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Her mother-in-law being a militant, is only telling us that his wife grew up in a strict home, probably raising her to be strict also. Unless her disorderly dad didn’t counter-raise her..

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“Biggie’s and Pac’s” referring to the Notorious B.I.G’s and 2Pac’s respective albums. The two albums Elzhi is referring to are most probably Ready To Die by Notorious B.I.G. and Me Against The World by 2Pac as they follow the time frame Elzhi had suggested in the previous line.

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Dick Van Dyke

The Van here could be commenting on the Unamerican Caravan (UAC) which was Common’s crew. Dyke is a derogatory term used for a lesbian so the line is a play on words on the name Dick Van Dyke.

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Referring to Large Professor and Q-Tip who had featured on this song.

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References Daddy-O’s line from Stetsasonic’s Go Stetsa
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s7wKj23cBL0&t=3m45s

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Chris Tucker played “Smokey” in the movie Friday. In one of the scenes Smokey unknowingly smokes angel dust.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5UKm6C4EmqI

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In conjunction with the previous line, after he declines sex with another woman, he then goes home to confess to his lady what happened, and then praises her.

This could also be in reference to Usher’s “Confessions” album and songs of the same name – parts one and two. In those songs, Usher admits to his lover of being unfaithful and takes full responsibility of his mistakes.

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This is a reference to Shakespeare’s The Merchant of Venice:

O hell! what have we here?
A carrion Death, within whose empty eye
There is a written scroll! I’ll read the writing.
All that glitters is not gold;
Often have you heard that told:
Many a man his life hath sold
But my outside to behold:
Gilded tombs do worms enfold.
Had you been as wise as bold,
Young in limbs, in judgment old,
Your answer had not been inscroll’d:
Fare you well; your suit is cold.

Also it could be a pun on his name, his name is Diamond D and diamonds do glow so he could be saying even though I’m not gold i still shine.

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From the song Shame On A Nigga which appeared on their debut album.

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On this, the ninth track of Common’s 1997 LP One Day It’ll All Make Sense, Common drops a gritty three minutes of uninterrupted underground rhyming, a lengthy verse that stands with his best work.

This verse was ranked by XXL as Common’s best verse of his career.
http://www.xxlmag.com/news/2012/01/xxl-presents-commons-50-greatest-verses/

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