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The Indy 5000 is a skiing hill in Alaska, but Del most likely meant the Indianapolis 500, an annual motorsport event held in Indiana.

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The Sega Genesis, or Mega Drive, is a game console released in the late 80’s. Best-selling games include the first two versions of Sonic the Hedgehog.

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Among with Del and Boogiemen (DJ Pooh, Rashad Coes and Bobby “Bobcat” Ervin) Ice Cube produced the IWMBGWH album. Aside from that, he also has some background vocals and writing credits on the album, apparently having written “Dr. Bombay” without Del.

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In the title I Wish My Brother George Was Here, George actually refers to musician George Clinton, known for his work with Parliament-Funkadelic and solo hits like “Atomic Dog”. Clinton is one of Del’s biggest influences on the album and has 3 writing credits on it for samples Del used.

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Dennis here takes the time to play with the earlier-mentioned “The Humpty Dance” hit.

I’m sick wit dis, straight gangsta mack
But sometimes I get ridiculous

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CM-PX is a member of the rap collective Hieroglyphics. He is the person on the far left in the image below. Click here for a tweet from Del that gives more info.

Kid Creole (not the be confused with the rapper) and The Coconuts are a Latin band that had three top ten hits in the UK from their 1982 album Tropical Gangsters. Del compares his and CM-PX’s chemistry to that of Kid Creole and the Coconuts.

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Flo-Jo is a nickname of Florence Griffith Joyner’s, a female track and field athlete often considered to have been the fastest woman in the world. She set world records for both the 100 and 200 meters in 1988 which still aren’t broken. She won three gold medals at the 1984 Summer Olympics.

The dodo is an extinct bird. Old school rappers are now extinct as the new school rappers fly ahead of them (like a fast sprinter).

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“Joe Shmoe” is simply a common fictional name and nobody in particular. Making the line something alike to “Might sound odd to the average person”.

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This is the official soundtrack to the 2002 semi-autobiographical movie 8 Mile, starring American rapper Eminem. The album was released under Shady Records, and spawned the hit single “Lose Yourself”. It also spawned a follow up soundtrack, More Music from 8 Mile, consisting of songs that appear in 8 Mile, that were released as singles during the film’s time setting of 1995. One of the songs was performed by 2Pac, who would be the subject of a documentary with a soundtrack produced by Eminem, who also produced a posthumous album by ‘Pac. The album also features four songs by the Wu-Tang Clan and its members, and two songs by Mobb Deep, who eventually signed to G-Unit Records, headed by Shady Records artist 50 Cent. Both albums were also made available in censored versions, removing most of the strong profanity and violent content.

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