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Your soul's gold unearth it. Coexist – 199X
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This music girl my bottom B
The way I'm workin' like she pimpin' me Krizz Kaliko (Ft. Marcus Yates) – Gumbo
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Tryna beat the Rocky like Carl Weathers
Trap boy Kane, I Clubber Lang Sylvester Freddie Gibbs & Madlib – Freestyle Shit
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Freddie pulls together a series of references together to show how he’s back in both the dope and rap game after spending years working and refining Bandana even with the collaborations, solo projects, and even a sexual assault trial coming out in between.
He uses two roles from film actor Carl Weathers to emphasize this: Action Jackson, the starring role of a movie named after said role, and more famously, Apollo Creed from the Rocky Balboa series. The latter sees Weathers portraying Rocky’s rival who holds the heavyweight boxing title in the first movie and half of the 2nd film. Given the portrayal of Creed as a champion facing an up-and-coming challenger, the line is possibly about Freddie Gibbs portraying himself to be someone fending off any potential threats to his dope game.
Freddie layers this line by using the nomenclature of Rocky as a metaphor for cooking crack.
Continuing with the Rocky references, Clubber Lang, portrayed by Mr. T, is the antagonist of the Rocky 3, where the fierce and aggressive challenger successfully grabs the championship from Rocky in the first half of the film. This reference possibly means that Gibbs is all about beating those at the top of the dope game.
