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Taking to his “no good bitches” and “no good niggas”, he is sorry if he kicked someone’s ass and hurt them real bad, because they were selfish and only concerned about themselves. It is a bit of sarcasm.

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When someone greets you with a gun (or specifically a TEC-9), you will open your eyes in fear. O.C will draw attention with his skill.

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“Fly” is slang word for beautiful, so Q-Tip is calling his rap beautiful.

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Let’s play with some words

He is saying Get down meaning Get Down and Funky
and he said pessimist because pessimists are negitive which can also be known as down

If he said optimist, he’d be writing he can get up

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2 of the 9 Wu members, Deck, and Raekwon just kicking some rhymes

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If Monch has an hour to write a dope rhyme, he’ll come back with something like this song.

Similar to a line by LL Cool J from I’m Bad:
“You want a hit gimme a hour plus a pen and a pad.”

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Now he’s going back to his original thought; the one where he brings MC’s down. He was built to be the one to “kill” competing MCs

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He is comparing his raps to poison tip arows. Once his rhymes come near you, you cannot ignore them or erase them from your memory – they are too dope!. In other words, once you hear him rap, you can’t unhear it

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To spit is to rhyme. Pharoahe Monch is saying, if you can spit then prove it, spit out a rhyme!. To upchuck is to vomit. Pharoahe is telling you to either “Upchuck!” or “Spit it Out!”

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This song is about Prince Poetry and Monch delivering two battle verses asking you to try and fight back, or “bring it on.”

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