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If you let 50 be your pimp, he’ll be kind enough to give you a taste of the good life. Of course, being 50’s hoe isn’t all watching TV in the back of his Mercedes – there’s also the part where you have sex with (often violent or otherwise unappealing) dudes for money.

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Because PMD doesn’t use fabric softener, sucker MCs static cling (to his nuts)

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That Cisco is a mean wine–until the FTC made them change the slogan, their tagline was “Takes You By Surprise”

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Dover, England, has long been famous for its chalk cliffs. Because they overlook the English Channel, references to seeing the cliffs have, for centuries, been a way to describe arrival in Britain. Hip-hop was relatively, perhaps surprisingly, popular in the UK at the time, with some artists making as much money touring in the UK and Europe as in the US, so PMD is describing two areas of major influence in hip-hop.

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Kid Capri is a party-rocking DJ who may be best known for the 52 Beats breaks mixtape, which was covered in its entirety by the late Grandmaster Roc Raida

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Pop-r'n'b group Color Me Badd, of ‘I Wanna Sex You Up’ fame, are an excellent example of the New Jacks that E.P.M.D. so often rails against

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The sample is from the Stax classic “After Laughter (Comes Tears)” by Wendy Rene.

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‘Motherfuckers’/‘suckers’ isn’t the most inspired rhyme in the world. In JuJu’s words,

We are all about the beat, that’s our formula when we produce shit, the beats gotta be hot, it’s gotta grab you. ‘Cause I’ll be the first nigga to say that we’re not the best MCs in the world.

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It’s one thing to go after a man’s daughter or his girlfriend. Shooting his mom is taking it to that next level

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Intoxicated Demons‘ cover is modeled after jazz saxophonist Hank Mobley’s The Turnaround

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