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Du dachtest Jesus wär der einzige dem Jünger folgten.. weit gefehlt!

Später wurden die K.I.Z.-Jünger gegründet. Hier bietet die Gruppe Fans die Möglichkeit, sich in Fangruppen zu formieren.

Die fanatischen Fans explodieren vor dem Studio des Gegners ->
Selbstmordattentäter

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This line was originally sampled on De La Soul’s Plug Tunin, but the line originated in Liberace: Live with the London Philharmonic

https://www.dailymotion.com/video/xjbadb_liberace-chopsticks_music

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A quote from one of 2Pac’s final interviews on tape, used in the movie Gang Related

https://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=2NkKScXckgo#t=109

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A reference to Jay-Z’s “Dirt Off Your Shoulder”.

If you feeling like a pimp, nigga, go and brush your shoulders off
Ladies is pimps too, go and brush your shoulders off

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The beat contains a sample of Canon in D by Johann Pachelbel.

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OnStar is a security and communication system in certain cars. Rick’s saying that the government has modified his OnStar to record him talking about the drug game.

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Woe is me means “I am distressed; sad; grieved.”
It already appears in the Bible:

Woe is me, that I sojourn in Mesech, that I dwell in the tents of Kedar!
Psalms 120:5:

Shakespeare also used it in Hamlet, 1602.

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He would do anything to keep his fame and fortune, including shoot and kill fake rappers/street dudes (“actors”), just as movie directors “shoot” actors with cameras

In these four lines I use five different variations on “do” and “dude” (plus “jewels” whose hard “j” sounds almost like a “d”) to create a percussive rhythm within the beat"
- Jay-Z in “Decoded”

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This line combines two separate pieces of slang – “check” means to collect, “cheddar” means money – to create a third piece of new slang – “a food inspector” – that only makes sense if you decode the first two phrases.

“Check cheddar” is an alliteration that adds force to the image.

—Jay-Z, Decoded

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