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Off Juicy J’s excellent 2011 mixtape Rubba Band Business 2

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Sampled from the movie The Mack, which starred Richard Pryor.

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Referring to the nickname of Public Enemy’s Chuck D, which is The Rap Rebel

Get real Rage, you really think youre more rebellious than Chuck?

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Rage will be causing a ruckus when she pulls out her heater and starts blasting off at untrustworthy foes. Rage started the verse with a lengthy metaphor comparing her lyrical abilities to her ability to gun down some suckers.

“Wick-Wack” is probably a reference to a certain line in “My Philosophy” by Boogie Down Productions:

Rap is like a set-up, a lot of games
A lot of suckers with colorful names
I’m so-and-so, I’m this, I’m that
Huh, but they all just wick-wick-wack

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“Lyrical Gangbang” finds RBX, Kurupt, The Lady of Rage verbally attacking the track which features a breakbeat from “Damn” by the Nite-Liters and the drums from Led Zeppelin’s “When the Levee Breaks.”

Musician Colin Wolfe talked about the track:

A friend and I brought a Zeppelin record [‘When the Levee Breaks’] up to the studio for Dre to check out. He dug it and did his thing with the drums for ‘Lyrical Gangbang.’ We listened to it and I did the [synth] melody.

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“Who’s the Mack” was released as a single from Amerikkka’s Most Wanted and was the only one to have a music video. The song deals with manipulators in three different forms: a pimp, a beggar, and playboy. DJ Pooh plays all three roles in the music video.

Ice Cube provided background information on the concept of the track:

We wanted to do one of those cool, laid-back kinda songs. Do some storytelling, some preachin’ about what’s going on. Basically trying to make an analogy for a mack as a pimp or a mack as somebody who can get you to do what they want you to do. Just trying to break it down like that.

Sir Jinx added:

When I first got to New York, that was one of the tracks I ended up doing. That was really one of the Bomb Squad’s songs. But the other guys would get sleepy and leave. Me and Eric are the same, we’re techies. I was excited, I was young and there was a 24-track in front of me. That was the second single off the album. Me and Eric Sadler knocked that one out. I slid that Marvin Gaye on there and there was more live playing on that track, guys from New York.

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This is clever rhyming wordplay, referring to the popular slang phrase ‘How’s about them apples?’ – which means ‘What do you think about that?’.

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“You were on the talcum powder” actually means “you were on my balls” – talcum powder is often placed on male genitalia to prevent sweating. The woman he is referencing was, basically, sweating on him and his balls.

It could also mean that the woman had a coke habit.

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A reference to the music video for Jay-Z’s 2000 smash hit, “Big Pimpin'”, which was partially shot on a yacht. Apparently, Sean doesn’t know the difference between a boat and a yacht

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