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After Action Bronson serves the lamp chop, all four M.A.R.S. emcees will have “eat a rapper” for desert, this means they are ready to rap and murder emcees on the mic

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Karma kar·ma/ˈkärmə/

  • Informal good or bad luck, viewed as resulting from one’s actions

  • What goes around comes around

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Big Pun died from a heart attack at age 28. He was a very good friend of Fat Joe and a member of Terror Squad

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Referring to the Teflon Don, John Gotti

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Rapper Shyne was signed to Bad Boy Records in the late 90s. In 2001 he was sentenced to ten years in prison. He was released in 2009 after serving over 9 years of a 10 year sentence

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To Blaze means to fire or shoot.

The ROC is a short nickname to Roc-A-Fella Records. Just Blaze is a producer who in the beginning of his career was affiliated with Roc-A-Fella.

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The Desert Eagle is a large-framed gas-operated semi-automatic pistol. It a powerful sidearm that holds seven rounds of .357 ammunition. It has maximum ammunition of 36 rounds.

Fat Joe got guns that are better than that

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According to the credit on the album back cover, both Dr. Dre’s verses were written by Eminem. His predilection for multi-syllable rhymes, irregular rhythms and phrasing as well as his delivery is evident in Dre’s lines.

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The hooks are performed by a guy who goes by Phish – not to be confused with the band Phish.

He’s not listed as a featured artist. In the album liner he’s simply credited for “background vocals”. Perhaps this was done to avoid paying him so much – still seems like great work if you can get it.

It’s tough to find info on this Phish guy. A fansite for the band Phish claims the Phish on this song is an “NYC hip-hop artist” who also performed on “Gin & Juice”. His real name seems to be Stephan/Stephon/Stefan/Stefon Harris.

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Hittman spoke about writing this verse in an interview:

How did that song [“Fuck You”] come about and what was your process writing for Dre in general?

With that one, it’s funny, and this is how (Dre) works. He doesn’t write rhymes but he has insight, he’ll sit with you and tell you. He might throw out a bar, then you start writing and he’ll veto it, he would yea or nay it until the verse was to his liking, and that’s how “Fuck You” was written. He was like “Hitt, this gotta come in and fucking kill.” I followed a pattern, and once he heard “I just want to fuck bad bitches,” next came “all the nights I never had bitches,” and he was just like “yeah, keep going!” I wrote that in like 15 minutes and what’s crazy about it, he memorized it there and spit it, he didn’t even take the paper with him.

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