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To believe that in America blacks are inferior Big Daddy Kane (Ft. Gamilah Shabazz) – Who Am I
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Afro-American’s are lower in rank, status, or quality. ( Inferior )

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And I was shipped to the U.S.A
A young brother made into a slave Big Daddy Kane (Ft. Gamilah Shabazz) – Who Am I
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South African history has been dominated by the communication and conflict of several diverse ethnic groups. The aboriginal Khoikhoi people have lived in the region for millennia. Most of the population, however, trace their history to immigration since. Indigenous Africans in South Africa are descendants of immigrants from further north in Africa who first entered what are now the confines of the country roughly one thousand seven hundred years ago. White South Africans are descendants of later European settlers, mainly from the Netherlands and Britain.

#His ancestors were shipped to the U.S.A and turned them into a slave.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_South_Africa

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Just cause you have dragon breath don’t mean you spit flames Talib Kweli – Back It Up
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Dragon breath is slang for bad breath .

If you have a dragon breath don’t mean you spit flame, its just that your

breath stinks.

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Your knees shaking cause you buckle under pressure Talib Kweli – Back It Up
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When You’re under pressure you feel nervous and fear which will leave your knees shaking.

Knees shaking means : You’re shaking with fear.

Buckle under something means : to collapse under or from the weight of something (.i.e collapse from the weight of pressure )

Kweli is saying that you’ll collapse shaking with fear.

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They call your girlfriend a beard, need shaving Talib Kweli – Back It Up
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If you shave your beard you’ll loose it,
so by this statement

They call your girlfriend a beard, need shaving

What he meant is:

Kweli will take your girlfriend with him.

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Sometimes together make exotic looking children Nas – Colors
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When a black male and a white female makes a baby that baby looks
exotic / originating in or characteristic of a distant foreign country..

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From the 1-1-2, the double-3 ill zip code Big Daddy Kane (Ft. Scoob Lover) – Brooklyn Style...Laid Out
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http://brooklyn.about.com/od/Brooklyn-Zip-Code/a/Brooklyn-Zip-Codes-By-Neighborhood.htm

Neighborhood: Stuyvesant Heights

Brooklyn Zip Code: 11233

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Well is it Brownsville? Big Daddy Kane (Ft. Scoob Lover) – Brooklyn Style...Laid Out
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Brownsville is a residential neighborhood located in eastern Brooklyn, New York City.

The total land area is 2.19 square miles, and the ZIP codes for the neighborhood are 11212 and 11233. Brownsville is bordered by Fulton Street to the north (on the Bedford-Stuyvesant border), East 98th Street/Ralph Avenue to the west (Flatbush and Crown Heights borders) and the freight rail Bay Ridge Branch of the Long Island Rail Road running along Linden Boulevard to the south (adjacent to the neighborhood of Canarsie) and Van Sinderen Avenue to the east (East New York)

Scoob Representing Brownsville ( His Crib )

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Macy, Ol' Dirty Bastard (Ft. Damon Elliott & Macy Gray) – Don't Go Breakin' My Heart
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Macy Gray (born Natalie Renée McIntyre; September 6, 1969) is an American R&B and soul singer-songwriter, musician, record producer, and actress,

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From coke to PCP Ol' Dirty Bastard (Ft. Joe Budden) – Danger Zone
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Phencyclidine, commonly initialized as PCP and known colloquially as angel dust, KJ, illy, or wet, is a recreational dissociative drug. Formerly used as an anesthetic agent, PCP exhibits hallucinogenic effects.

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