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Hit Em Up” was a diss song by Tupac and The Outlawz. The opening line went like this.

Fuck your bitch and the clique you claim, Westside when we ride, come equipped with game

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A flea flicker is a play in American football where the ball is handed to the running back, then the running back tosses the ball back to the quarterback to throw down field.

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A phalanx is a mass military formation, usually composed entirely of heavy infantry. This goes back to the Verbal war with weapons line. Del is starting a verbal uprising.

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He made so much money that he bought a professional sports team, which costs hundreds of millions of dollars. Or he’s finally rich enough to roll with an entourage.

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Describing the experience of being on drugs

Ride also references run of the mill MCs. Ride is living in a trance, ignoring these terrible rappers. “What’d you say forgot you were even there” means he listens to these rappers, but all their lyrics are throw-away lines, i.e. “Oops, sorry. Forgot you were even there with all the bullshit you’re talking'.

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Taking your life by shooting you, the wheel symbolizes the cylinder of a revolver.

In addition, and as a consequence of this event, the wheel could represent the wheel of Dharma which signifies the cycle of death and rebirth until nirvana is achieved.

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This line, along with the last one, states that MC Ride’s lyrics are like radioactive shots from a shotgun, and the mic needs to be protected.

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Mossberg is a firearms company that makes pump action rifles, a Shure Beta 58a is a microphone, and a hazmat suit protects against radiation.

His microphone is “hazmatted” to protect it from the sickness he spits.

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A perfect duo here, Busdriver the bus driver, and NoCanDo the rider, they make up Flash Bang Grenada.

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“Stacking cheese” is another way of saying you’re getting money. Logic has been getting money for so long that it’s become moldy, which is what happens to actual cheese when it sits out for too long.

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