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This beat is borrowed from Dr Dre’s “Kush”, but unlike Dr Dre, Mike G is actually doing something with it because the album that Dr Dre’s “Kush” is supposed to be on “Detox” is more than a decade overdue and probably never coming out.
North American area code 707 is a Californian telephone area code which covers Napa, Sebastopol, Vallejo, Benicia, Fairfield, Santa Rosa, Petaluma, Fort Bragg, Crescent City, Eureka, Clearlake, Vacaville, Ukiah, and northwestern California.
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Screwed and chopped music was pioneered by Houston’s DJ Screw. To screw and chop a song, the DJ slows down a song and uses a play back system in key parts. DJ Screw died but his method has lived on through other Houston artists like Paul Wall and Big Pokey
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Posted on the block usually means standing around on the sidewalk. Drug dealers stand on sidewalks so it is easy to find them. Mailboxes also stand on sidewalks but are less likely to be drug dealers.
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As has happened to, among others, certain well-known Black Panther leaders
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Kweli has been a very public supporter of the Occupy movement, and here nods to the long history of active soliders and veterans involved in protest movements, something that continues in the Occupy movement
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Keeping with the setting of Northern California, he references San Jose’s NHL franchise, the Sharks.
“Life on ice”
is a classic Lupe triple entendre.
“Ice” is a term used for both Crack-cocaine, and Crystal Meth. He continues to describe the sad existence of a drug addict in the next 2 lines.
The life of a drug addict is fragile, as if their always on thin ice.
A player on the San Jose Sharks literally spends their whole career on ice. There are also hardships that hockey players experience after they retire with degenerative brain diseases, so even their lives aren’t perfect, which is a subliminal statement he is making.
For the next 3 lines, he uses Ducks and Kings, these are the 3 NHL Franchises in California
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A very clever double entendre:
1) A Tech 9 is a gun, that has cooling holes so it doesn’t overheat.
2) Northface Tech jackets have airholes to keep the wearer cool.
Not that boy or that lady, but that nigga gone crazy Lupe Fiasco – Super Cold
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Jack Nicholson’s character, Jack Torrance, dies a cold death at the end of the film version of The Shining.
Jack Torrance, like Lupe’s competitors, dies due to his inability to keep up with the “cold tracks.” Danny, like Lupe does his competitors, loses his father in the maze using cunning and cleverness.
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An igloo, is a man-made ice home made out of tightly packed ice blocks. This line is a simile; meaning, he’s not hot at all.
fun fact: there’s an isolation layer that melts and refreezes from the heat inside. basically, it is warm inside a igloo, but not for long.