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He’s going to be the new king of the rap and people will listen to his music for a long ass time, even after he dies. He’s basically saying he’s going to be Biggie Smalls.
I got a phone call from one of my nigs
Said my homeboy Reek, he just lost one of his kids
And when I heard that I just broke into tears JAY-Z & Beanie Sigel (Ft. Scarface) – This Can't Be Life
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Scarface was playing pool with Jay-Z, Beanie, and their engineer Guru and was about to walk into studio to do his verse on this song when he got a phone call from one of his friends, telling him that one of their mutual friends had just lost his kids in a fire. Scarface was quiet for awhile and went to compose a new verse, after Jay offering to just record it another day. After a few minutes, Scarface then came back and spit this verse in one shot. True story, Jay talks about it a lot in his book Decoded.
…and thus became one of the rawest verses ever spit!
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If you mess with him, he’ll destroy you both with his awesome lyrics and his fists.
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Odd Future, The hip-hop group and record label that both hodgey Beats and Domo Genesis belong to, is sometimes referenced to as Wolf Team. It is also referred to as Golf Wang and Flog Gnaw.
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Here’s a reference to an issue in August 2010 (around the time when this the song was made), in which producer Timbaland’s house was robbed. Timbaland couldn’t be found after the crime either, leading people to believe he went missing. Furthermore, he creates a nice homophone on Missy. Timb and female rapper Missy Elliott have collaborated numerous times, see Triple Threat
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Domo Genesis and Hodgy Beats are both a part of the notorious rap group Odd Future. Odd Future treats its members more as family members than group members.
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Diggy is saying that J Cole has no chance of winning a rap battle against him.
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He’s got plently of money, so why not talk about it? An obvious attempt to convince this girl to have sex with him by saying that he has money. After all, money is very persuasive…
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