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Double meaning on “sense”. When you listen to the lyrics it sounds like “cents” and the line is self explanatory the fact she probably smoked to much to do much with the money.

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At the start of the second DMX skips ahead to the aftermath of the phone call scenario he set up in the first verse.

The affair has already started, and has been ongoing for a while.

He’s starting to see how far he can go with her and if she’ll leave her man to be with him.

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Here Pac proposes a first-hand experience expressing how even though these kids weren’t like those of the “american dream” family, they still had there hope in dreams. Pac shows us that in this case these kids couldn’t look forward to school, and didn’t have peers that guided them and as a result the only way they can achieve their dreams on the streets is by selling drugs to those that lived on the streets with them.

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He’ll do the legit hustle as in take your money with his music. Not the 70’s dance, which was called “the hustle”

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I6mED-Ncxik

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Michael Jordan, who recently turned 50, is considered the greatest basketball player of all-time.

Jordan was an inspiration to most ballers around the world, as he not only won 10 scoring titles, 6 NBA Finals (with a perfect record of 6-0) and Finals MVPs, 5 regular season MVPs, but also because he remains a force to be reckoned with, as his shoe brand Air Jordan is one of the most popular and flyest out there today. He’s way more than basketball.

But back to the point of the line, MJ was known as one of the most clutch basketball players to ever live, with 23 game-winners, right behing another legend, Kobe Bryant, who has 36 game-winning plays.

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Beside the wordplay, check the alliteration with the words “Judge” “Judy” and “Jobs”.

If Judge Judy is giving blow jobs, you assume she’s kneeling down and he’s standing up, towering over her. Hence “above the law.”

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Its true, with lyrics you need a flow to put them out in a way people understand and appreciate them. You also need good producing and such. Also Chino is probably referring to his outside life from hiphop. His skills cant get him daily satisfaction.

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The realm of Hiphop. Which originated from the streets and revolves around lyricism and potency. During the 90’s it was a little evident that some mainstream gimmicks were becoming popular. Unfortunately, as Chino called it, Hiphop is as bad as ever in this modern day era as a lot of pop-phrases are being repeated and Hiphop is at a direction where context, flow, lyrics and skills dont matter anymore.

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There’s a lot of references in this song that lead you to believe they had the east coast/west coast beef that was going on in their mind while recording this track. This was recorded around 1996 which was definitely one of the most important and darkest years in Hiphop’s history.

The East coast/West coast feud was at the peak around this time as Capone N Norega and the Dogg Pound was beefing and more importantly, the Pac and Biggie beef.

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Due to the negative turn hiphop took, it got very oriented and caught up in the east coast west coast beef. Eventually not only did it take this direction, but the 2 biggest rappers out there then after got shotup and killed which was a magnificent loss for hiphop. In a span of 2 years we lost 2 of the top 5 Hiphop artists all time.

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