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Few things going on here:

  • A somewhat overused punchline relating crack/heroine/cocaine (dope) to your flow/style/lyrics. See Lil' Wayne for an example of the hundreds of ways a rapper can structure this metaphor.
  • Corner boy drug dealers will store vials of crack in their cheeks, so if the police run up and pat them down, they can spit the drug vials out (no suspicious hand movements) or atleast they won’t have anything in their pockets.
  • An eight ball is slang for 1/8th of an ounce of cocaine
  • When he spits the coke, it’s always on point, as if he had called the “eight ball in the corner pocket” in a game of pool.

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Ice Cube’s Song It Was a Good Day (Remix) references back to the AK, and at the time Ice had started to solidify himself as an actor with Boyz n the Hood and the Friday series.

Royce just uses stronger guns than the AK.

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Was the DJ for the Hip Hop group Run-D.M.C.

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Royce has discussed his distaste in radio before. Most people without radio play do. Once he got Lighters out, that seemed to change.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w001ab1R1FY

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Altered the outgoing hook from Can’t Tell Me Nothing by Kanye West.

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In the Forever Freestyle Royce tells how he gets you with his disses:

Slaughterhouse dynamic is Ortiz too mature for beef
Joey kill you with his words, me I do it forcefully
Crooked is the smart one

So, if you diss Royce, your fate has already been decided.

And it is not bright.

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He could be comparing himself to Solomon because of his wisdom, which Royce often says he is very intellectual.

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Royce now has at least 2 plaques for ghostwriting, and three for his own works. Looks like his vision came to fruition.

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Using a metaphor meaning:

He thought all he had to do was start writing and he’d get big. Didn’t realize the pressure would make it much tougher.

When you pull the pin(pen) on a grenade, it needs to be released for the timer inside to become active. So he had to get people to release him first before he could “blow up.”

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Macgyver was a popular TV show in the 90’s where he made things creatively out of nothing to get out of situations.

Royce has his mind and is finding his supplies from the top. Could be a reference to the previous line where he can get help from the best like Nas or Premier.

Also, not the first time Royce has talked about Macgyver in a freestyle. Must’ve liked the show.

“Airplanes(Freestyle)”

Each lines like a computer bomb designed by MacGyver
That only can be detonated by a MacGruber

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