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He’s referring to Tomica Wright, the owner of Ruthless Records ever since her husband, Eazy-E died (R.I.P.). She signed Hopsin, didn’t pay him much, and put no effort into promoting his music. He is pretty clear about not liking her on “Kill Her”. He admits that the song is about her here.

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At the beginning of The Notorious B.I.G.’s “Nasty Boy”, a woman has a weird fetish and literally wants him to shit on her stomach. Biggie eventually agrees, and then she just kind of washes it off.

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L.A. Sno is a rapper and member of the duo Duice, who released the hit single “Dazzy Duks” in 1993. He also received a credit on “My Baby Daddy” for creating the “Original Concept” behind the song.

In 2010, L.A. Sno landed in the news when his cameo in Tag Team’s 1993 music video for “Whoomp! There It Is!” was mistaken for a young Barack Obama:

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While Nas is just doing his thing, people on social networks and news shows and blogs are “exploiting” his work with biased reports to destroy the rap culture and make it look violent. Although Nas has some violent songs, many are positive and about helping people and giving back. The media chooses to focus on songs where he glorifies murder and shoot-outs, which is misleading and causes people to label black and hip hop culture as detrimental in general. Nas is distraught because that is not what he represents at all.

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Chill and laid-back, “Island in the Sun” is the softer side to Weezer’s Green Album, a retreat from heavier guitars to fantasizing about running away with a special someone to some sunny island. In a review of underrated Weezer songs, The AV Club called the song “sweet and innocently hopeful” and said that it justified comparisons between frontman Rivers Cuomo and Brian Wilson. In 2013, Rolling Stone rated the song the 46th best summer song of all time. The song was also featured in a 2006 episode of The Simpsons entitled “The Wettest Stories Ever Told”.

“Island in the Sun” was one of the last songs Mikey Welsh worked on as the bass guitar player for Weezer before he left after having repeated mental breakdowns while on tour.

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B.G. Knocc Out is the brother of the guy in the last verse named Dresta. Before becoming rappers, they were in the Nutty Blocc Compton Crips.

The B.G. in his pseudonym stands for “Baby Gangsta”, fitting given he was eighteen years old when the track dropped.

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Haile Selassie was Ethiopia’s regent from 1916 to 1930 and Emperor of Ethiopia from 1930 to 1974.
He is seen as the Rastafari returned Messiah or the bible because the Rastas perceive him as someone who will “lead a future golden age of eternal peace, righteousness, and prosperity.”

Damian and Marley are both, of course, Rastafarians.

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Guerilla Warfare is when a small, mobile group of irregular forces perform hit and run tactics in an area controlled by a hostile, regular force.

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Some may say that this line describes how Common “approached” hip-hop with his first single, “Take it EZ”.

However, this line is primarily giving a shoutout to Easy E, who said, “Easily I approach” in his track, “Still Talkin'”.

(Mind you, this line preludes to what he’ll say next about “[breaking] to the West Coast.”)

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“Take It EZ” is the debut single by Chicago rapper Common Sense from his 1992 debut album Can I Borrow a Dollar? The jazzy track is produced by 2 pc. DRK, a production team made up of Twilite Tone and Immenslope (a.k.a. No I.D.). The single was the highest-charting song from the album, peaking at #5 on the Billboard Hot Rap Singles chart.

The track was also featured on his 1991 demo tape UnAmerican Caravan.

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