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Cut Creator (whose real name is Jay Philpot) is LL’s DJ. According to Cut’s website, he “met a skinny kid who called himself ’LL Cool J' [at a block party and] they clicked right away and the rest was history.”

For 20+ years as a DJ, Cut was voted amongst the top 25 hip-hop DJs of all time by Newsweek Magazine. He has performed on everything from the BET Music Awards to the Ellen DeGeneres show and is considered by many a legendary icon in the hip-hop industry.

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You gotta keep it real with KRS. He don’t deal with no fake pussies.

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Off his album “I Got Next”.


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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GHgC8ueH048

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Actors Jackie Gleason and the Art Carney from the classic sitcom The Honeymooners. They weren’t the thinnest actors in the world, but like Phife they had fat style.

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Mario Lemieux is a hockey legend. Phife takes to your crew like Lemieux took the to the ice.

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A reference to the first O.J. Simpson trial where he get off on all charges including the murder of his wife.

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Cocaine keys was a song by Mellowhype and then Mike G used it on his mixtape “Mike Check” in 2008. Loyal fans have been fucking with him since then.

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Braids are a style of hair and since Michael Jordan was bald his whole career he’s not growing hair any time soon.

With that being said, Cassidy is using this as a simile to say he won’t ever be poor again.

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One of the soundtracks from the game NBA 2K11.

So Cassidy just spits some bars in this song, with a good portion of them relating to basketball, fitting for a basketball game…

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“Murder Rap” was Above The Law’s first single, released in 1990 on Ruthless Records (label of N.W.A.-founder Eazy-E). It’s the first track on their debut album Livin' Like Hustlers also released in 1990.

The song is featured in the movie Pineapple Express and in the video game Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas.

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