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People claimed to have conflict with Royce but now there is no more conflict because his goons killed them.

He makes a metaphor of cooking and killing. Heat= Gun Beef= Conflict Cook= Apply the heat and kill.

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The combination of the producers REEF’s dirty beats with his disturbed raps is equal to a gun.

Heat means a hot song and also refers to the “gun” he writes them with.

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When he records in the booth, once he comes out, he’s Superman! His words are saving the young minds.

References the Superman movies where “Clark Kent” goes into a phonebooth and turns into Superman.

Clark Kent

Superman

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I’m smoking a big cigar and a beautiful woman is dumping the ashes for me.
British World War 2 Prime Minister Winston Churchill was known for smoking cigars.
Beautiful women aren’t known for dumping ashes but they will for Ghostface.

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I’m going to Aspen, Colorado, a popular resort town in the Rocky Mountains wearing expensive eyewear.

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I have a baldhead like the rapper Jadakiss and women are attracted to it.

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I’m making money by developing a complex criminal enterprise all over the city.

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I will make money through crime until my offspring are elderly. When I’m 80 years old, I’ll stay youthful by swallowing erectile dysfunction drugs and having marathon sex.

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Until I go broke I calmly play the piano leading a band of criminals selling crack and marijuana. My crime game is so good that Mafia members work for me.
Here, Ghostface ties his crime rap into the hook by using the piano as a metaphor for orchestrating crime.
“On the bass” has a double meaning. Bass is an instrument and base meaning freebase or crack cocaine.

Mariano Rivera of the Yankees is the best closing pitcher of all time, known for his saves record.

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If I run out of money I’ll sell fake crack and low quality weed to survive. Don’t get in the way of Ghostface Killah.

Tone Loc is a name Ghostface goes by. It’s an adaptation of his Wu-Gambino nickname Tony Starks.

The original Tone Loc

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