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Today, record sales determine if you are good or not. Canibus doesn’t agree with this, he believes your ability as an emcee should determine where you stand. You can have all the fans in the world, you can move an absurd amount of units, but all of that means nothing if you cannot rap well.

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Doing business with dirty (corrupted) people will also get you dirty. However, Bis goes to extreme lengths to ‘prevent catching germs’.

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Referencing his 2002 album Mic Club

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MJ-12 stands for Majestic-12

Since their objectives/experiments were all done for control or had malicious intentions, the group isn’t very “Majestic” at all.

A good description of it can be found in Carl Sagan’s The Demon Haunted World (page 90-92)

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People in today’s industry are pretending to be MC’s, (Master of Ceremonies) when in reality they aren’t. Canibus is far more reputable & skilled in the rap game.

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Often times when a rapper is in the game for a long time & continuously puts out bodies of work, they suffer from inspiration loss. They end up rehashing material, become dull & eventually don’t have anything of value to say any longer but still put out music. You gotta know when to bow out gracefully.

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His nose does look pretty weird from the side, even more weird from the front.

But R.I.P. to the King of Pop.

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“Round the outside” is square dance move so it’s called out frequently in square dance songs.

In the 2002 song Square Dance, Eminem tweaked Canibus by quoting the phrase “round the outside.”

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Some people tend to get philosophical when under the influence of drug paraphernalia.

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In ‘97 Canibus came onto the scene doing features, he became very known for outshining almost anyone when put on a track as a feature. Notable '97 features include Uni-4-Orm, Making a Name for Ourselves & Desperados.

Technically though, Canibus has been around since ‘93, he just wasn’t as known then.

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