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PYT is an acronym for “pretty young thing”, made famous by Micheal Jackson.

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There have been a number of stories detailing how the U.S. government’s Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) has supplied crack cocaine to drug dealers such as L.A.’s “Freeway” Ricky Ross to distribute in urban areas. This led to a crack epidemic in the 1980s, destroying communities and families within the inner city. Big Boi then mentions how people claim this is just a “conspiracy theory” to suggest the U.S. government wouldn’t do something like that to its own citizens but Big Boi isn’t buying that counterargument.

Rapper Snoop Dogg also gives his take on this situation:

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The powers that be don’t have to use direct or brute force against a populace anymore, because they have more effective means for controlling people; the media.

Ritalin (methylphenidate) is a central nervous system stimulant. It affects chemicals in the brain and nerves that contribute to hyperactivity and impulse control. In other words, it dumbs you down to a state of complacency.

It can be argued that TV does this with it’s programs, commercials and overall propaganda techniques to get people to think in alignment with the establishment and it’s goals and desires rather than one’s own. This is described better in this video:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HFvT_qEZJf8

Distracted by “reality” shows, award shows, talent shows, sports events, “news” reports, etc, we forget how significant social injustice is, how atrocious and harmful it is and how frequently it occurs. It makes us apathetic and complacent just like Ritalin does.

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Major labels weren’t really interested in southern artists for a long time. They didn’t think they could make any money and therefore didn’t take the south seriously. Instead, Koopa feels like they just patronized them or were disingenuous in their promises.

Until the south blew up!

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Girls who go through a lot of trouble to be beautiful are often the ones with a lot of problems with their self esteem, problems at home, etc. It’s like a twist on what Kanye said in All Falls Down:

It seems we living the American dream
But the people highest up got the lowest self-esteem

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Cory Gunz is here so where is his money? He is repeating it for emphasis.

By saying Euros, he indicates that he’s not just getting money, he is in Europe gettin' that international money.

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This is sampled from a song by The Alan Parsons Project of the same name. While what The Alan Parsons Project meaning of the song and hook is, is debatable (see comments in link), it is pretty clear what context it is being used in, here; a surveillance/police state.

The ‘eye in the sky’ is a reference to satellite surveillance, drones (unmanned aircraft equipped with similar if not better capabilities for spying and prying into the general public’s lives) and surveillance in general in, so thickly layered in today’s society.

He could also be talking about the Illuminati’s use of the all-seeing eye.

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In the Greek alphabet, ‘Alpha’ is the first letter and ‘omega’ the last. It is used in the Bible to symbolize God’s eternal life.

I am Alpha and Omega, the beginning and the ending, saith the Lord, which is, and which was, and which is to come, the Almighty.

Revelation 1:8

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Using Bob Marley as a metaphor for Marijuana, he continues the ‘on the green’ golf reference, meaning he smokes weed on the golf course.

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A reference to the famously leaning Tower of Pisa.

E-40 once said something of similar fashion on “All My Niggaz”:

Leaning like the Tower of Pisa, Promethazina

The use of “leaning” here is a reference to being high on codeine.

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