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These Flavor Flav vocals are from the mostly instrumental Public Enemy song “Terminator X Speaks With His Hands” from the Yo! Bum Rush the Show album.

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These scratched in vocals come from LL’s hit song “Rock the Bells”. Bells are the two turntables one uses while DJing.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_detailpage&v=WeCxxjKwHbw#t=9s

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This vocal sample is from the intro of MC Lyte’s “Lyte as Rock” where King of Chill starts the song off with explaining how he considers “Lyte as a Rock” a simile.

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De La Slow is a slow jam version of De La Soul, which is fitting, seeing how this track samples the classic instrumental slow jam “In All My Wildest Dreams” by Joe Sample. The song was also sampled in the other WRMS skit and infamously in 2Pac’s “Dear Mama
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De La Slow is a slow jam version of De La Soul, which is fitting, seeing how the track samples the classic instrumental slow jam “In All My Wildest Dreams” by Joe Sample. The song was also sampled in the other WRMS skit and infamously in 2Pac’s “Dear Mama
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dwGgwrcfOwQ

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The new seeds growing out into the new breed are Native Tongues. Together they’ll all feed the greed for dope music the listeners have since they’re doper than the rest.

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Labels commonly sign artists who would produce one to a number of hits and then move out of the spotlight. (When people still bought singles) these of course brought in a lot of money. And when people lost their spotlight… they’d simply get dropped from the label.

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Green is an abnormal blood colour and famously the colour of money. In this case red blood is for the ones who stay true to themselves and the music, while green is for those who sell-out and therefore not real people.

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Grandpa Bam is a nickname for hip-hop originator Afrika Bambaataa from the Zulu Nation. The thing he saw and Pos means is the raw, pure form of hip-hop, and not the watered-down RnB version, fitting with the concept of the whole verse.

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The “flower” signifying the De La Soul daisy, intertwined with the “vine” out of the Jungle Brothers jungle.

Note the pronunciation of the word “rose” as “raw”, referring to quality and hippy-hoppyness of the music.

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