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A third rail provides the electrical power to the subway.

This links to the 1st verse and the song title, Wrong Side of Da Tracks.

For the fresh never stale niggas off the third rail

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X means an unknown number. He could’ve also used N (which means any natural number)– the implication is obviously that it’s a lot, too much to count.

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Sounds like he’s saying

Might be one that would (would would would) do (do) that (that)
I wonder if I could (could could could) do (do) that (that)

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Sounds a bit like an old English nursery rhyme The Old Man

The original goes

This old man, he played one,
He played knick-knack on my thumb;
With a knick-knack paddywhack,
Give the dog a bone,
This old man came rolling home.

A paddy wagon, is a police van. Rolling in the patty wagon, means that the police is turning out with full protection. In Compton for example, is the police always in good preparedness, for their security.

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Dubs – w’s. West coast hand sign.

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By cocks he means male chicken. 2 cocks in 1 coop will usually fight for dominance, and for the chicken, so they don’t go together.

He’s also paraphrasing B.I.G

“Money and blood don’t mix like 2 dicks and no bitch”

And this continues previous line. DJs nowadays are playing shit, so they can’t turn W.C.’s music on. They can’t mix nowadays shit with his music

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Prior to the release of this song, Xzibit was attacked by alleged gang members in Los Angeles, and there were speculations it was over the possibility of X leaving Columbia/Sony Records and joining Eminem’s Shady Records.

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“Stacks” as in stacks of money. Also, stacks on Mac OS, an option to stack your shortcuts. In this case it’s both.

As long as his Mac is on, he’ll be making money stacks.

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Obie survived a 2005 shooting, and still has a bullet in his head as a souvenir.

An actual x-ray of O Trice’s head.

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Bottoms Up is Obie’s 3rd studio album

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