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Steve Kuhn Quasimoto – Jazz Cats Pt. 1
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Steve Kuhn is an American jazz pianist and composer. In his early years, Kuhn was known as an avant-garde jazz pianist. His first full length release as a leading role was The Country and Western Sound of Jazz Pianos in 1963, on the label Dauntless.

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Both Stones Throw alum, Madlib (under the name Yesterday’s New Quintet) and Peanut Butter Wolf (the founder of Stones throw, alongside Charisma) covered Steve Kuhn’s most well known song “The Meaning of Love.”
“The Meaning of Love” also makes an appearance on Badbadnotgood’s Late night tales compilation who have been vocal about their love for underground hip hop – no doubt being influenced by Madlib’s jazz ventures.

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^yes its American artist Steve Kuhn

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[Verse 1: Method Man] Method Man (Ft. Raekwon) – Meth vs. Chef
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In an interview with Complex, Raekwon elaborated on “Meth vs. Chef” and how he actually thinks Method Man won the “battle”:

I feel [Method Man] won still though because his flow was just so, ‘Who lit that shit it was I, the chinky eye…’ I was just going at him with the machine gun, ‘I’m goin’ all-out kid no turnbacks…’ So to this day we still laugh about it and it’s still a mystery to us who really won, but in my eyes, I’ll give it to him.

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Cash rules everything around me Wu-Tang Clan – C.R.E.A.M.
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In an interview with Complex, Raekwon explained how the phrase “C.R.E.A.M.” was born and who had the idea:

Meth came up with the hook but our dude named Raider Ruckus, this was like Meth’s homeboy back then, like they was real close, he came up with the phrase ‘cash rules everything around me.’ So when he showed Meth what it was and was like, ‘Cash rules everything around me,’ Meth was like, ‘Word, you right!’ And turned it into a movie, and I came in later that day and heard it and co-signed it.

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Kids wanna ride the back, what kinda shit is that?
Nowadays niggas can't wait to hit the back
Let me stand in the front with the elderly
So those other cats won't raise hell with me Del the Funky Homosapien – The Wacky World of Rapid Transit
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People who sit at the back of the bus are seen as troublemakers, similar to students sitting at the back of the class where authority figures can’t see them.

The oddness of the kids going to the back of the bus happily refers to the infamous Rosa Parks incident. In which Rosa Parks refused to go to the “black part” of the bus and ended up in jail.

Weaker and elderly people tend to sit/stand near the front, partially to stay away from trouble and also because it’s easier to stay at the front rather than walk further back with the bus rocking back and forth. They will often stand at the front of the bus as opposed to finding seating further back and dealing with potentially unsavoury people.

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Not a big deal, but reducing that to “the Rosa Parks Incident” kinda makes it sound like it only happened to her.

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But when I tried to rhyme up at the Good Life
Yo I got dissed I couldn't buy no respect Dred Scott – Back in the Day
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The Good Life is a cafe where artists interested in lyrics can work on their crafts. Lots artists that are now respected in the hip-hop community went to the cafe, examples are Aceyalone, Abstract Rude, Kurupt, Busdriver, Ice Cube and the members of Jurassic 5.

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That's how I met Bilal, from the Bronx
He had more beats than house niggas got conks Dred Scott – Back in the Day
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The producer of “I See Ya Jay” was Bilal Bashir, who has worked with artists like Everlast, Ice-T, King Tee and Divine Styler. A “house nigga” is a slave, and a “conk” a hit, meaning that Bilal had more beats than slaves got beaten.

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Bill Duke, a well known deep brother
Hooked me with the soundtrack on Deep Cover Dred Scott – Back in the Day
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Bill Duke is the director for the movie Deep Cover – which spawned the rap classic of the same name – and Dred appeared on the credits of the soundtrack with a writing credit for the song “I See Ya Jay” by fellow rapper Ragtime.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YGqWa5O69Is

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That ain't just some shit I wrote
Man, that's natural fact, and not evolution
My mind game still evolving Big K.R.I.T. (Ft. Bun B) – Shine On
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The meaning of the last line, “Cuz it will take some change, for you to make some change”, is not made up. It just exist, it’s a product of existence and thus a natural fact. That is, unlike the evolution theory, which can’t quite be proved yet.

Note how Bun B then uses “evolving”. Although the evolution is not solved, his mind will continue evolving; mutating; improving.

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It’s “But my game” not “My mind game”

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What's a king without a crown ho?
What's a car without some sound ho?
What's a king without a crown ho? Big K.R.I.T. – King Without A Crown
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These lines are recycled from KRIT’s “King’s Blues,” a deep cut from his 2011 album Return of 4Eva. “King without a crown” is a testament to KRIT’s name and this eponymous mixtape.

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Till the motherfuckin' sun die
Till the motherfuckin' sun die
One time for Multi Big K.R.I.T. – Multi Till the Sun Die
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The concept of “Multi ‘till the motherfucking sun die” was first shown to the public in the intro on the KRIT song “Shine On”, which was the first song released off of King Remembered In Time.

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