Was young, never saw me wild, clutch Robert Horry style Joe Budden – Hiatus
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Never answer when it's private, man, I hate a shy chick
Don't you hate a shy chick? I had a plate of shy chick
And she ain't shy no mo', she changed her name to "My chick"
Yeah, boy, that's my girl Lil Wayne (Ft. Cory Gunz) – A Milli (Mixtape Version)
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With the exception of a few vulgar words, this part of the verse is identical to the album version of “A Milli”.
A.K.A. Young Arm & Hammer
In the kitchen with the pots, yeah I work the glass DJ Khaled (Ft. Dre, Fat Joe, Jeezy, Juelz Santana, Lil Wayne & Rick Ross) – Brown Paper Bag
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Pyrex is a company that sells no-stick glass products, which is ideal for people who want to cook crack.
Arm & Hammer is one of more well-known brands of baking soda (the primary ingredient to make crack).
I don’t know the recipe; I’m just sayin'…
-Katt Williams
Y'all knows how it goes, B, and so I creep JAY-Z (Ft. Foxy Brown) – Ain't No Nigga
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- If you shoot someone in the head then you don’t have to worry about shooting them anywhere else, because the rest of their body will fall
- If you kill the head of an organization, the subordinates fall as well
- If you kill the head of your rival crew his former followers will fall in line
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Ms. Shakur became a crack addict in the late 1980’s while Tupac was growing up. In her own words, it drove her down to what she calls “the pit of the garbage can, underneath the corroded bottom of the garbage can, where only the maggots live.”
Nevertheless, regardless of all the hardships she and her family faced, Tupac loved her unconditionally.
2Pac’s mother reacted by saying this:
Using rhyme, 2Pac connects two unlikely images, moving beyond simply humanizing his mother to exalting her as only a son could.
Side Note: Shock G famously referenced this line when talking about how he “rhymed from the pit of his stomach.”
When things went wrong we'd blame Mama 2Pac – Dear Mama
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With their mother being the prominent figure in their lives, both he and his sister pointed the finger to the one person who was there for them the most… and the person with the most familial/financial/social responsibilities to uphold.
Think back to one of his lines on “Keep Ya Head Up”:
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It’s good to know that L-Boogie doesn’t discriminate; when she says she’s the best, she means everyone. Also a reference to the last paragraph in Martin Luther King, Jr’s famous “I Have a Dream” speech:
And when this happens, when we allow freedom to ring, when we let it ring from every village and every hamlet, from every state and every city, we will be able to speed up that day when all of God’s children, black men and white men, Jews and Gentiles, Protestants and Catholics, will be able to join hands and sing in the words of the old Negro spiritual, “Free at last! free at last! thank God Almighty, we are free at last!”
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Kanye loves young, college girls, but they’ve got to be at least minimum age of consent.
This song was released in 2009, so any girl born in 1988 was of drinking age when this song was released, allowing Kanye to avoid any R. Kelly type predicaments.
(We’re looking out for the fam: don’t have sex with people who are underage. Let AgeofConsent.com be your friend.)
This line is also a reference to the 2006 comedy movie Superbad, in which the character of Jared Fogell is asked by the police “How old are you” to which he replies “old enough”