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This is sampled from Chris Tucker’s part in Rush Hour.

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Even JME drops an obvious simile now and then despite what he said earlier

Easy peasy similes used frequently really gets on my nerves.

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Jme’s very own adlib – he also has a track from his album *Famous?* entitled “Shh Hut Yuh Muh”.

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Steez = style with ease, originally coined by Method Man

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Back in the 90s in NYC, the giant tall buildings in the projects would be the ideal location for gangs to deal drugs. The fact that these buildings were so tall with so many levels allowed them to clock any enemy gang members or police coming for a raid, at which point they would easily run into the building and disappear up amongst the many levels. In some cases, there would even be back doors that the crew would know about or even have made, allowing them multiple exit/entry points.

The TV Series Gangland explores a lot of these stories, if you want to peep it for yourself.

Cappadonna as a young kid was most probably part of one of these gangs as a drug runner, he would actually be the one supplying the crack, the money would typically be paid to someone else, so as to keep the two parts of the transaction separate and make it harder to convict if one of them was to get caught by the police.

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The song is an extended metaphor for how their song lyrics can be used just like a physical weapon to defeat their enemies.

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He talks about how writing lyrics is an art, a skilled craft, which lends a certain classy feel to what him and K-OS do.

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Extended metaphor where Shad is comparing writing rhymes to using a weapon, namely an AK-47 in order to attack his enemies.

Brings a whole new meaning to the phrase ‘The pen is mightier than the sword

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More wordplay with spray meaning to rap and to spraypaint graffiti, talking about how they kill the songs that they appear on.

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