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Dirty Harry is a 1971 American crime thriller film directed by Don Siegel, the first in the Dirty Harry series. Clint Eastwood plays the title role, in his first outing as San Francisco Police Department Inspector “Dirty” Harry Callahan.

Dirty Harry set the style for a whole genre of police films.

He is announcing the death of a movie character that is known for being a good killer, and saying that you should witness the life of his son, someone that should be like him, so he’s gonna kill this track.

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2Pac says in this line that yes, when someone loved dies is shitty. But always stay positive, think they’re in a better place.

We hope you’re in a better place Pac.

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50 Cent signed the Shady/Aftermath/Interscope deal in 2002, a year prior to his debut, and that skyrocketed him into major stardom.

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“Trials and tribulations” mean troubles and events that cause suffering, what Kendrick says in this line is that he has struggled and he still has to struggle to pursue his dreams.
He could also be saying that while at the outside it looks easy to be a rapper, it’s actually a stressing job that requires a lot of hard work and talent, and people don’t appreciate that.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZCd_zq0He7k

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The sample for this track is Loss Config by Zodiac:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kV4rm1LOaGI

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When a rappers is fake, it means that he doesn’t care about the hip-hop culture, he only makes it for the money.

Being printed is copying the style of another rapper, being unoriginal, what most rappers do nowadays.

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He is asking rappers to make a medical call since he cut them.

“Cuts” is a metaphor saying that his bars could injure rappers.

A gauze is a weave structure in which the warp yarns are arranged in pairs and are crossed before and after each weft yarn keeping the weft firmly in place.

Saying that they need to be wrapped in gauze means that they will have to recover from the “injuries”.

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Bruce Banner becomes the Hulk after extreme exposure to gamma radiation. Denace in this line might be saying that he has been exposed to something that got him powers, and it’s out of control.

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Rap is the music, hip-hop is the culture, with this line Sulaiman says that he now is part of this culture. It’s his was of life and people don’t see that.

Hip Hop is more than music. Hip Hop is a state of mind. Rap is what we do, Hip Hop is what we live. -KRS-One

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He has friends that are loyal, and he has other friends selling “packs”.
Packs it’s a a synonym for “g-pack” which is a term for 50 half gram vials of cut heroin, worth $1000 or $20 depending on purity and market demands.

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