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Flash Gordon is a superhero from the science fiction adventure comic strip of the same name.
Brad Jordan is the rapper Scarface’s real name. Hence the wordplay using his rap name.
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Sarah Vaughn was a jazz singer from the 1940s up until her death in 1990. She has been praised on many occasions for having one of the most beautiful voices of the 20th century.
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Talib is comparing himself to successful and inspirational Africans. Louis Farrakhan is the leader of the African-American religious movement, Nation of Islam. He is well known for his outspoken and sometimes controversial political views.
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C. Delores Tucker was an African-American politician and civil rights activist, known for her stance against gangster rap music.
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The sound of loud horns is usually associated with the idea of being victorious or the champion. The use of keys possibly refers to the idea of giving someone the “key to the city”; which is the act of a city giving an ornamental key to a person they wish to honor.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1p2Gh3uFCJ4
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K.R.I.T. is a known Christian and a lot of his music is based around that. His mixtape 4eva N a Day is a prime example of this.
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Glucose is a simple monosaccharide, a basic unit of carbohydrates and the simplest form of sugar.
He’s calling out his competition in this line.
Ice-T gave ya cliff notes, I ain't gotta dumb it down Talib Kweli (Ft. Al Be Back, Black Thought & Rah Digga) – Art Imitates Life
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Kweli’s competition is behind in the rap game. Ice-T was one of the first big time hip-hop artists, pioneering the gangster subgenre. Kweli’s saying that Ice-T’s music is sort of the “blueprint” of how hip-hop should be made (just like how Cliff Notes are a series of student study guides on many subjects), and that he shouldn’t have to “dumb it down” to help anyone understand it – because they should by now.
Ice-T’s album Rhyme Pays is considered to be the album that defined the gangster rap subgenre. It was also the first hip-hop album to have an explicit content sticker.
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