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The magazine itself on an AK-47 is called a “banana clip” due to how it resembles the fruit of the same name. Chimpanzees have quite an appetite for bananas, so they leave the remains of them (“clips”) everywhere.

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To “kill the beat” is a timeless hip-hop metaphor. Continuing off of the weed reference in the last line, Wayne smokes the beat (kills it), the same way that he literally smokes a blunt. And, as everyone knows, you gotta roll a blunt before you smoke it, so Wayne is already rolling (lyrically) before then

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Wayne gets philosophical here: in a shooting, who really is the one that dies? Killing somebody is as bad as killing yourself; both lives are ruined forever, it doesn’t matter who fired and who was shot

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Wayne and Phelps are both inspired by the money and weed (the other green); Michael Phelps was infamously caught smoking weed a few months before this track leaked

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Michael Phelps is a big fan of Lil Wayne (he listened to “I’m Me” quite a bit during the Olympics). Lil Wayne is a big fan of sports. Therefore, Wayne decided to do something for Michael (he also referenced him in “Ice Cream” off of the No Ceilings mixtape)

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Em took 2Pac’s audience after he died, with only a minimal swap (his skin color)

Of course, 2Pac had much more muscle-mass as well, but we won’t quibble…

This line may also be referring to how his first album, Infinite flopped, forcing him to ‘swap’ personas; turning him into Slim Shady. This is what made Pac listeners listen to his stuff.

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This metaphor alludes to Eminem’s misogynistic lyrics. Like a spider, Eminem uses webs and venom to catch women and make them his preys.

He uses the slang “hock a loogie"—which means to cough loudly and spit out phlegm—replacing the phlegm ("loogie”) with venom. This references the venomous lyrics he spits about women. The way he pronounces “hock” also sounds a lot like coughing phlegm.

Another interpretation is that he is referring to rival MCs as “women,” not an uncommon metaphor in the rap world at the time.

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“Dun” is Queensbridge slang for “son” or “homeboy.” The “Dun language” came from a friend of Prodigy and Havoc that had a speech impediment, which made him pronounce “th” and “s” sounds as “d.” Prodigy explained:

One of our mans that we grew up with named Bumpy, he used to talk kinda of crazy. He had a speech impediment, but certain things he’d say were cool to us, so it became popular and everybody started mimicking how he’d talk. It just started from there, and we called it the dun language. Everything with a ‘s’, like if he said ‘Ayo son,’ it’d be, ‘Ayo dun.’ We just started doing it, and then the whole ‘hood started doing it, and we put it in our songs – the next thing you know, you’ve got Ben Stiller and Puffy [in a video] saying, ‘Yo dun, what up.

A “Philly” refers to a Philly Blunt—a popular cigar that is gutted and used to smoke marijuana with.

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By far, the deepest song anyone has ever written about their dick

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Em feels that people are less offended by Triumph because he is a puppet and not a “real” person. In the music video, Em attempts to get out of sticky situations (such as getting arrested in the theatre) by “becoming” Triumph, but it never works

Also, it’s a metaphorical relation to how artists are felt as “mere puppet"s in the industry, although they are able to get away with stating certain things. People love it, though.

This also references Eminem’s spat with Robert Smigel, the comedian who puppeteered Triumph and mocked Em’s music career at the MTV Music Awards. This song is more or less Eminem’s response.

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