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All Kung Fu samples in this song are from the film Shaolin vs. Lama
Each struggling in vain for ultimate supremacy
In the passion and depth of their struggle
The very art that had raised them to such Olympian heights was lost
Their techniques vanished GZA (Ft. Inspectah Deck, Masta Killa & Ol' Dirty Bastard) – Duel of the Iron Mic
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I wondered where you'd learned it from
You know very well, it's yours too
Heh, I had forgotten, will you show me?
And what have you come for?
You come here, since you're so interested - fight me GZA (Ft. Inspectah Deck, Masta Killa & Ol' Dirty Bastard) – Duel of the Iron Mic
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The Roc's silent partner I ain't throwing up the diamond Pusha T (Ft. Ab-Liva & Rick Ross) – I Still Wanna
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Kareem “Biggs” Burke (seen on right in the photo below) was the co-founder of Roc-A-Fella records who was arrested for for a drug bust (Marijuana though!). Burke’s drug dealing was referenced by Pusha on Number On The Board:
“Mix drug and show money, Biggs Burke on tour”
Kareem was known as the silent parter because unlike Dame Dash he wasn’t dancing around in the music videos and constantly doing interviews.
The Wynn, the Bellagio, the Palms three nights Pusha T – Can I Live (Freestyle)
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So you can sit your little clit on it and just
Let it buzz off all day (yeah) Knowhatimsaying, ma? Ghostface Killah – Stapleton Sex
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Ghost buying his girl a sybian
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“I Gotcha Back” is considered the “true” closing track to Liquid Swords, since “B.I.B.L.E.” is a bonus track. In it, GZA breaks down the cyclical nature of inner city violence among the youth.
He told Wax Poetics,
This was a short rhyme I wrote for one of my nephews. When I said, “My lifestyle so far from well, could’ve wrote a book called Age Twelve and Going Through Hell.” It’s for my nephew who was twelve at the time, and whose father, my brother, had been locked up since ’88. So he wasn’t around for my nephew when times were rough, so I wanted to up my nephew a bit with this track.
It was actually part of the soundtrack for the movie Fresh. I don’t know if a lot of people know this, but I directed the video for that song. The interesting thing about that [one] is how the video blends in with the movie itself. I had two nephews in the video, they were both real young at the time. And in video, they both had met up and shots rang out from some young gangsters. It’s a shame because both those kids in the video, both nephews of mine, ended up getting in trouble for ringing out shots and are both doing time right now. It’s kind of ironic. One of my nephews ended up getting eights years for that shit. So the whole song is a sad irony to me now.
13-year-old Sean Nelson in Fresh.
Warriors, angry men, war mongers, barbarians
Holy men, crusaders, face huggers and space truckers The Holocaust – Mad Axes
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