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A reference to the Broadway musical of the same name

Also known as the most used line in rap

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You know how most rappers say “your arms too short to box with god?“”. Well Heavenly figures arms are too short to box with Ghost.

Also, a play on ‘God’, a common Wu and 5% nation substitute from ‘black’ or other nicknames

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Back in the day, Busta was Tip’s protege. He also looked like this:

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This line was sampled from Eric B. & Rakim’s 1986 debut single “My Melody”:

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This album came out a few years after the death of Biggie Smalls and Tupac, at a time when many people were saying the golden age of hip-hop had come to an end. But if hip-hop really is dead, Big Boi challenges his competition to “exhume” (dig up) the body and breath new life into it, instead of simply mourning its loss.

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He’s mastered rapping, like how a martial arts masters have perfected fighting. Carries the theme of kung-fu and rapping from earlier to the Bruce Lee Line later

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Too many jiggy cats rapping about champagne (cracking Moet) and girls (macking hoes).

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He needs to up his fake thug status

He needed to take notes

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  • Fabon on 5th is one of the biggest jewelry stores in NYC. But there still aren’t enough diamonds in there to get Masta Ace icy enough for his label’s standards

  • This could also refer to clothes as in 5th Avenue in New York being a major shopping district and Iceberg being a designer clothing label

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