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Jeff Hamilton, Genesis, leather time Cam'ron – Get 'Em Girls
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Jeff Hamilton makes designer leather jackets popular with thugs; the “Genesis” is one of his popular styles

Genesis is also the name of a popular Midtown store where they sell Jeff Hamilton jackets

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I roll mostly dolie Cam'ron – Get 'Em Girls
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  1. “Rock” (from previous clause) n' “Roll”
  2. He rolls fat blunts with no filter (“dolies”)

(“Dolie” could is also pet-name version of “dolo”, which means solo, in which case maybe Cam is trying to tell us he’s lonely)

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The line is..“I roll mostly dodi” Cam is saying when he roll up a blunt. It’s mostly full of potent marijuana. Dodi or Dodie is a popular name in the streets to describe potent marijuana .

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I roll mostly dolie = I’m by myself most of the time

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I'm the real ball story, the loser of "Hoosiers" Cam'ron – Get 'Em Girls
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The basketball movie “Hoosiers” is about how a plucky underdog can beat a powerful dynasty (Cam identifies more with the latter)

The losing team in Hoosiers is all black; the winning team is all white. Many blacks have expressed some unease with this subtext, including Spike Lee.

Keep in mind Cam'ron was a star basketball athelete who went to college for basketball and dropped out

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Awesomeness

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It is because Cam led his Manhattan Center high school basketball team to the NYC public school finals in 1992 and missed a 3 pointer at the buzzer that would have won them the title to ultimately lose by 2 points.

This is similar to the movie “Hoosiers,” where the losing team (which was based on Oscar Robertson’s all-black Crispus Attucks) also loses to a game winning shot by Hickory star Jimmy Chitwood at the buzzer.

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hit from Roota to Toota Cam'ron – Get 'Em Girls
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“From the rooter to the tooter” is a hog farmer phrase meaning “from the snout to the tail”, i.e. “the whole hog”

It’s kind of like when indians say “the whole buffalo”; Cam is saying that he has enough guns to shoot you from your head to your toes (or, more specifically, your toot-hole)

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Luger to Ruger, Cam'ron – Get 'Em Girls
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Luger is standard German service pistol, popular in rap. Ruger is an American brand producing some of the best heavy-caliber pistols. Cam rolls with all sorts of guns

Luger

Ruger

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Ten Crack Commandments The Notorious B.I.G. – Ten Crack Commandments
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In “Ten Crack Commandments,” Biggie presents himself as the Moses of the drug game, juxtaposing the force of God with the dark forces of capitalism, much like Jay Z’s “D'Evils” As in “D'Evils,” the ruthless street religion is stronger than Christianity.

Many believe B.I.G drew inspiration for this song from the July 1994 issue of The Source magazine. It’s the same copy his mom was reading in the “Juicy” video. Their list read:

  1. Never let anyone know how much money you have.
  2. Never let anyone know what your next move will be.
  3. Trust no one.
  4. Never use what you sell.
  5. Never give credit.
  6. Never sell out of your home.
  7. Keep family and business separate.
  8. Never park your stash on your person.
  9. If you’re not being arrested, never be seen communicating with the police.
  10. G.C.G.C. (Great Consignment, Grave Confinement)

This song was originally made as a demo for Angie Martinez’s radio show on Hot 97. Producer DJ Premier told The Combat Jack Show in 2013:

The track was actually a promo that me and Jeru did for Angie Martinez on Hot 97. Back then she did a show called the “Hot 5 at 9″ where she would play the top 5 records at 9 o’clock. If you listen to the scratches, before I added “ten” later on when Biggie got it, I just keep going to five right after the beat drops because it was for the top 5 at 9.

Puffy was guest hosting the show and when he heard the promo he was like “what the hell, who did this?” and Angie told him I did it. So he goes live on the radio like “yo Premier, if you’re out there, call me.” One of my homeboys paged me and told me that Puffy was on the radio telling me to call him. I turn on Hot 97 and right before I was about to turn the dial off, I hear “Premier, Premier, please call me if you hear me on the radio.” He told me he wanted to buy the promo.

I told Jeru and he was like “yo, it’s hip hop. No big deal.” So I sold it to him and Biggie already had a concept, he wanted to call it “Ten Crack Commandments.” I took the “Ten” from a spaceship count down when they go “ten, nine, eight, seven…” And Biggie just rapped over it right there."

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Plea bargain ain't an option now, so I'm stressin' 2Pac (Ft. Val Young) – To Live and Die In L.A.
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He was being charged with a crime, the D.A. won’t offer him a plea bargain since the case against him is too strong, and now he has to go to trial. He’s worried…

(Perhaps this is a reference to 2Pac’s real-life legal troubles which centered around an alleged gang-rape; 2Pac, who claims to have been asleep at the time of the rape, served under a year of a 1 ½ to 4 ½ sentence in Clinton Correctional Facility for the charges

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Big Rock got knocked, but this one's for you 2Pac (Ft. Val Young) – To Live and Die In L.A.
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Neckbone, Tre, Heron, Bountry and Rock were all members of the MOB Piru’s and were Suge Knight’s close friends who Pac had also befriended.

All were present the night 2Pac died. Trevon Lane pointed out Orlando and told Pac who he was. Bountry was present during the 2pac shooting and went after the Cadillac with Neckline and exchanged gunfire with them. The others were at Club 662.

Big Rock went to the pen, Neckline & Tre are still alive & outta jail, Heron was murdered in 1997 and Bountry was murdered in 2002 due to a feud with the Fruit Town Piru’s.

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@shockadelica Yeah those look pretty good, thanks mate!

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@Dyazz – this article has a lot of info:

As Associates Fall, Is 'Suge' Knight Next? — latimes.com
Someone is gunning for Marion "Suge" Knight. The head of Death Row Records grew famous glamorizing gang violence. He called his artists "inmates." His company logo depicted a hooded convict strapped into an electric chair. His producers grafted violent lyrics onto driving rhythms, punctuated by shotgun blasts and wailing sirens.

The part about exchanging gunfire and the others being at 662 was in Murder Rap.

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@Dyazz – any parts specifically?

Big Rock was not present, btw. He was locked up, talks about in an interview –

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This annotation is a goldmine of information, but does anyone have any sources to back it up?

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Neckbone spotted Lane. They all started talking about how they gonna handle it. So Pac asked Tray. He told Pac what was up, but didn’t know he would take it upon himself. Pac immediately rushed Lane with the MOB swooping in later.
The last bit was confirmed by Timmy Ru (Bountry/Buntry’s brother).

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Flenory
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Agreed. It’s actually spelt Bountry, but Buntry is fine too.
Since he was big, built like a truck, they called him Country, but as a Blood member he changed c to b. Therefore – Bountry.

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Bountry is spelled with a o not a u, also its MOB Piru not M.O.B. Piru, Big Rock aka Big Lock was not present as he was in jail at the time of the ‘96 shooting, neckbone isn’t in jail he’s alive & well so is tre,

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Got them Watts niggas with me, O.F.T.B 2Pac (Ft. Val Young) – To Live and Die In L.A.
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O.F.T.B. (Operation From The Bottom) is a rap group from the Watts section of Los Angeles. They were once signed to Death Row along with 2Pac but the group never released an album on the label. They were featured on the Death Row-produced soundtracks for Murder Was The Case, Above The Rim and Gridlock’d. 2Pac collaborated with the members on multiple songs such a version of “Better Dayz,” “World Wide (Time After Time),” and “The Struggle Continues.”

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Dogg Pound in the Lex with a ounce to burn 2Pac (Ft. Val Young) – To Live and Die In L.A.
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Tha Dogg Pound is a rap group comprised of fellow Death Row artists Daz Dillinger and Kurupt. Multiple collaborations between the duo and 2Pac have been released, including “Got My Mind Made Up” from 2Pac’s last album released during his lifetime. 2Pac notes that they’re riding in a Lexus likely puffing on an ounce of the chronic.

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as a continuation of the previous line, in which he shouted out the Bloods, now he’s Shouting out the Crips.

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Kang
8 years

more amounts to earn was the clean version…you can’t talk about ounces of drugs on a radio edit.

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Felix
8 years

I thought that he said:
Dogg Pound in the Lex more amounts to earn

Greetings
Felix
P.S. Great Website its really good designed and super usefull

Thanx to yall Homies

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