The money gained by pushing cocaine was used to start Clipse. Cooking crack went straight to making the rap you hear.

While T expected to leave the drug and rap game in good hands while fighting the label, he came back to find a mess. Between no good drops and terrible songs, it looked as if rap had sat around in their absence.

Rather than fading like the fans of other genres, hiphop fans keep growing and taking over the airwaves.

A play on Tupac’s line in the 95 Freestyle:

No matter how you try, niggas never die
We just retaliate with hate, then we multiply

The remains of the statue were propped on a pedestal, a large slab of rock that usually bears an inscription about the origin and purpose of the statue.

While Ozymandias was a ruthless and cruel leader, he also provided the food for his empire. The acts of man, in this case both benevolent and foul, exist only as a story, no longer part of physical objects in the desert.

Despite collapsing and eroding, the distinct images of power remain. Percy notes the irony of such powerful, arrogant features appearing on a wasted, broken depiction.

Ramses II exhibited his power physically. The original sculptor accurately depicted a look of absolute, unquestionable power. The original statue was meant to show power without the need for Ramses' actual presence. Throughout time, he was to greet visitors by putting them in their place.

The remains of the upper portion of the statue have eroded and collapsed, remaining only as sand-to-be.

Next to the legs, buried in the sand, is a face, mostly in pieces.

The remains of a statue of the great king Ramses II stand in the desert, the only part of a much larger statue still existing.

In this case, the antique land is Egypt. Notice that the rest of the poem consists of a quotation. The speaker of the poem is barely present, but the traveller-narrator who takes over gives the story the flavor of a legendary tale.