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Welcome back to Vietnam, California Dr. Dre (Ft. Snoop Dogg) – 187um (Deep Cover Remix)
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He is saying the streets of his city are just as violent as the Vietnam war.

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With a air that still smells like roses from André 3000 Lupe Fiasco – The Champ is Here (Freestyle)
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I Know you like to thank your ishhhhh don’t stank but lean a little closer see roses really smell like poo pooo

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Like a broke stock broker and a sidewalk
Y'all niggas ain't fly as me
That's why I defy physics and y'all niggas collidin, peace Lupe Fiasco – The Champ is Here (Freestyle)
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If you listen to the song you hear a man jumping off a building committing suicide. This is a reference to the Great Depression in which broke stock brokers jumped off of buildings after they lost everything

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And they itchin to come up out the magazine like the posters that unfold Lupe Fiasco – The Champ is Here (Freestyle)
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magazines hold bullets and pop up magazines that display images when you turn the page

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There’s also a pun on “Itchin' to come”, as the type of magazine he’s referring to is most likely something like Playboy where readers unfold the centerfold.

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But this my gang
FNF crew, first and fifteen Lupe Fiasco – The Champ is Here (Freestyle)
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Lupe’s label, First and Fifteenth, contains many of his friends in the rap game. The label’s name comes from the two most important dates in the hood: the first and fifteenth days of the month, when the welfare and other governmental checks are sent out.

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Sandals made of chrome, Lupe Fiasco (Ft. Diddy) – Angels (Remix)
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Sandals refers to feet the rims on a car can be looked at as the feet of the car.

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They say I'm all about murder murder and kill kill Nas – Sly Fox
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Fox has criticized Hip Hop and Nas for overly violent lyrics.
He has been criticized for the song “Shoot´em Up”:

Shoot ‘em up, just shoot 'em up, what?
(Kill-kill-kill, murder-murder-murder)

This is an example of interviews where he has been criticized:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eKBjbgqLLfc

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Oh really? No rally needed, I'll tie you up Nas – Sly Fox
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While Nas did have a rally against Fox News, it happened a week after this album came out.
I think in the context of the verse, he’s saying that if O'Reilly really means all that shit he talks, they can handle it on a street level.

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I don't prophesize, I promise you Lupe Fiasco – I'm Beamin'
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Prophets usually promise a lot of stuff, so, you get what Lupe did there ;)

prophesize= profit size as in sell out just to make money, and stop making awesome lyrical songs

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Lupe’s real name is Wasalu Muhammad Jaco.

This line is a double entendre. He’s also saying that he is far from the moral standards of the Prophet Muhammad (pbuh) because he mixes the Ferrari and the consciousness.

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