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Gift of Gab the verbal scholar (more like professor) will make you scream when you get hurt by his rhymes.

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This picture pretty much sums up this line:

An Impala is a cool brand of car by the way.

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He’s riding shotgun in an Impala, “doing Gotti” referring to the infamous Gambino mobster boss John Gotti who’s M.O. was to murder people with a shotgun, so he’s doing some dirty work. And he’s looking spiffy and fly while doing it.

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Gab reminiscences about the times in the 70’s,80’s, and 90’s when many African-Americans wore African medallions and pendants as a symbol of their heritage and to remember where they came from.

Instead now days young kids want to wear this kind of stuff that promotes a different, pedantic type of lifestyle and way of thinking.

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Gab retorts from the guy’s line by saying that he obviously has been misled by his musical choices and that people do want to hear what Gab has to rhyme.

This line is incredibly great because of it’s foresight. Gab knows that people in the rap scene are used to a different, more hard, mean mugging, style of rap but he looks to change that because that isn’t the road to go down and only makes for a shallow, listen and throw away kind of music.

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Here Ozzy is invoking the imagery of a airplane pilot taking off to convey that he had a weird feeling to change things in his life because things didn’t feel right. Then he was unsure of himself and started to regret even changing those things and waiting for things to get better.

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Johnson’s Baby Powder to keep himself fresh and Davidoff Cool Water cologne to make him smell good before he steps out.

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Beardo is getting older and society expects him to get a wife. But Beardo sees this as pointless and just a needless expectation placed upon him and decides to just focus on having fun and getting messed up, because enjoyment is really what matters.

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When sawing off a shotgun barrel to make it more powerful for close quarters shooting, there is a federal legal limit of so many inches to ensure that it is a legal weapon.

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Atomic bombs when they drop and activate, give off an intense glare many times brighter than the sun. Due to thermal, infrared, and ultraviolet radiation this glare can burn the retinas in the human eye, form cataracts on the eyes and cause people to go blind. Durst’s rhymes are atomic and can so powerful they’ll make you go blind.

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