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An eight ball is 3.5 grams of cocaine. In New York, it costs anywhere from (hood price) 90.00 to 150-200 (downtown prices)

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This is the first song on Dr. Dre’s second album, 2001, and he uses it to reflect on the changes he’s observed since his last album.

Written by Eminem per the album liner and confirmed by The D.O.C., Em released a freestyle over the same beat in the following months.

Three years later, an official sequel came out when Jay-Z released “The Watcher 2” with a similar beat and a feature from Dr. Dre.

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“Bring It On” finds JAY-Z, Jaz-O, and Sauce Money come together over a DJ Premier beat that could have originally featured Nas and AZ, according to Dame Dash:

Nas and AZ was supposed to be on ‘Bring It On,’ they kept not showing up. That’s when we wanted to put out The Firm. They didn’t show up. We was meeting and they was saying, ‘Yeah,’ but they wasn’t showing up. We would be waiting and we would be getting offended. So we brought Sauce [Money] and [Big] Jaz on the song.

Rapper Jaz-O talked about the concept of “Bring It On”:

We were really feeling ourselves and “Bring It On” was kind of an anthem song, like, ‘this is us’ and basically, ‘y'all can’t fuck with us.’

JAY-Z described the track as “friendly competition,” while Sauce Money expressed the following:

It was a war. It was a war in the studio, like, your brothers goin' in there and you’re watching them put it down and you’re like, ‘Man, I gotta put it down, I can’t be looking crazy. Because we were so lyrical — let me backtrack, they were so lyrical, it was like, 'I gotta step up, man.’ We all challenged each other.

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Police precinct is a form of division of a geographical area patrolled by a police force

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Charles Manson is a convicted serial killer who has become an icon of evil. In the late 1960s, Manson founded a hippie cult group known as “the Family” whom he manipulated into brutally killing others on his behalf.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XREnvJRkif0

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Rayon is a manufactured regenerated cellulose fiber. Because it is produced from naturally occurring polymers, it is neither a truly synthetic fiber nor a natural fiber; it is a semi-synthetic or artificial fiber. It usually has a high luster quality giving it a bright sheen.

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Big L makes a whole ton of cake.

$20,000 a show, and $3,000 just to kick a freestyle.


LESSON IN DOUBLE SYLLABLES:

And you can see pal
It’s all about me now
20 G’s a show, bitch
3 thou just to freestyle

Syllable 1: See/Me/3/Free

Syllable 2: Pal/Now/Thou/Style

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There have been numerous examples in hip-hop where former drug dealers turned rappers speak on how selling CD’s is similar to hustling drugs. In both cases, if you have hot product you can sell pretty easily.

RapGenius user Zack Schwartz wrote a great blog post on the subject which you can read here


This line was later sampled by Jay-Z in 1997 for his track “Rap Game Crack Game”, another song dedicated to comparing selling drugs to selling CD’s.

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A cyst is a closed sac, having a distinct membrane and division compared to the nearby tissue. It may contain air, fluids, or semi-solid material. A collection of pus is called an abscess, not a cyst. Once formed, a cyst could go away on its own or may have to be removed through surgery.

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Joseph Simmons, Darryl McDaniels and Jason Mizell, better known as Run, DMC and Jam Master Jay, are the members of Run–D.M.C., one of the most influential rap groups of all time. Their 1983 song “Sucker M.C.’s” ushered in the new school of Hip Hop, rendering the look and sound of the old school obsolete almost overnight.

Jam Master Jay (left) was murdered in 2002. RIP.

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