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Drugs are dealed loosely (softly).

It could also be alluding to Viagra, as “is dealed like flaccid” which viagra is often used to treat to give an erection, in pill form.

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Lupe sounds as if he is saying is Dill like Vlasic, a Pickle company. It’s some wordplay.

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One real person will recognize another

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Pau Gasol is an NBA center/power forward on the LA Lakers, most people call him clever because he doesn’t really try to get a lot of contact

Also, he says he’s the “center” of attention because Pau’s position is a center. He only says “clever” to pat himself on the back as a parenthetical.

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The “raisin in the sun” reference is not to the play, but to the “Dream Deferred” poem by Hughes from where the name of the play is taken. In it, Hughes asks “What happens to a dream deferred?/ Does it dry up/ like a raisin in the sun?”

Of course, it helps that the play Raisin in the Sun took place in Chitown.

Rage Against the Machine (1991-2007) was a Conscious Rap/Metal band that blazed the path for radicals like Lupe.

Finally, the case in the court was his boy Chilly (FREE CHILLY!) whose prosecution/persecution was not enough to keep Lupe’s clique down.

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