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A (awkward) reference to the Bruce Lee film “Enter the Dragon

Anyway, this entire verse is showing you how raw Vinnie and JMT are, and the reason why you got “slashed” or “killed is simply because of their sheer rawness.

Also Bruce Lee was raw.

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Ali Baba is a character from Arabic literature, he had a legendary sword presumed to be shaped like the one below.

It’s “Swoosh-shaped” in reference to the famous Nike Swoosh

but the sword is actually inside a Nike bag (a gym bag or something like the picture below) so it fits.

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Sampled from Mobb Deep’s “Quiet Storm (Remix)

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Sampled from “Put It On” by Big L (R.I.P.)

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A reference to former black world heavyweight champion Jack Johnson. He became champion at the height of the Jim Crow Era, a time when African-Americans were persecuted heavily.

Johnson also fought in the Orthodox stance, which is the stance in boxing for right-hand dominant fighters.

Vinnie, like Johnson is vicious with his right hand despite the fact that Vinnie scraps Southpaw

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Plastic explosives are often considered high-tech due to the knowledge it takes to engineer them. (It’s not simple, folks.)

C-4), Semtex, stuff like that are plastic explosives, and they make big explosions.

So Vinnie’s not only saying that it takes some serious knowledge to comprehend his music, he’s saying it’s explosive as in hot or controversial.

#Kaboom

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Clever. To “clap” at someone is to shoot at them (with guns, durrrr.) But these other rappers are so soft the only thing they clap for is an encore at someone’s show. (Presumably Vinnie’s.)

From this:

to this:

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A reference to Bryce Howard’s character in the film “M. Night Shyamalan’s The Village. In the film, she plays a blind woman named Ivy.

(I have to admit… the line doesn’t make much sense when put into this verse however.)

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Khalid Muhammad was the leader of the New Black Panther Party until his death in 2001, he was very largely respected and feared for his public denunciations of white power and criticisms of Jews, Catholics, homosexuals, and whites.

Saying you can battle with Vinnie is like Mr. Muhammad saying he is all for White Power and is a part of that movement. It doesn’t make sense and is quite literally impossible.

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Dwight Howard is a NBA basketball player who has often been the subject of scrutiny in the NBA for his low free throw percentages.

See here;

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Iek9LrDeu2U

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