Put it to your mouth and squeeze it like your morning toothpaste—kill yourself Big Boi (Ft. George Clinton, Sam Chris & Too $hort) – Fo' Yo Sorrows
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If you aren’t feeling Big Boi’s raps, you should stick a gun in your mouth and squeeze the trigger like a tube of tooth paste.
Change the speed, slow it down just for the sport
Nigga, one of my favorite rappers happens to be Too $hort Big Boi (Ft. George Clinton, Sam Chris & Too $hort) – Fo' Yo Sorrows
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Too $hort is a Bay Area rapper who generally raps slow and deliberately. Since Big Boi is a fan of his, he is going to slow his flow to to match $hort’s in order to pay homage; the second verse is actually slower than the first so he stays true to this promise.
Got a P, got a pound, got some hope (Nope)
Jesse Jackson had a lil' bit of hope
For the folks on the rope, back in 1984 ('84)
Bitch! Big Boi (Ft. George Clinton, Sam Chris & Too $hort) – Fo' Yo Sorrows
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Jesse Jackson is an American civil rights activist and Baptist minister. He was close with Martin Luther King.
Don’t forget The Dream son!
Too Short is being sarcastic here. Some people have hope for a better life after starting to sell drugs. Jesse Jackson had hope in 1984 and look what happened? Well he isn’t president today…
Like the air you breathe Big Boi (Ft. George Clinton, Sam Chris & Too $hort) – Fo' Yo Sorrows
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Big Boi’s last album Idlewild faced criticism for straying too far from the OutKast formula for success, so he is getting back to the basics of hard-hitting percussion-based beats for this album.
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Clock hands essentially form a straight line when it hits 9:15.
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African Americans were taken from their homelands of Africa to the “wilderness of North America” which is a reference to the Student Enrollment Lessons nos. 3-4 of the Five Percent Nation.
Maybe this could also be a reference to the Great Migration, the movement of 2 million African Americans out of the Southern United States to the Midwest, Northeast and West from 1910 to 1930. African Americans migrated to escape racism and to seek jobs in industrial cities.
Also mentionable is the fact that in NY the prisons are up north so the voice could refer to all those locked up in prison. “Going upstate” is used as slang for “going to prison”.
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“Devils” likely refers to the white man (or fiendish people) who keep neighbourhoods oppressed.
They have power over the oppressed class and
brainwash them by lying (“kick garbage”) about drugs, girls, and money so they stay stuck in a state of unawareness, never gaining knowledge to excel in life and their environment.
“Spaced out in the staircase, performing a sting” is apt for a Killa Bee.
That and the previous line are similar to a couplet from his verse on “C.R.E.A.M” showing he did “do the same thing”:
Devil’s resort to trick (like the snake aka lucy convinced Eve to eat the forbidden fruit) in modern days we lust for chicks and dollars forgetting who we truly are dazed by pleasure
The game the staircase is where they sell drugs in the projects sometimes there for hours. To keep alert many use coca and other stimulates