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A slick pun here. “Peace” as in the opposite of violence, a la Ghandi’s famed philosophy of peace and non-violence. Also, “at peace with it”, meaning to feel okay about something, in this case the necessity of carrying a gun. In addition, “piece” is slang for “gun”

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Crooked and the rest of Slaughterhouse, along with Yelawolf and label head Eminem, wowed the crowd at the 2011 B.E.T. awards with this group freestyle (Crooked’s foot is far r, below)

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Crook kills yet another freestyle, this time for the Los Angeles Leakers. Notable for the awesome Basquiat reference

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Get it? “Cold” boss/“Cole” boss?

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Crook, like his pal Joe Budden, has a thing against played-out similes and metaphors

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This intro comes from Crooked’s recent freestyle over Drake’s “The Motto”

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Justin Credible and sourMILK are the two DJs who make up the Los Angeles Leakers. Below, the duo with J. Cole

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Crook compares his group Slaughterhouse to hip-hop’s favorite painter, Jean-Michel Basquiat. Due to recent mentions by Jay-Z, Kanye, Rick Ross, and a seeming obsession with the artist by producer Swizz Beatz, who even made a Basquiat-inspired shoe line, the 80’s graf-writer-turned-painter’s cache is at an all-time high

Crooked, as is his wont, takes things one step further by referencing not just Basquiat, but his early, pre-fame days as a graffiti writer, when he worked in an influential two-person graf collective called SAMO with artist Al Diaz. The duo wrote elliptical but poetic phrases all over New York City

While doing all this, Crook manages to throw in a near homophone, rhyming “same ol'” and “SAMO”

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