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Mama's Gonna Kick Me Out In Living Color (Ft. Shawn Wayans) – Mama's Gonna Kick Me Out
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This is a music video parody on In Living Color which Shawn Wayans as Jimmie Walker’s character J.J Evans on Good Times. This is a parody of LL Cool J’s Mama Said Knock You Out

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Hillary's still with Bill Clinton, how do they do it?
He got his dick sucked and the whole damn WORLD knew it Ludacris – Let's Stay Together
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Bill Clinton had a widely publicized affair with Monica Lewinsky but Hilary forgave him.

Luda is emphasizing the fact that Bill Clinton definitely did something terrible that would make Hillary leaving him justified, but if they could overcome the scandal and hurt, then no one else really has an excuse.

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So what's up, Big Bahama Mama? MC Lyte – Steady Fucking
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Lyte opens by making sure we all know what she’s refering to.

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(Roxanne Shanté is only good for steady fucking) (6x) MC Lyte – Steady Fucking
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Famous line from BDP’s classic track The Bridge Is Over, a diss aimed at the Juice Crew (of which Shanté was a member).

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Tell the truth, James Brown was old
'Til Eric and Ra came out with "I Got Soul"
Rap brings back old R&B
And if we would not, people could've forgot Stetsasonic – Talkin' All That Jazz
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A little disrespectful to The Godfather, but not wholly innacurate. Songs like Eric B & Rakim’s “I Know You Got Soul” – which sampled Bobby Byrd’s 1971 original – introduced a whole new generation to old funk, soul and jazz records.

In some cases the original artists were able to profit from this renewed interest in their music. Bobby Byrd’s song was re-released and he and other James Brown alumni found themselves in demand again for tours. Other artists got paid in sample fees and publishing (even if they had to sue!).

Money aside, many people whose music was sampled in the 80s and 90s are now revered by a generation who otherwise might never have heard of them. This musical education was an important part of the culture, sadly lost with the decline of sampling in Hip Hop.

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James Brown also was talking down on hip-hop sampling all his songs.

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Well here's how it started, heard you on the radio
Talking 'bout rap, saying all that crap
About how we sample, giving examples
Think we'll let you get away with that? Stetsasonic – Talkin' All That Jazz
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As Stetsasonic frontman Daddy-O explained, this song was a response to jazz musician James Mtume’s comments about Hip Hop on a New York radio show. After Mtume attacked sampling, Daddy-O went on the show to defend it. This led to a back and forth between the two culminating in this song.

Samples from “Juicy Fruit”, one of Mtume’s biggest hits, appear at key points in the song. This was several years before Puffy and co got their hands on it for “Juicy” (and even before Wrecks-N-Effect).

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But I'm the wrong brother to dance with
'Cause I don't need a partner to swing LL COOL J – To Da Break Of Dawn
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MC Hammer received a lot of backlash to his dancable style of hip hop as well as his elaborate dancing routines. Digital Underground, 3rd Bass and LL are among the people that dissed him.

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Yeah, this line was the inspiration for Chino XL’s “Partner to Swing.‘ He sampled it really well.

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6 years

This line is also a subliminal shot towards EPMD, as member Parrish Smith (better known as PMD) pointed out in a 2017 interview on Sway’s Universe.

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Hector
7 years

“I don’t need a partner to swing” refers to how MC Hammer started out with a partner named Too Big MC who was more of a hype man yelling in the background.

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this line would later be sampled in the chorus of Chino XL’s “Partner to Swing”

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