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What’s the point of being successful if you can’t help those who need it?

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Beef isn’t what’s being said in songs on the radio

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The Hot 97 Summer Jam is where Jay-Z took his first shots at Nas by performing a verse from Takeover. Mos Def is re-iterating that’s not what beef is.

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A pine box refers to a coffin. So when babies don’t have mothers because they are dead or in jail, that’s a real problem.

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When the unemployed can’t find jobs, some turn to crime as a last resort. And then they need guns to succeed at that job.

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Nas and Jay-Z’s infamous battle isn’t beef. In this song, Mos is saying that beef is more than petty rap battles, it is the problems in the world.

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K.R.I.T is thankful that cops never caught him with drugs in his car while he was in the car with his family

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His family didn’t encourage him to rap. And when life got harder, they actually discouraged him, telling him to go get a job instead.

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A reference to Pac’s Keep Ya Head Up

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Jay shouts out Philadelphia, one of the stops on his long journey from New Orleans to New York (also mentioned in Exhibit C).

Big Willie is a 90’s term for a person who’s “Ballin”, rich, or doing it big. Here it’s also a nod to Philly’s favourite pop rapper Will Smith, who killed off the phrase with his album Big Willie Style.

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