If you got a chance to walk away, then do it Xzibit – The Foundation
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Xzibit knows that you can’t be afraid to use your gun if you get in a situation that requires it. But he also has seen too many of his niggas die because they couldn’t let themselves walk away from an argument. If you wanna make it far in this life you need to choose your battles.
Earlier in the song he advised his son to always be strapped, just in case some crooked cops try to shoot him.
When your neck is on the line stand ground then bust
In God we trust but just in case keep it loaded and locked
Ready to rock
Then shake the spot
The foundation
So the message is to stay strapped but to not feel pressure to use the gun.
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Like a drought, but you gon' get this rain like it's May weather Big Sean (Ft. Jay Electronica & Kendrick Lamar) – Control
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Nigga you're barely livin', don't you got sickle cell?
See me have a seizure on stage, you ain't feelin' well, hell 2Pac (Ft. C-Bo & Tech N9ne) – 187 on a Hook (youtube remix)
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Shots fired at Mobb Deep here, who Pac had mad beef with after they released a song, “L.A., L.A.” which was a response to Snoop Dogg’s “New York, New York.” Pac took offense to this to during the height of the East vs. West coast feuding.
The choice to make fun of Prodigy for having sickle cell disease points to the personal nature of this dispute.
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The llama is a brand of gun that Keef and the GBE boyz favor. See Love Sosa:
I ain’t with the drama
You can meet my llama
The wordplay here is with the pseudo-homophone of Llama and Lamar, the latter being TDE rapper Kendrick Lamar’s middle name.
But nobody saw when I motherfuckin smoked him
Roped him, sharpened up the shank then I poked him
357 Smith & Wesson mean scoped him, roped him Twain Gotti (Ft. Mr. Baker) – Ride Out
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I'm 7-30, that's twenty left, but no twenties on it King Los – Becoming King Intro
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Los is riding around in his 750 BMW with three chicks and is listening to music by E-40.
The term being 7-30, relates back to the name of a psychiatric evaluation form at New York State prison facilities.
Big L schooled us all to the meaning in his joint Ebonics (Criminal Slang):
730 is 20 less than the 750 BMW he’s driving. he mentioned in the first line, but he isn’t riding on 20 inch rims. This could also refer to him only having a 20 mile range left in his car because he’s riding on fumes.
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50 Cent was shot 9 times, and by all means could have and should have died. 50 frames this by saying that someone tried to send him to heaven, but when he was at the gates they sent him back down to Earth to live some more instead.
There’s a famous saying that “only the good die young”, which some people may also recognize from the Billy Joel song of the same name. 50 jokingly tells us that he was not eligible to die at such a young age, because he was never a good kid. He’s shot people, he’s been shot, he’s sold drugs. Some would consider him a rotten apple.
Fiddy would later write in his autobiography From Pieces to Weight that after getting shot and not dying, it dawned on him that he might have a purpose in life.
This could also be a reference to one of Fiddy’s earlier songs called The Good Die Young.
he did die and the doctors brought him back not “ he should’ve died”
“My attitude is gangsta, so I stay in some beef” is the actual line and it simply means 50 cents attitude in general is gangsta and this is naturally results in him being in constant beef in the streets, because he’s always stepping on people’s toes and violating others.