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Jarren starts out his second verse with another reference to Outkast and their album ATLiens.

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Jarren Benton loves Outkast and mentions how he came up from listening to Southernplayalisticadillacmusik

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A nod to the beginning lines of Nas’s verse on “Verbal Intercourse”, which was a track on Raekwon’s debut album Only Built 4 Cuban Linx.

It’s a classic album. If you haven’t checked it out, go listen to it

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Hopsin says he could use profanity in Church and sacred/religious grounds, as according to him, it wouldn’t matter – the past lines have been about how it makes perfect sense if he weren’t a real being. Many things he had done for the religion would be considered worthless, and the requirements created by religions would no longer matter to him. He could do the exact opposite of how everything is taught in Christianity, and is therefore opposing religion in these lines.

Creating havoc and mocking beliefs/religion is very similar to this man:

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People be shooting their guns in the club like its the war in Iraq…

Or the “shooting” could be a metaphor for “popping bottles” and “dropping ass”.

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Here is an explanation from The Alchemist of how this song had been done…
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-G5dO0mNwiM&t=7m29s
(He talks about what he thinks of the beat, how they picked the beat, and talks about Kool G being in the studio)

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In this interview The Alchemist talks about how Kool G Rap wrote this rap…
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-G5dO0mNwiM&t=9m58s

Kool G Rap won Hip Hop Quotable of the month for this verse in The Source magazine.

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This line is sampled from Organized Konfusion’s track “Bring It On”
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=33DM2i1Hv70&t=30s
This is also a must listen album

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He said that his album Knock Madness what coming out soon but he didn’t release any material for the longest time. It had a few setbacks.

Hopsin tweeted regarding the situation:

https://twitter.com/hopsin/statuses/401035872688013312

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Hopsin has been hyping his new Knock Madness album for the past 3 years since the release of his last album RAW which was released in 2010 under his label Funk Volume.

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