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“Soooo!!!” was a rallying call for nascent Clan members in early 90s Staten Island.

Another interpretation can be drawn from their pronunciation, “su”. It means “skill” in chinese. The Wu heard it in Kung Fu flicks and use it as a call that means “you’re down with the Wu Tang”.

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The boots that the slaves wore in the fields. They’re dirty, rugged, and very-fucked up.

RZA, Wu-Tang Manual

It could also be a reference to a Margaret Thatcher quote about the military:

Our necks have been protected by a military personnel who were more rugged than slave-man boots.

This quote is especially relevant since it mentions necks being protected, much like Wu-Tang’s breakout single, “Protect Ya Neck.”

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“Murder one” either refers to first-degree murder, or simply killing someone.

Raekwon has a similar line in “Wu-Tang 7th Chamber”:

Killa Beez attack, flippin' what, murder one.

Knot is slang for head. He’s saying his Wu-Tang slang has the same physical effect as a stun gun.

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Naughty by Nature’s 1991 self-titled album featured the single “Everything’s Gonna Be All Right” that was also titled as “Ghetto Bastard” on explicit releases of the same album.

And for a while “ghetto bastard” became a popular term of art in hip-hop

Biscuit is the slang term for a gun, usually revolver

…even though it’s occasionally associated with some less than reputable characters.

Finally, Family Guy can say it much better than we can:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V9CLB5bdOqQ

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Beasties' 3-part song style requires perfect timing, or as Mike D put it in “3 Minute Rule”:

Not perfect grammar, always perfect timing
The Mike stands for money and the D is for diamonds

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This line should be praised for its haunting majesty as it could not fit more sublimely with the amorphous concept of “the end.”

Consider these interpretations and how each works depending on how one in turn interprets the concept of “the end”:

  • I’ll never look you in the eye again.

  • I’ll never see your eyes again because our paths will never cross again.

  • I’ll never see your eyes again cause one (or both) of us is dead.

It could also be that the break-up was due to a deception or lie from one of them. So there would be too much shame for them to look in each others' eyes ever again.

As an allusion to Oedipus Rex, he has blinded himself in order to see the truth in his own existence.

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2Pac now puts any innuendo and/or insinuations aside and puts his feelings into the most direct language possible.

What’s beef? That – my friends – is beef.

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In pimp speak, “snatching a woman off the street” is what the pimp does to his under-performing ho’s. That is to say, the pimp takes the under-performers out of rotation.

Here, Pac implies that Kim is “an under-performing ho.” Goldie (pictured in white fur) wouldn’t stand for that.

He also calls Lil Kim ugly, something that all women take as extremely offense and saying it to them is even more taboo than calling Biggie fat – this line may be the reason she looks like this today

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“Gratitude” is the 4th track on Beastie Boys' third (full-length) LP, Check Your Head. It was born out of a demo track performed by MCA’s band Brooklyn in 1988 titled “I Don’t Know (Ask For Gratitude)”.

It was recorded and mixed at G-Son Studios, Atwater Village, CA,Co-produced by Beastie Boys & Mario C with Mario C acting as engineer. After sequencing at PCP Labs, the album was released on 4.21.1992. As the fourth single for CYH, “Gratitude” dropped on 10.4.1992, appealing primarily to modern rock radio. MCA uses a distortion pedal on his bass guitar to create the track’s signature sound.

The music video to this song is an homage to the 1972 concert film, Pink Floyd: Live at Pompeii and was recorded in Rotorua, New Zealand. The video was featured on MTV’s “Beavis and Butthead,” who gave the song a positive review. This song was also included in Guitar Hero 5.

source: musicstack

Gratitude was performed live in 226 known concerts.

source: rapmusicguide

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Flavor Flav ignores the plight of a friend in his own inimitable style (and finds time to play the dozens) on this light-hearted number off of Fear of a Black Planet

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