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Crook here puns on MMA fighting, which stands for “mixed martial arts”

Here, “mixed martial artists” turns into DJs “mix[ing] Marshall (as in Marshall "Eminem” Mathers, head of Slaughterhouse’s label Shady Records) artists"

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Penicillin is an antibiotic that kills diseases, but is also understood in this line as “pen-is-illin”, due to the “sick"ness of Crooked’s writing

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Kool G. Rap is a rapper who was a pioneer in the polysyllabic flows so beloved by spitters like the Slaughterhouse guys. He has a 1989 song called “Poison”

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Porn star Mr. Marcus, who has lately been turning up a lot in rap lyrics, is famous for wearing baseball caps in a lot of his scenes, usually an LA Dodger one:

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This line, which like many of these lyrics appeared in this earlier freestyle, punningly compares the “four-headed monster” of Slaughterhouse, who are all monstrously good rappers

to a combination of model/TV host Tyra Banks' big forehead:

and Monster Energy Drink

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Crook lays down the law with a show-closing a capella during Slaughterhouse’s set at Austin’s 2012 South by Southwest festival

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White rhino is a “fast-growing, near-pure” strain of marijuana.

This is also a great contrast to the black elephant mentioned above.

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Shakespeare’s play Julius Ceasar contains the line

Cowards die a thousand deaths. The valiant taste of death but once.

Tupac put his own spin on the idea in his song “If I Die 2Nite”:

A coward dies a thousand deaths
A soldier dies but once

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Mike compares the Biblical burning bush

to another kind of plant that he frequently sets aflame:

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Malcolm X’s road from criminal and drug addict to political leader is well-documented, including in his own autobiography. X’s presence in this lyric is also a callback to the idea of someone’s words gaining importance when they die tragically, as he did

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