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Mr. Bigg buys kilograms of cocaine for $12,500. He could sell it at $400 per ounce (and make a tidy $1600 profit per kilo), but instead he cooks up some crack rocks and sells it at $650 per ounce, making a cool $8600 per kilo

No wonder a savvy businessman like Mr. Bigg is so wealthy

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The Elanor Roosevelt House, given its location in Bed-Stuy, is a housing project

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Not content with letting this line be a throwaway reference to the R&B artist Keith Sweat, Andre throws in a weed reference for good measure. “Keith” sounds like kief, which can get all over your teeth if you smoke enough of it.

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Axl takes Leibnizian optimism to its rational conclusion: if we’re living in the best of all possible worlds, why bother worrying?

It’s an extension of the carefree, don’t care about anything but self attitude that GnR was so known for in the early days. They only lived for a good time. Responsibility, commitments, work, other people meant nothing to them. Therefore they didn’t worry about any of it.

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It’s a reference to his indifference to quibbling. He COULD’VE made more money, but because of his own success, he paid it forward. He also understands all of the evilness that his actions have caused so this is his view of ‘giving back’.

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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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50 Cent and your impressionable youngster will drink beer and watch movies together, but soon 50 Cent will have him shooting crackheads and stealing their double cheeseburgers like O-Dog in Menace II Society.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C8lRjXf2IK0

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People who specifically disclaim their ability to be role models usually are not good role models (see Charles Barkley).

While kids who follow Chuck’s example might throw people through windows, kids who follow 50 Cent’s example will fire .380 caliber hollow-point bullets.

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Vacaville is a city allegedly populated by tweekers and located in the northeastern Bay Area of California. Too $hort lived there for a spell, presumably, as did Cindy Sheehan

He must have woken up in the south side of Vacaville, because that’s where a state prison (Solano) is located

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The use of “colitas,” – literally meaning “little tails” in Spanish – desert, and mission bell are all evocative of deserts and the area’s Spanish influences. Don Felder described the line in an interview:

The colitas is a plant that grows in the desert that blooms at night, and it has this kind of pungent, almost funky smell. Don Henley came up with a lot of the lyrics for that song, and he came up with colitas. When we try to write lyrics, we try to write lyrics that touch multiple senses, things you can see, smell, taste, hear. “I heard the mission bell,” you know, or “the warm smell of colitas,” talking about being able to relate something through your sense of smell. Just those sort of things. So that’s kind of where “colitas” came from.

The word is widely rumored to be Mexican slang for marijuana, but none of the band members have addressed this interpretation. However, Glenn Frey told the SF Chronicle in 2003:

It [Colitas] means little tails, the very top of the plant. That was a dark, strange period of my life."

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