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Plagiarizing is the act of stealing someone else’s work and claiming it as your own. Biting is another term for copying/plagiarizing.

Julius calls other rappers liars and compares them to vampires who are mythical creatures that need to bite someone and drink their blood to stay alive. In the rapper’s version of the metaphor, they have to steal from/bite other artists just to make it by.

On a side note, according to Nas, No Idea’s Original and according to Ludacris, “Nothing’s been new since Big Daddy Kane”.

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Since the listen feature won’t show this, here’s the song.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IFTL6h0Cp00

Julius Luciano & Kenny Siegel of the Horseshoe G.A.N.G did a freestyle on Crooked I’s radio show, COB Radio.

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A different word for “Hello” is a “Hi” which is a homophone for “High”. So when Kenny says “High”, you know he’s not greeting you with a “Hi”.

If you’ve been listening to the Horseshoe G.A.N.G for a while, you’ll know how much Kenny loves to smoke.

https://twitter.com/HORSESHOEGANG/statuses/435256745170972672

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Even when Kenny was a kid, he used to rap while playing with his Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles action figures.

Donatello is one of the Ninja Turtles. All the turtles are green and wear different coloured masks. Donatello wears a purple mask.

Now that he’s grown up, he loves a different type of green & purple aka purple weed which is extremely potent marijuana.

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C.O.B. is Crooked I’s label and crew that he started with his biological brothers, the Horseshoe G.A.N.G.

Dice, Crook, Julius and me and D

He lists all his brothers and calls Demetrius, “D” to fit his rhyme scheme.

Crook has mentioned before what are the things C.O.B. stands for.

“Ssutt Ssutt” is a phrase to let people know they’re repping C.O.B.
https://twitter.com/CrookedIntriago/status/58246944904056832

Later on their label/crew got bigger and they added more artists to their roster like their cousin Sauce Tha Boss and other artists such as Iceman, Coniyac DA X.O, One-2, Ro, PWT, Big Pho, Karelezz, Tim West and new COB arrival, Niqle.

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