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Apollo takes us back to the Golden Age with 5%‘er lingo

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Jasiri weighs in on the tragic story of Trayvon Martin with a poetic re-imagining of the night of the child’s murder

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Crook consciously uses the same taunting expression Jay-Z did in his 1999 song “Come And Get Me”, and this time joins it with a reference to the land down under

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Not the helicopter chopper, the gun type, but it’s still airlifting you by, in this case, lifting you off the ground with the force and frequency of its bullets

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The duPont Registry is “a series of print classified advertising publications specializing in luxury automobiles, real estate and yachts.” The flagship publication, to which Crooked refers here, is duPont Registry: A Buyers Gallery of Fine Automobiles. Note that the use of the word “dodge” in the first line ties into the automotive theme of the second

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Crook nods to this lyric from Biggie’s “Hypnotize”:

At my arraignment, note for the plaintiff
Your daughter’s tied up in a Brooklyn basement

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While not quite “LeBron James level” of hairline embarrassment, Crooked is telling his foes that they’re not LEGENDS and need to MOVE back

Basically, stop paying attention to shitty rappers and pay Crooked his fucking dues!

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Crook rephrases the old “I’ll sleep when I’m dead” cliche:

A cyclops that has insomnia would be attempting to sleep, but failing, leaving his one and only eye open

…not this cyclops

…this one

“Sleeping with one eye open” is also a term commonly used to refer to someone that’s paranoid. It doesn’t mean he’s literally sleeping with one of his eyes open but rather that he doesn’t ever let his guard done, even in moments people usually associate with vulnerability, like sleeping.

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Crook certainly has a thing for historic conquerers

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“Born to be the shit” is playing off the “mother’s other hole” line, meaning somebody that any rapper who thinks he was “born to be the shit” – i.e. the best rapper – is nothing compared to him and in fact was likely “born to be the shit” in a much more scatalogical sense

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