We the realest Kanye West (Ft. Beanie Sigel, Freeway & Uncle Murda) – Can't Tell Me Nothing (R.O.C. Remix)

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First you take a brick of Jay, a brick of 'Ye
Couple quarters of Freeway, an ounce of Beans
Then you kill 'em with the flow Kanye West (Ft. Beanie Sigel, Freeway & Uncle Murda) – Can't Tell Me Nothing (R.O.C. Remix)

Continuing the rap-as-drug metaphor, you “cook up” the Roc-a-fella “package” by taking bits of the team’s best talent — Jay, Freeway, Beanie, and Kanye

The “brick of ‘Ye” contains a pun-within-the-metaphor, as it can also be heard as “a brick of yay” — i.e. yayo, or cocaine (“brick” is slang for a kilo of coke)

Eminem has similar lines in Patiently Waiting.

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A verse is a ounce, a album's a brick -- now it's time for traffic game
Y'all lame, I am the product
Hotter than lava, they wonder how this Roc-a-fella package came Kanye West (Ft. Beanie Sigel, Freeway & Uncle Murda) – Can't Tell Me Nothing (R.O.C. Remix)

Hey Freeway — there are similarities between the rap game and the crack game? Thanks for being the umpteenth rapper to point that out

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But the head I be getting got me chilling
Got a nigga like, let me focus on these millions, man Kanye West (Ft. Beanie Sigel, Freeway & Uncle Murda) – Can't Tell Me Nothing (R.O.C. Remix)

Yeah, oral sex always makes us think about money too, Murda! We have so much in common…

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Free At Last on the way, so clear 'em out my lane Kanye West (Ft. Beanie Sigel, Freeway & Uncle Murda) – Can't Tell Me Nothing (R.O.C. Remix)

Freeway’s excellent (and highly underrated) second album was called Free At Last

Likely a nod to the final line of MLK Jr.’s “I Have a Dream” speech:

Free at last, free at last
Thank God Almighty, we are free at last

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The realest nigga alive Kanye West (Ft. Beanie Sigel, Freeway & Uncle Murda) – Can't Tell Me Nothing (R.O.C. Remix)

Others might beg to differ with Sigel’s assessment

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Gangster? I don't buy it -- you can't sell me nothing Kanye West (Ft. Beanie Sigel, Freeway & Uncle Murda) – Can't Tell Me Nothing (R.O.C. Remix)

A quick pun on “buy” as in “believe” and also as in “purchase”

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Copped the drop-top 'Rossa Young Jeezy – Death Before Dishonor (B.M.F. Freestyle)

The Ferrari Testarossa convertible:

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In reality, your boy went to Mecca, came back
And said that I would never rap again Kanye West (Ft. Beanie Sigel, Freeway & Uncle Murda) – Can't Tell Me Nothing (R.O.C. Remix)

After the splitting up of the label, Free, a devout Muslim, went through a spiritual crisis that almost caused him to give up rapping in order to honor his faith. This crisis included, as he mentions here, a pilgrimage to the holy city of Mecca. Luckily for the fans of weird flow everywhere, he didn’t follow through on that threat

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I had a dream that Jay and Dame was back together
And in that second, everything was back the same Kanye West (Ft. Beanie Sigel, Freeway & Uncle Murda) – Can't Tell Me Nothing (R.O.C. Remix)

The “I had a dream that…” opening mirrors the first verse of Kanye’s original version of this song, except that Freeway makes it about the splitting up of Roc-a-fella

Taking someone else’s verse structure and changing it to be about the Roc breakup is a trick Free would use again

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