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Has a previous mix tape called Freebasing with Kevin Bacon.

The act of smoking a drug freebase. “Freebase” refers to the non-salt form of a drug. Which means you have to smoke it to get high. Can’t inject, swallow, inhale, etc.

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It get’s cold in the shower if you only have 1 cheap water heater on and another water source is running.

Also symbolism that these other rappers didn’t have it rough growing up. Royce went from rags to riches, while the rest are just faking their hardships so they can ride to the top.

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One of the songs off of Royce Da 5'9" mix tape One Mic presented by DJ Tiger. Featuring Prodigy of Mobb Deep, this song is a mix from Royce’s verse on a song by Phat Kat, Elzhi and him called Cold Steel. Then Prodigy has a verse from Rare Species (Modus Operandi) laid down and sped up over this J Dilla beat, to create a really good track.

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Dizzy Wright is notorious for putting in that work. In 2012 he did 2 nation wide tours, one world wide tour. Put out a mix tape, an album, and a EP.

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Monsters In My Head is a song slaughterhouse did on Crooked I mix tape Psalm 82:v6 which he referenced since he was talking about Crook’s C.O.B crew in the previous line.

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He probably did ghostwrite for your idol already. He’s known for ghostwriting for Dr. Dre on The Message and Diddy

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Oven is slang for gun, but here it could also just have a literal translation. Which could make it mean either:

  1. He hit’s up the house with his guns and then has to duck out by staying at his cousin’s since it will surely not be safe to stay at home because of cops and rivals.

  2. He was so broke growing up that they had to heat up their house with an oven. So he just spent the night with his cousins.

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He’s been to Long Beach with Crooked and seen the lifestyle. Knows he’s not afraid to squeeze the trigger on you.

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The sample is from Lou Rawls – Lifetime Monologue and it’s the first line in the monologue.

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Saigon said in the interview that he doesn’t think anyone in Slaughterhouse can make a hit record. But Royce has already done that through ghost writing and has the plaques to prove it.

Now, he has another couple for Saigon to bow before.

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