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Major League Baseball teams rely on pitching rotations. A song getting a lot of spins on radio is said to be in “heavy rotation.” Com is saying that he’s a force in the culture and industry of hip-hop, even without a pop single.

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Although Common’s a Christian, this is Five-Percenter (Nation of Islam) ideology which states that black men were the original human men and thereby gods of the earth.

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In the 1993 biopic movie What’s Love Got to Do With it about singer and actress Tina Turner, she gets raped by her then-husband Ike Turner. Tech will rape you these other MC’s the same way Tina Turner was raped.

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In Islam, Shaytan represents the devil. So if you wanna play the devil and try to confront Tech, then he has no problem with it because he’s very dangerous and fires missiles at other MC’s.

This is a reference to the September 11, 2001 incident where a Flight 77 crashed into the Pentagon causing damage to the building that was later repaired. It was just one of the four hijacked flights that day.

Obviously, Tech believes that 9/11 was an inside job planned by the government, since he says he “fires missiles.”

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Andres Bonifacio was a Filipino revolutionary and nationalist. He is revered as a national hero by Filipinos even though he was a full-blooded Spaniard.

Although Sick Jacken and Immortal Technique are not ethnically related to Chino, they’re his dawgs by a similar cause.

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Wordplay with the word “arm.”

  • Chino arms himself with guns so he can kill MC’s.
  • A war veteran would arm himself — get a prosthetic arm.

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He could flow longer than a lot of rappers. He showcases it pretty much on every track but just check this one out. Only a handful of rappers can compete with that.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vVHha_lwHdo

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