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The Allahu Akbar is an Islamic expression of faith.

God is [the] great[est]

The phrase can take many different contexts within the Muslim world, but regardless, it is usually used to praise the Allah. Royce is trying to get the people to follow him with great passion, to the extent that people hold to their religion.

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Ironically he had a line in an earlier track “New Money” where he said:

Gentleman’s bet, no gentleman ‘bout this

Apparently he has changed his tone throughout the album.

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He’s saying that beefs are so weak nowadays that it makes him upset.

Sort of like a recent French Montana and 50 Cent feud, that started off as beef then they just resolved it almost immediately, that’s what Royce is not into.

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Reference to the first track: Gun Harmonizing on this album Street Hop. The first line says:

Verbalizing my theme murder

By this point it should be just implied that it is in fact murder music.

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At this time Royce Da 5'9 was ghostwriting for Diddy. So it would make sense that he’d be in the booth with him, to go over the songs.

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Like in the movie Scream he just uses the phone calls as an intimidation and distraction.

He’ll actually have someone else do the killing for him too. Since the boss shouldn’t have to get his hands dirty.

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Reference to 50 Cent’s song Window Shopper.

Just meaning that he isn’t willing to spend very much money on your bitch to make you jealous.

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A gentleman’s bet is when there is no particular wager. Just bragging rights mostly, but Royce doesn’t want that, he wants more.

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Wordplay on magazines, he references The Source and XXL as magazines, but Royce is a gangster rapper. So he is alluding to the fact that he is the king of the magazines that he loads in his guns.

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Papoose was on the original ‘08 Cover of XXL’s, freshman List. He’s transitioning it to talk about dominating the magazine circuit.

He could also be talking about how him and his Shady Records family, “wore it” as in looked really well on it.

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