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“New sheriff in town” is an expression used to describe an authority who takes charge.

Nino Brown (Played by Wesley Snipes) is a character from the movie New Jack City. The film follows the rising drug empire that Nino controls in the 80’s during the crack epidemic.

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People often dream of living a luxurious life of expensive cars and beautiful women, however, in jail this dream cannot be achieved, the only thing prisoners can look forward to is living as long as they can.

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Drugs can usually make there ways into jails, even though Xzibit can’t deal out in the streets, he’s still going to continue dealing locked up.

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Xzibit in this is a convict who killed someone with a gun and got sentenced with first degree murder which is a murder that is premeditated. First degree murders usually lead to death or life imprisonment.

Also, there’s another meaning here, it is possible to suffer from different degrees of burns depending on their severity and in this case Xzibit suffers from a first degree burn from a “hot gun”.

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An old Western tradition was to have two men duel, having them stand face to face at a distance and draw their guns. High Noon is also the name of a famous Western movie.

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Count Macula was played by Big Daddy Kane, so it only felt right to include the hook (though slightly altered) to one of Kane’s most famous songs

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1aa9Y3hXXAk

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This is a reference to an MC Shan line in the song Marley Marl Scratch

“If I did not mean it, I wouldn’t have said it
I’m gonna give the man behind the wheels some credit”

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The Rap Attack was a rap radio station hosted by Mr Magic that was broadcast in New York

The Basement is famously referred to as Pete Rock’s home studio

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This is a reference to the first Pete Rock & CL Smooth project All Souled Out EP which was released in 1991

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Here Del gives a shout out to his cousin Ice Cube, but directly disses Vanilla Ice for being one of the key figures in the dance hip hop movement in the 90’s.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rog8ou-ZepE

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