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Lupe’s grandmother would always say “peace and much love to you” instead of saying good-bye – he makes reference to this on The Cool’s “Fighters:”

And grandma, you know I had to bite something from you so after every show it’s ‘Peace! And much love to you’

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Enter the Wu-Tang (36 Chambers) was released back in the year 1993, and even now, this album is considered one of the most influential albums of all time. It inspired most of the rappers in the game, including the late great Notorious B.I.G.

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Canibus’s referring to a song he made, called 1000 Bars, also known as Poet Laureate Infinity.
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He would describe his verses in the song, “Pimpin' Won’t Die” as continuations of Tupac’s “Brenda’s Got a Baby” and Slick Rick’s “Children’s Story”. He described the Brenda’s Got a Baby continuation as: “Brenda has her baby and the concept is basically giving you what happened after she left the baby in a trashcan and the child grew up. I basically do a continuation of that record. The child actually grows up to be a prostitute. The message in the record is that if somebody’s out there prostituting then don’t judge that person without knowing their background.”

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They see him alone in NY… Those chains won’t be gleaming on his neck.

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Pap and his goons will rob Kendrick when they see him. “Put your lips on your cross” has a double meaning. One is the classic line “Cross your lips”, as in be quite and don’t speak. Two, is to touch the Cross/Crucifix chain and “kiss it goodbye”.

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This is a sample from Method Man & Redman’s ‘’Part II‘’.

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Big Punisher, The Notorious B.I.G. and Big L are considered some of the best lyricists in all of Hip Hop’s history, but unfortunately died before their time. Cass is saying that he’s so sick with the lyrics, he’s giving you the idea that all his rhymes are written by the three greats.

And so ghost writing is a double entendre here;

  1. All 3 rappers are dead – ghosts are a symbol of a dead person…
  2. Ghostwriting is when someone writes for you, but you take all the credit for it… and you don’t see no credit to Big L or anyone for “writing his lyrics

So he is alluding to that fact, suggesting others must believe the ghosts of all three rappers are writing for Cass

He also uses an Adnomination here; BIG, Big L and Big Pun.

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This line is referring to what Canibus said on a song with Common, titled ‘Making A Name For Ourselves’. Canibus said

“MC’s will compete with lyrics and beats get crushed, I’ll hit you in your chest so hard, your shoulders will touch”.

Since Bis decided to show up with a broken arm, Diz flipped Bis’s own bar on him.

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