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When any drug is “stepped on” it means other illicit products has been added to it to falsify its weight.

The extra weight will increase the amount of product, but it also lowers its quality making it harder to sell to people who notice.

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Odin, the Allfather of the gods in Norse mythology, sacrificed his eye in exchange for knowledge of all time. In some mythos Odin’s missing eye is depicted to have been replaced by a gold eye or covered by a gold patch.

Sauce is seeing the future as if looking through Odin’s golden eye and he finds that he will sell 500,000 records.

Selling half a million records earns one a gold plaque from the RIAA, so in his anticipation of sales Sauce is looking with a “golden eye”, so to speak.

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This is a classic Jay ad-lib. Jay loves to feel what he’s flowing to so he’s always telling the engineers (Young Guru) to turn up the music.

Young Guru: “If you hear Jay-Z say, ‘Guru, tell that girl open that Ace’ or ‘Turn the lights down,’ on a song, he’s really talking [to people in the studio]. Like on Scarface’s ‘Guess Who’s Back,’ when he’s talking in the beginning and he’s like, ‘Gu turn my headphones down, my headphones distorting,’ that’s all real.”

This remix was also featured on the Beats by Dre Youtube channel therefore this could be a reference to the headphone makers, Beats.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XVp-JDOUphc

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Instrumental

https://soundcloud.com/jayhovaswitness/got-the-blues-instrumental

Full version coming soon hopefully.

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This whole verse is an extension of The Notorious B.I.G.’s immortal “Mike” line on Diddy’s Victory

I perform like Mike
Anyone – Tyson, Jordan, Jackson

Also, Redman infamously used some screwy math in a line on KRS-ONE’s 5 Boroughs.

My paragraph alone is worth five mics
A twelve song LP, that’s thirty-six mics

He is applying the same idea of getting more than the Source’s classic album denoting five mic rating with much less than an album. In fact he is claiming a Mike/mic per line in just one song. A 16 mic rating for a 16! Each line is inspired by or based on a different famous Mike, but the lyrics also tell a story on they’re own.

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@LTsTeez and I, @Jay-Hovas_Witness, are debating against each other in the first round of @arobie1992’s debate tournament. Because of this we started beefing and this thread was born. This is the battle that took place on that thread.

Please nobody annotate these lyrics! The writers are annotating it themselves.

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The king of the safari zone!

Though Luxray can be considered a lion, Pyroar is actually the first legitimate adult lion Pokemon. To stay true to the famous sexual dimorphism (visible gender difference) of lions, the male and female Pyroar look different.

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Here Jay is saying he went from a Green Machine (a popular big wheel that most inner city kids had) to a green 5 series BMW.

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#Double Entendre

  1. Gassing means to exaggerate, typically when giving compliments. “You have a little bit of fame and money that you dint even earn and now you think you’re the shit, what wacko gave you that idea?”

  2. “Your career is comparable to a car accident–who was pushing the gas pedal?”

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That’s when Jay brainstorms.

He also made bit of similiar remark later on Blueprint 3:

oh, they call me a Camel
But I mastered the drought

Which could also refer to his continued success during a downturn in the music industry.

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