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Rappers brag about all the money they have and how they spend it. They also have songs that claim they are thugging and living a hood life. Those lives contradict each other. Jon claims that these rappers are just rapping about fake lives.

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He is as real as they come. The realest of the real. The word fake don’t exist to him unlike other rappers.

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Produced by Party Supplies (as is the case for the whole album), this song samples Dean Martin’s classic “Return To Me”. 10th song on Action Bronson’s Blue Chips.

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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uiAQ9xQQHeQ

at 1:22 Action Bronson shows us how he like to ride

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Signing something with a feather is used to sinature important documents such as the Declaration Of Independence. In Bronson’s case he’s getting signed by a major label

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Jose Canseco is a former MLB Player and Star who played from 1985-2001. At the end of his storied career, he co-authored the book “Juiced” where he admitted and accused numerous former teammates of using steroids. Or, snitching on fellow players. Fab will never be a snitch like Jose.

Also nice play on words “No way José” by itself is another way of saying absolutely not.

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He turned white (cocaine) into cream (the acronym for Cash Rules Everything Around Me originated by Wu-Tang Clan)

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Shouting out to all his homies that he would fight for
The exact line is also to be found in “My Homie” from the same album. This shows the distinction between Habits and Contradictions. Blessed represents the Contradiction to hood life. “Stay Blessed” instead of “stay violent”. Yet in “My Homie”, Q talks about the habitual gang life cycle of violence with bars filled with revenge and plotting.

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Many Detroit underground artists explaining how they spit fire

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There’s a (complicated) history of white Americans looking down on Americans of other ethnicities, especially blacks, from their seat of delusional racial or ethnic superiority.

The Antebellum slave era, the Jim Crow era, and the “Post-racial Era” have all had their white bigots.

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