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Line from his earlier X-rated song “Talk Like Sex”

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Gambling with 50 dollar bills. Ulysses S. Grant, the 18th President of the United States, appears on the front of the United States Fifty dollar bill.

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The custom in some countries and areas of shooting guns in the air to celebrate holidays and other occasions.

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Living the life of Riley is an expression of Irish origin meaning living an easy and pleasant life.

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Blew it as in ruined it. Also, the color turquoise is a shade of blue.

Another possible reference, although a lot more obscure, is that of Operation Turquoise which ultimately did not work as planned, having its cover blown by the Hutus.

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Puff’s hometown. Since this song is about coming home, it’s a little reference to coming back to his true home.

Actually, he is from a NY suburb – though he was born in Harlem, he wasn’t brought up there. Harlem probably sounds more gangsta to Puff.

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Only the rich reap the benefits of health care. If you cant afford to get yourself fixed up then you are left in the state you are in.

While people with money or insurance go to the hospital to get fixed, the poor find a way to heal with what God gave us.

‘Man a heal dem broken bones in the bush with the wet mud’ refers to traditional medicine in Africa (‘in the bush’) where the medicine man sets broken bones using wet mud rather than by more modern methods.

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Skate Mental is a manufacturer of skateboard decks. A “truck smack” (or “truck bust”) is when you hit someone with one of the trucks of your skateboard. Earl plans to hit someone one the head, or “temple,” while using a double entendre of the popular child actress Shirley Temple. She got her start in the business at the age of three, and has since become the most well-known child actress of all time.

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Things we hold as a certain truth for one generation may suddenly be disproved, however you would be ridiculed by those who feel the current standard is correct, i.e., when Galileo suggested the earth was round he was ridiculed and laughed at, and hence, “if the shape change again….start laugh”, he’s saying if someone comes and says it’s no longer round, current science would laugh him away

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Dick Cheney was the Vice President of United States at the time this song was done. He was also the CEO of Halliburton from 1995-2000. Halliburton is a giant corporation that builds oil and gas pipelines.

In the 1998 Congressional testimony, a corporate officer of UNOCAL testified:

The only other possible route is across Afghanistan, which has of course its own unique challenges. The country has been involved in bitter warfare for almost two decades, and is still divided by civil war. From the outset, we have made it clear that construction of the pipeline we have proposed across Afghanistan could not begin until a recognized government is in place that has the confidence of governments, lenders, and our company.

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