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Maybach was a European luxury car manufacturer. A Maybach car costs a lot of money.
But he is saying he deserves much more than only that, he deserves to be on a private ship, a way more expensive, bigger, larger, more beautiful… vehicle than a Maybach.
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Andre Agassi is a famous American retired professional tennis player. In 1996, Agassi shaved his balding head, breaking with his old “image is everything” style.
Nacho Picasso has a bald head as well, that’s why he always wears his hat.
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Fat Joe released his debut album “Represent” including this song in 1993, when he was still a little-known Hip Hop artist.
He’s saying the album would be such a big hit, and everybody would know about him and his music after the release of the album.
This song actually peaked at the Billboard 100 by late 1993.
And some Hip-Hop heads usually consider the debut album one of his greatest projects.
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A reference to “Youngest in Charge” (1989), the renowned debut album from the then-16-year-old Brooklynite Hip Hop artist Special Ed
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A.C. Chill (1969 – 2005) was an original member of K-Rino’s Hip Hop group South Park Coalition. He suffered an aneurysm in his brain and after being in a coma for two weeks, he had a heart attack which took away his life in 2005. He was also supposed to be one of K-Rino’s best friends, so this song is dedicated to him.
Rest in peace…
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When this song was released, Street Light had just won the 2013 “Don’t Fu[$]k Up Our Beats” Rap contest hosted by Funk Volume, the same contest he had lost the last year.
When he’d lost the 2012 contest, he vowed not to enter the next year, he even quit rapping. After humbling himself, and realizing that it was himself that needed to progress, he got his act together. That was “The return of Street Light”, his rap skills was improved a lot, and then he decided to enter the 2013 contest and won successfully.
But there are still so many things that he has to go through in the future. But whatever will happen, he’ll be still taking over.
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He is quoting a classic line by legendary rapper AZ on an all-time classic Hip Hop track called “Life’s a Bitch” by Nas:
Life’s a bitch and then you die
It means, lots of people go through many hardships in life, sometimes it may seem as if people just live a hard life with no rewards and then die unhappily.
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“Doo-doo” is slang for “feces”.
Here is Thai weed, what Defari smokes.
They look soft of like feces, right?
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K-Rino’s debut album, “Stories from the Black Book” (1993), which includes this song, was supposed to be all produced by himself and co-produced by his fellow Dope-E
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A Hennessy fifth is the fifth of a gallon or 750 ml of Hennessy, a world-leading cognac house with headquarters in Cognac, France.
A regular blunt (marijuana cigarette) is often not really long, it’s way too short for Defari. So he wish it were longer than a fifth of Hennessy, kind of like this:
(Hope this is enough for him)
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