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Gerry Cooney and Ingemar Johansson were both white boxers, who were pretty good at what they were doing, much like R.A.

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Mitch “Blood” Green is a former pro-boxer, best known for a lengthy arrest record and getting knocked-the-fuck-out by Tyson more times outside the ring than in it. Much like R.A. the Rugged Man, Mitch is apparently flat broke and living in New York these days. RA has him featured on an interlude later in the album, saying things about snitches.

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Ricky Ricardo was a fictional character in the TV sitcom I Love Lucy. One of his popular catchphrases was:

It’s just so ridiculous

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Reference to a Big Daddy Kane lyric from “Warm It Up, Kane”:

As I design the genuine line
Now who flattop rules in eighty-nine?

Hear Kane’s own thoughts on this famous line here.

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“Dip-dip-dive, so-socialize!” was a common MC chant back in the pre-wax days of hip hop. It was first used in the song “Superappin'” by Grandmaster Flash and the Furious Five.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7L_YHWQMFu4

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A small crack rock that would provide one hit of the pipe. Basically the fiend is saying “please give me more drugs, I need to get high”.

Also, it was this line that Ice Cube took from this song to later on dis N.W.A. within the introduction of “No Vaseline”. In Ice Cube’s use of this line in “No Vaseline,” followed by a sample of Eazy-E’s line from “8 Ball” (“Ice Cube writes rhymes that I say”), Ice Cube is calling Eazy-E a dopefiend!

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This is an enjambment: Bun is saying that “they” (the system) have “you” (the listener) in the palm of their hand, like somebody from California might hold a $20 sack of good weed, which fits nicely in the palm of one’s hand. The “palm” is also a reference to the palm trees in Cali, which is also famous for its range of good quality weed.

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I always assumed he was saying “Topanga,” and interpreted it one of two ways: (a)That he has such a sexual appetite that he wants to fuck the entire female population of Topanga, California, or (b)That he wants to get it on with Danielle Fishel from Boy Meets World.

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Inner-city schools aren’t teaching our children, they are incarcerating their minds. This is a crime against the future.

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White cops still abuse black people in LA when they think they can get away with it.

Also, “get straight racist” sounds like “get straight razors,” i.e they’re going to cut you.

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