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Bizzy Bone is also known as R.I.P. or Ripsta. Bizzy lets us know here, that Bone Thugs are down with 2Pac—as shown by the thugged-out sign off:

‘Pac and Rip, with thug love

If you listen to “Hell Sent” from their underground Faces of Death album, they introduce themselves before their verses start. Bizzy Bone is Rest In Peace (aka R.I.P. or Ripsta/Lil' Ripsta).

The reason this is in the chorus is this song was originally just with Pac, Bizzy, Sylk-E-Fyne and some other cats before the rest of Bone got a hold of it and layed down their verses. On the original version there’s no hook, 2 Bizzy verses & Sylk’s verse.

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“Back it up and dump it” is a reference to the Southern hit “Dump Truck” by Kinfolk Thugs

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Lupe loves some TMNT. Donatello was the smart, computer literate one. Also, a possible, small, sub-metaphor would be the reference to the “underworld” – TMNT lived underground in the sewers.

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Even though this isn’t his best of the best lyrics, he has others wondering how he does it, when he’s not even going at full capacity.

Similar to Talib Kweli’s line,

Only using half of my mentals on instrumentals

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These are all things that are used to mask the scent of drugs from drug sniffing dogs. This is in reference to the next line “throw off my scents”.

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Jin Au-Yeung (歐陽靖) is a Hong Kong rapper, songwriter, and actor. Growing up in the Miami, Florida area, and later living in New York City, he decided to reside permanently in his motherland, Hong Kong. Because of his multicultural background, he is fluent in both Cantonese and English. Back in the United States, he was both the first East Asian and Chinese solo rapper to be signed to a major record label.

Jin’s first single. Produced by Wyclef, it was not well received due to the esoteric references in the song.

Contains samples from James Brown – Blind Man Can See It, Yellowman – Mr. Chin and additional vocals from Ayeesha.

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He is using pizza restaurants to explain his dominance

He connects Little Caesars to burning down Pizza Huts because, as we all learned in history class, Caesar was once a ruler of Rome, much of which was destroyed in fire.

When he says domino-in niggas, he is referring to when you push down dominoes, creating the domino effect, with all subsequent ones falling also. He is saying that he is causing other rappers to “fall.” It also connects to the pizza restaurants, as Domino’s is one.

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If you throw something in a pond or any body of water it will cause a ripple effect. And the further the ripple goes, the bigger the circle gets. He is suggesting that the influence that his rap has gets bigger and bigger like the mentioned ripple effect.

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Since wrestling is all an act, he is suggesting that since he is so high up above everybody else he has seen a lot of fake rappers in the game from the top, and spotted their fakeness the way wrestling fans spot the fakeness in pro wrestling.

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She’s gotten pregnant twice and had chosen to terminate both pregnancies. The second time, she has to be the strong one and comfort him.

Her boyfriends always cheated but were jealous when she started talking to other dudes.

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