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The Usual Suspects (so named after a famous saying from the classic Humphrey Bogart film Casablanca) is a movie starring Kevin Spacey. Spacey is a crime lord – Keyzer Soze – posing as a crippled fraudster named Verbal Kint
SPOILER: At the end of the film, there’s a classic scene in which the police officer realizes who Spacey is just as he walks away and drops his mug in slow motion
Spacey, meanwhile, begins by limping away – but [stops limping when he gets to his limo] going from disabled to “able”
The ‘watch how their mugs drop’ also refers to the faces of his competitors – their faces (or ‘mugs’) will drop from a happy expression to one of anger or disappointment when they hear Lupe spit.
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Duce refers to leader in Italian, most commonly used by Benito Mussolini during World War II who was II Duce. Viva II Duce means “Long Live the Leader” i.e. Long Live Lupe, the Leader.
L.U.P-Emperor.
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The final line is a double meaning: One meaning being selling kilos (“ki’s”) of coke, and the other being a reference to blind pianists like Stevie Wonder and Ray Charles who push piano keys wonderfully
Also, notice the Dragon Ball Z references here with both this line and the one immediately preceding it: “Saying” could be interpreted as “Saiyan”, and “ki” is the force energy used throughout the Dragon Ball series.
This is not the first time Lu has dropped some DBZ punches. Check out this near identical line from the original Free Chilly song (not off of The Cool)
All in all, this might actually be triple entendre:
1. To push key as in sell coke
2. Push ki as in DBZ fighters (goes back to the saying/saiyan thing)
3. Push keys as in playing the piano. “Wonderfully” refers to Stevie Wonder which also ties into the blind theme
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Soundtrakk provided production for the track and is Lupe’s main producer
Also, when you sample from vinyl…you get the popping sound!