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Referring to 50 Cent’s G-Unit sneaker deal with Reebok

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Sammy Gravano, Curtis “50 Cent” Jackson and Alberto “Alpo” Martinez belongs in the same place since they are all snitches

  1. Sammy “The Bull” Gravano was an underboss for the Gambino crime family and John Gotti’s right hand man. After the FBI played tapes of Gotti disrespecting Gravano, Gravano decided to turn in 1991 and testify against Gotti. After joining the Witness Protection Program, Gravano would go back to his old ways, running an ecstasy ring in Arizona.
  2. In an interview broadcast on BET, 50 Cent claimed that he had first hand information that the record label, Murder, Inc., was started with drug money. Two weeks later, the FBI arrested and brought charges against several figures tied to the label best known for producing rap star Ja Rule.
    50 Cent had put out a song named “Ghetto Qu'ran” in which he was exposing Kenneth Supreme’s criminal activities
  3. Alberto “Alpo” Martinez was a drug dealer from Harlem who made an obscene amount of money selling heroin and cocaine on the whole East coast. Along with fellow drug dealers, AZ and Rich Porter, Alpo would make a name for himself due to his expensive clothes, jewelry and violence in the 1980s. In 1992, he was arrested in Washington D.C. for selling drugs. After sentenced to life, he testified against the D.C. enforcer, Wayne Perry, in exchange for a lighter sentence.

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Rat is slang for a snitch and Jake is slang for police

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“Snitch niggas” & “bitch niggas” are all the same, because they are fake. They pretend to be someone they ain’t:

  • Snitchs are nice to your face, but when you’re not around – they dob on you. Then when you see them later – they will act like best friends, because they are scared, they don’t want you to know.

  • “Bitch nigga” will be nice to your face, but when you ain’t around – he will talk about you. The “bitch nigga” will say things like that he will bash you, he hates you, he’s going to kill you, but when he see’s you – he’s nice to you, why? Because he is scared!

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Scareface puns, and references Kanye West’s song – “Through The Wire”. He also makes a simile with it.

Since theses people are snitches – they be talking threw a wire. A wire, or microphone is a thing police make you wear when you’re undercover and working for them.

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James Prince is the founder of Rap-a-Lot Records the label that signed Scarface

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Although the song is dedicated to those twho snitch (snitch niggas). Scarface wants the real ones to help him with the chorus

I never snitch, I never lie
I’m not a bitch, I rather die
Can’t nothin change me, not even time
I make the money, money don’t make me a dime

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Russell Simmons and Rick Rubin are the founders of Def Jam Recordings, one of the most popular hip hop record labels.

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Addressing these cocky rappers, KRS was here when you were here and he will still be here after you are gone. He career will last longer than yours

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Nasir Jones aka Nas has sold 7 platinum and multi-platinum albums and 2 gold albums

RIAA certification
Illmatic – platinum
It Was Written – 2x platinum
I Am.. 2x platinum
Nastradamus – platinum
Stillmatic – 2x platinum
God’s Son – platinum
Street’s Disciple – platinum
Hip Hop Is Dead – gold
Untitled – gold
Life Is Good – TBA

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