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He’s questioning rappers' motives. Is that all you want? To get fame or to get rich? What about making a change? Essentially too many rappers enter the game following a marketable formula that reaps quick profits but lacks longevity. As a result, they’re hardly individuals worth mention. Common doesn’t approve, as the next line shows.
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Although they found out how to get rich, they didn’t know how to use their riches properly. Thus they’re still bitches in Common’s eyes – weak. On top of that, these so called gangsters can’t even aim a gun properly.
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With your Hollywood stories, Common – Chi-City
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In the Dave Chappelle skit Charlie Murphy’s True Hollywood Stories, Dave reenacts one of Charlie’s experiences where Rick James hit him the face and utters the now-famous phrase “Look bitch, I’m Rick James!”. Rick James himself speaks of his behavior saying, “Cocaine is a hell of a drug!”. Com’s also calling out fakes, saying their stories are made up.
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A reference to the sitcom Sanford and Son, which is about a father and his son – Fred and Lamont Sanford respectively – that work at their antiques and junk dealership. Much like how they sold junk, many rappers sell their popular, but garbage music.
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Common is a beast on tracks, and he’s on a rampage.
Building on the previous line, “beast” is slang for the police; see the Fugees song of the same name.
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N.W.A popularized this with a song of the same name, but everyone knows hustlers hate the police.
Common gives fuck you to the informants in the same way he does to the police.
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