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Ice Cube describes a typical day in the hood – rolling around, philosophizing, bustin' caps in the mix, eating, and shitting…

The song’s concept (or at least the title) was later adapted by Lil Wayne and Gucci Mane to great effect.

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“Don’t worry, baby – I didn’t turn you around to put it in your butt! I just wanted some doggy-action” (ahh, so reassuring..)

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Everlast spit some barely-subliminal Eminem disses on Dilated Peoples' “Ear Drums Pop (Remix)

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Recorded during the former House of Pain emcee’s brief feud with Eminem, this song, a response to Em’s “I Remember”, questions Eminem’s daughter’s paternity.

This is one of the hardest disses towards Eminem in his career. And the way eminem reacted underlines this. Eminem later admitted that the beef with Everlast was something out of the ordinary.

Yeah, me and Everlast had a pretty good beef going back then. We’ve squashed it now but yeah we were going after each other for a while. I was a hell of a lot angrier person back them. My mentality was just, everybody. It may even be rooted in the way I was treated growing up. It might be psychological.

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He’s a hustler. He’s a, he’s a hustler homie

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Maybe Mobb Deep’s most famous track next to “Shook Ones Pt. II,” “Survival of the Fittest” was released as the second single from The Infamous. It describes the challenges of the criminal life on the street and the Darwinist mindset that only the strong can pull through in such an environment. The single peaked at #69 on the Billboard Hot 100 chart and #10 on the Hot Rap Tracks chart.

Havoc produced “Survival of the Fittest” by sampling and filtering the piano stabs from the beginning of the 1976 track “Skylark” by Al Cohn and The Barry Harris Trio:

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This is Dead Prez’s ode to verbal foreplay.

http://youtu.be/VwTNOxJXMYM

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Big L shows off his storytelling skill in this Biggie-like tale of revenge and robbery.

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Biggie’s first child was born while he was in prison and unable to afford nice things (or even diapers) for her. Now that he made it, he’s buying her the finest jewelry.

Biggie often said things like, “I just want to be able to feed my daughter” or “I want to make something of myself”. He didn’t want to change the world, like maybe 2Pac did. Biggie was a very simple guy, whose main goal was to provide for his family.

Interesting note: five karats refers to gold or diamonds with 5 fine parts per 24 whole, i.e. a 5/24 purity with 24/24 being the highest possible. Biggie most likely is talking about five carats (with a C), which refers to 1 gram of gold in total.

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This line is a reference to The Source’s ‘Hip hop Quotable’ section, which was sort of like a “Rhyme of the Month”. The Source’s ‘Hip Hop Quotable’ and ‘Unsigned Hype’ were two of the biggest honours in rap music during the 90s for signed and unsigned artists, respectively.

Verse 1 from “Buggin' Out

Big Pun called himself the ‘king of hip-hop quotables.’ There’s also a Ludacris song by that name

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