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He implies that fools don’t finish school. Through this implication Dres is telling his listeners to stay in school without hitting them over the head with it. This is a nice example of positivity in rap music.

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Turning fragments of a broken gold chain into earrings. When we were kids, we were crafty, making stuff. Not like the kids today with their video gameboys and myface pages.

Taking fragments from the little you have and making something new out of it is a lot like making hip-hop music.

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A type of gold chain.

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He’s channeling Joni Mitchell in “Big Yellow Taxi” with the “Got Till It’s Gone” line.

Janet Jackon and Q-Tip did a song a few years later based on the same line.

Since the beginning, hip-hop has been quoting and sampling music of all genres, from Germans in suits to blonde folkies.

These artists are Hip-Hop:

Joni Mitchell

Kraftwerk

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Ding dong ditch = ringing doorbells and running away.
Most entertaining when done repeatedly to the same household.

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Also known as Playing The Dozens, this game of wits involves telling insulting jokes like, “Your momma’s so fat she has other kids' fat mommas orbiting around her.”

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Maybe this guy knows what Shawn Wigs is talking about with those bags of purple…

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He’s referring to the dude on the left.

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Dove uses the idea of dough/bread to create somewhat of a double entendre about money.

  1. Other MCs “need” money, but
    Dove “makes” money

  2. Other MCs “knead dough” : part of the process, labor, something an employee would do;
    But Dove “makes bread” : the whole process, making the whole product, the boss who’s got the employees doing the kneading for him while he kicks back with a cocktail.

If he’s a boss as big and industrial as Wonder Bread he probably has hundreds of other MCs kneading his dough for him.

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