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“Put change on your sombrero” is a rewording of put money on your head.

falsetto – snitching is called singing. and singing falsetto is singing a man singing in the high range of a woman. So he’s saying a male snitch has feminine ways. See GZA’s line on “Killah Hills 10304”

Goodfellas is a movie about mobsters.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qo5jJpHtI1Y

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Bronson claims he has on a beltless trench coat, (as allegedly invented by Morty Seinfeld), but then goes out of his way to mention the belt. He’s a walking contradiction, though, after all.

(Or maybe he stays strapped underneath it)

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If you get caught doing crime, do your sentence and don’t snitch. Being a snitch is more suffering than actually doing a sentence because you have to live in fear of being killed.

“A thousand deaths” refers to the opening quote of “A coward dies a thousand deaths, a soldier die but once” on 2pac’s “Death around the Corner” which is a rewording of Shakespeare’s quote “Cowards die many times before their deaths; The valiant never taste of death but once”.

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In this song, a package(liqour) store is the equalizing hub of the community. Here, the preacher is also a whoremonger and the thief is a philosopher. No one can judge the other because they all are using liquor to deal with their contradictions.

From Big K.R.I.T.’s 4eva N A Day.

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Best known as Talib Kweli’s main producer, here Hi-tek tries his hand at rapping. He wrestles with being serious about his music(a hiphop producer that actually plays piano) and serious about his money.
Wu-tang Clan members Ghostface Killah and Raekwon deliver high quality verses that extend playing the piano into a metaphor for orchestrating their respective crime organizations.
“My Piano” appears on 2007’s Hi-Teknology 3 a compilation album entirely produced by Hi-Tek.

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People are curious to why he spend all my time making music and playing piano. The other producers are not taking making music serious but he is.

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The answer is both. He does his music for the sake of music but he happily embraces wealth and fame recieved from it.

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Hi-Tek asks a series of questions about the reasons he plays his piano (makes music) contrasting artistry with commercialism. .

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Dressed in white t-shirts, waiting for enemies (people looking out of place like a Munster would).

The Munsters is a old TV show.

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We carry double .45 caliber pistols, there are no flaws in our soldiering.

tight: without flaw

The .45 caliber 1911 was once the U.S. military service pistol and is a reliable, popular weapon.

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