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Is this what a Reasonable Doubt Nas collabo would have sounded like? Could this have been the record that changed hip-hop history, diverting one of the longest feuds rap has seen? Who knows. All we know is that this is actually a Shaquille O'Neal joint called “No Love Lost”, featuring Jay-Z and Lord Tariq, Cory Gunz’s pop’s main man from back in the day. Somebody (possibly the Trackmasters, who worked closely with Nas at the time) edited out Big Shaq and either got Nas to spit a new verse or synched a previously unheard Nas verse off the bench to create a bootleg piece of vinyl renamed “Analyze This.” After careful analysis, we can safely claim it’s pretty damn good.

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This is the title of a song by G-Unit that was aimed at Ja Rule. The song is originally known as “Ecstasy” and can be found on their album Beg for Mercy

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This song is the remix to the original song “Mafia Music

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Game will spend moeny to take a woman out to the hotel. Hyatt Hotels Corporation is an American international company and operator of hotels

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Game is finally famous and he belongs to the Aftermath team that house superstars such as Eminem and Dr. Dre. When he’s at a club, he’s there to see some ass (like Beyoncé) and not to be questioned about Eminem or Dr. Dre.

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Nature was a small-time thief, who is he to challenge a Don like Nas?

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Obie Trice and Nate Dogg teams up with Redman, Lloyd Banks and Jadakiss for the official remix of Obie’s third single “The Set Up” from Cheers

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Crockett and Tubbs are characters from American television crime drama series Miami Vice. The two charctwers are portrait by Don Johnson and Philip Michael Thomas as two Miami police detectives working undercover.

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Adapted from Snoop Doggy Dogg’s “Doggy Dogg World” intro

It’s like everywhere I look, and everywhere I go
I’m hearin motherfuckers tryin to steal my flow

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Nas alludes here that what other rappers has done to hip hop is a nightmare. As a self proclaimed King of New York, Nas shares his disappointment in the state of hip hop at the time (circa 2002). Shots are also taken here to such labels as Roc-A-Fella and Bad Boy who were heavily involved in diminishing the sound of New York hip hop.

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