(Brrr!) Kitchen
(Ha ha ha!) Kitchen Hail Mary Mallon – Grubstake
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More beef. Someone started a fight right outside the Roxie Theater, another SF landmark.
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This song is set in San Francisco. The Grubstake is a famous diner there. The song opens with someone talking trash to Aes and Rob outside the joint. Bad idea.
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BMI and ASCAP are the two largest performance rights organisations in the US, responsible for paying artists royalties from radio play and live performance of their work.
Here Pos alludes to De La’s reputation as prolific samplers – especially on their first album. This landed them in the middle of one of Hip Hop’s first major copyright infringement cases when they were sued by The Turtles over an unauthorised sample.
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Rap is fast, but rap ain't cool De La Soul – Live @ the Dugout 87
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Gomar Oz Dubar is a phrase meaning God, derived from the Hebrew words for strength, wisdom and beauty. Although it is thought to have originated in Brooklyn’s Nuwaubian Nation, it occasionally pops up in the lyrics of certain Five Percenter MC’s (see Just Ice and Rakim).
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La ilaha illallah is part of the Shahada, the Muslim declaration of belief. Roughly translated it means there is no God but Allah.
The word illallah only appears once in the actual Shahada but Trag says it twice so that it almost sounds like L Allah L Allah. As Allah represents the letter A in the Supreme Alphabet, this translates to LA LA – a subtle reference to the song’s title and target? Another possibility: the words “Ill Allah” form a parallel to Tragedy’s other dualistic identities, Intelligent Hoodlum and Foul Mahdi.
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