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Similar to the previous song, this is a double entendre referring to drug dealer and the “narcos” a.k.a the feds.

At this point in the narrative, the feds have gathered their evidence on “Stalkers” and are moving in to make arrests.

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Mike Dean with do the synths. A song called “stalkers” needs synths.

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“Stalkers” is a double entendre. It refers to the bird “stalk”, that traditionally delivers babies (in this case drugs, “bird” is a term for a kilo of cocaine) and it also refers to the feds, who have caught onto Clipse and are beginning to “stalk” them.

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Scott Storch may be broke but he’s produced plenty of hits in his time. I feel like he’d bring a part of Miami to this song.

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The sample would come as the track is fading out, leading into the back half of the album:

You’ve got to know the rules before you can break ‘em. Otherwise, it’s no fun.

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Leading in from the previous song, the narrative of the album begins to take shape. This song is about Clipse at their absolute peak in both the drug game and the music business.

Justin Timberlake performs the hook. I’ve always wanted to see him on a Clipse song. Lowkey hoping for a J.T feature on King Push

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This song is a reference to Griselda Blanco, notorious columbian and Miami drug lord during the 1970s and early 1980s, well before the likes of Pablo Escobar.

Pusha has name dropped her before on “Pain”:

Put your freedom over failure
Tryna find my Griselda (La Madrina!)

Here’s what GZA said when he annotated that line:

She came to the US with $27,000 a few months later she was a millionaire. A year after that she was worth $500m. And then she went to Miami and it tripled. The whole Scarface story was really her story. She was responsible for over 240 murders in Miami.

She killed like 3 of her husbands. One of them she killed in front of her son. They were arguing over who would have custody. She called 6 police officers to pull her husband over when he was trying to flee with the son to Colombia and they gunned him down in front of the kid.

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It wouldn’t be a Clipse record without the Re-Up Gang making an appearance. All these guys have featured on classic Clipse tracks.

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This song was originally performed in the 1946 musical Annie Get Your Gun but was later performed and popularized by Ethel Merman in a movie titled There’s No Business Like Show Business.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aVMXw_y7jyI

This would serve as the intro to the song, before it slowly fades out and a dirty Neptunes beat drops!

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A nod to their classic Mass Appeal cover. This also ties into the album title—Days Of Our Lives was a Hollywood soap opera.

Fun fact: @bfred is responsible for this Mass Appeal cover!

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