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Glen Rice was a three-time NBA All-Star while playing for the Charlotte Hornets.

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An “ill” car no doubt:

Fun fact, while Mike doesn’t own a ‘63 Impala, he does own one from 1961 that he purchased from Big Boi of OutKast, a story which he recounted to Adult Swim:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TqxDfY_JeVE

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Word play with grandma as grammy and Grammy as Grammy.

The Grammy referred to is the one Outkast received for The Whole World, which featured Killer Mike.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=udmTfK6_aM8

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A reference to Wu-Tang’s song Shame on a Nigga, which O.D.B. pretty much did solo.

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Many artists these days use words such as “gay, fag, faggot, and homo” in their music to refer to people they don’t like by emasculating them. In this example, these words are rarely used to refer directly to homosexuals but usually to people they think less of. Macklemore points out the problems with this later in the verse.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iBOsjO4APSw#t=1142

Brand Nubian MC Lord Jamar later issued an arguably homophobic response to this song on VladTV.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uYGs4nP4Lvk

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The first few lines describe social conditioning through media, especially disposable media such as Hollywood blockbusters and tabloid scandals. What’s important is to note the use of “empty”. In this instance, “empty” is a reference to the minds of the American public.

We want them to fill our heads with useless junk, because it ultimately fulfills an opiate-like need to maintain our own ignorance.

To quote one of Rage Against the Machine’s spiritual successors, Immortal Technique:

Nepotism is the gold in the conductor’s connection and ignorance is the prison that the people are kept in

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According to Ja, if Tupac were alive they would be friends.
Eminem disagrees.

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Sample from the 70s kung-fu flick Five Deadly Venoms.

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Biggie was a fan of the Wu-Tang Clan, a legendary hip-hop group from Staten Island.
Of course the reverse may not have been true at the time for a couple of members of the Wu-Tang Clan.

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Dropped the mixtape, that shit sounded like an album

Adam’s The Browncoats Mixtape (available for free on his website) was very well received by Internet fans (as well as a massive love letter to the Joss Whedon show Firefly).

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