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Here Ricky refers to rapper Rick Ross who in January of 2009, 10 months prior to the release of this album, started a feud with 50 Cent for supposedly looking at him the wrong way at the BET Awards. Rozay fired the first shots on wax on ‘’Mafia Music‘’ released late January:

Curtis Jackson baby mama, I ain’t askin' for a cent
Burn the house down nigga, you gotta buy another
Don’t forget the gas can, jealous stupid motherfucker

Fiddy later responded in ‘’Officer Ricky (Go Head, Try Me)‘’ and this resulted in an actual rap beef that went on for a while. Here 50 states how he’ll expose him for the man he truly is and leave him incredibly wounded, regardless of where he may be.

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In short, lighten up. Eminem doesn’t necessarily want to disrespect people. He’s just expressing what is on his mind at any given moment, and dislikes the idea of anyone attempting to limit his speech.

It’s also a slight jab at the Insane Clown Posse, a rap group that wears make-up, whom he was beefing with at the time.

The Marshall Mathers LP was ranked #28 in the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame’s list of the 200 greatest albums of all time, and these lines were quoted in the issue.

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M.O. is short for modus operandi, the Latin for ‘the way I roll.’ He claims there’s no way he committed the murder he’s getting accused of as he’s just merely a drug dealer; he doesn’t do murders.

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Lactose (such as in baby formula) is used as an additive to cocaine; it acts as a diluting agent (as if using the stuff at all wasn’t bad enough), and it lets the dealer use his supply more efficiently.

50 thus being the brilliant drug dealer that he is manages to stretch his product all across the hood selling it to everyone and gaining a lot of profit.

Plastic Man, a fictional character from DC Comics, and Mister Fantastic (“Fantastic Man”), a fictional character from Marvel Comics, both have the power to stretch their bodies.

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“It’s a bird, it’s a plane, no, it’s Superman” is a line used frequently in the Superman movie and comic series, tying in with the Spiderman and Batman references, all being comic heroes. He compares the high of pure cocaine to the feeling of flying.

50 is advertising that if you’re trying to build your reputation (“trying to blow”) in the drug game (sellin' blow), that you should come to him and have him be your raw supplier. He proves his talents by stating how he even managed to sell dope to your favorite heroes. This is also a very convincing point when trying to sell to kids as they idolize them. If they do it, then why don’t you?

This must be the source of Spiderman’s spidey senses! And despite wearing a cape and modeling his image after a flying rodent, Batman actually cannot fly – unless he gets some product from 50!

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Samurai’s were Japanese security who were known for carrying very distinguished swords and swinging them fiercely at their opponents with excellent swordsmanship. A gemstar is a sharp razor blade and presumably 50 Cent is more gifted at the art of swinging sharp objects than the expert swordsmen.

As a psycho Fif would like to see the look in your eye as he watches you die. Also a reference to his track ‘’Many Men (Wish Death).

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‘’The Beast,"‘ otherwise known as President Obama’s limousine, is heavily armored, black-tinted, and extremely well-equipped. Banks is involved in so much drama in his life he takes every precautions to make sure he remains safe; and with the Obama whip there’s close to no chance of him ever getting wounded.

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People are putting on fake personas, pretending to be crazy when they aren’t. Eminem sees right through the facade and exposes the frauds. Additionally, in rap the terms “sick” and “crazy” means “good” and “talented.” Thefore, if they’re “playing sick” it means they aren’t spitting bars quite like Eminem and 50 Cent are. They’re not saying anything worthwhile, so Eminem’s going to gather the whole Aftermath crew, take out any opponent that gets in their way, then proceed to take over the whole rap game.

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50 Cent was blackballed from the industry due to being shot so he had to take matters into his own hands. He recorded a slew of mixtapes and created enough buzz for himself to get noticed by Eminem which resulted him in sealing the Shady/Aftermath deal and launch a super-career.

Now that he’s popping, everyone’s looking to him for hand-outs, but he’s not having it because they were nowhere to be seen when he was still on the come up. He’s not going to take shit from anyone because he’s a self-made man.

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Ja Rule has a clean sheet and claims to have a reputation of drug dealing and gangbanging. 50 Cent, having grown up in the same neighborhood as Ja, debunks Ja’s street-cred.

Ja was also a Jehovah’s Witness so he probably didn’t even get to trick or treat in the hood.

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