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357 Ruste Juxx (Ft. Sean Price) – Fuckin Wit A Gangster
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Know the sound, know the score well enough to quote it now
Used to what they used to, see them pointing the composer out
Suitor of the suitors, double breasted, money folded down
Rooted where the root is, found an exit they can go around Skyzoo – How To Make It Through Hysteria
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This entire section highlights the same theme. That Skyzoo has been working really hard to master his craft. He knows every note in his music by heart. He has grind-ed for so long that he has firmly placed himself at the heart of Hip Hop where the “root is.”

“Suitor of the Suitors” This line actually has three possible explanations:

  1. He sets up his friends on dates. Being the proxy suitor for them.

  2. Suitor can mean petitioner or plaintiff. Essentially he truly holds the cause of the cause-holders being the real energy behind their goals.

  3. A person who seeks to buy a business. Skyzoo buys businesses for his benefit and others. With the following words “double breasted, money folded down” this is the most likely explanation.

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  1. A suitor is one who makes suits, its another word for tailor. He’s the tailor’s tailor. A pro’s pro. Or perhaps its his way of slying coping to ghostwriting for other rappers. Either way, he clearly is playing with lots of clothing metaphors in this verse: “double breasted,” “1,000 thread count” “freshend up the linen.”
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I'm just talking shit, but yo when the last time you talk to Swizz?

A long time ago Cassidy – Me, Myself & iPhone
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Swizz Beatz who produced many of Cassidy’s key songs like “I\m a Hustla”, “Hotel”, and “My drink n my 2 step.” He has not worked on a studio album with Swizz since “B.A.R.S The Barry Adrian Reese Story” in 2007.

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Death before dishonor Vinnie Paz – The Oracle
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Referencing Big Pun “Whatcha Gonna do”.

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May refer to the hardcore punk band, “Death Before Dishonor”. Vinnie Paz is an avid listener of the hardcore rock / punk rock scene and based some of his songs on the certain genre. In his other music videos, Vinnie is seen with clothing saying “Trapped Under Ice”, “Terror”, or “Keepers of the Faith” confirming his support of the hardcore rock / punk rock scene.

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And 800 other rappers.

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Who we with, bros with hammers and they like too legit Vinnie Paz – The Oracle
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Vinnie hangs around real niggas with their guns tucked at all times

This is also a reference to MC Hammer’s single “2 Legit 2 Quit.”

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I’m a, deadbeat dad: I son bastards Crooked I (Ft. Horseshoe G.A.N.G) – Drum Murder
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In a battle rap the winner is said to have made a son out of the loser. Here Capone claims to have won so many rap battles that he became like a “deadbeat dad” to the “children” he’s beaten lyrically.

Also, if you aren’t married, or if you did not want a kid, that child is considered a “bastard” child. He clearly didn’t want to “son” all the losers, thus making them bastards.

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A smooth lover wonder what was under covers
When I woke, all my CDs was gone, she left the covers Blu (Ft. Mela Machinko) – Kiss the Sky
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A commentary on the state of Hip Hop. Here he talks about Hip Hop being a “smooth Lover” putting him in a blissful daze, but the surge of hollow hip hop (covers without the CD) forced him to wake up.

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Venomous with the vixens, vital for idle vagges Blu (Ft. Mela Machinko) – Kiss the Sky
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He’s a real hit with the ladies. Hell he’s essential for all the prudes with their “Idle vagges.”

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And raps that make you bask, but don't gotta master Blu (Ft. Mela Machinko) – Kiss the Sky
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Blu spits the kind of raps that are thoughtful making people “Bask” in the lyrics. No rapper can claim to be a complete master of rap.

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Busy as a beaver ‘cause I’m in the damn building Crooked I – Talkin' to Myself
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Constantly in the studio working like how a beaver will work on his dam. The line utilizes clever wordplay with the line “I’m in the dam building” as opposed to “I’m in the damn building,” again referring to beaver dams.

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