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Brooklyn clothing designer Karl Kani made a separate Big & Tall line for basketball players and their ilk
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Rough Riders, a brand of studded condom, is not to be confused with the New York rap syndicate Ruff Ryders, which features Jadakiss, DMX, and Swizz Beats, who would certainly not all fit in the back of a Nissan Pathfinder (that said, the latter interpretation amplifies a certain ambiguous attitude vis-à-vis group sex evinced by this song and others on Ready To Die)
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The ‘Pathfinder’ is a car made by Nissan. Biggie was a big fan of Asian cars, especially Lexus and Toyota, as he mentions those several times in his tracks. It also seems like himself had a red Toyota Land Cruiser, because there are some photos of him with such a car.
Yeah, NYC is hard terrain…
Nissan Pathfinder WD21
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By making reference to this famous boxing match between Muhammad Ali and Joe Frazier in the Philippines in 1975, Biggie is presumably vaunting the length and intensity of his lovemaking, not its martial qualities or controversial relationship to U.S. engagement in Vietnam
Joe Frazier was often clowned by Ali as “black and ugly,” a description Biggie proudly associated himself with as heard in the remix of this song: “Heart throb, never, black and ugly as ever.”
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