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Uncle Murda takes one of hip hop’s most popular topics on wax: Who is the better emcee? Biggie or Jay? He asks questions such as “would Jay be as big if Big wasn’t aive”

Track is produced by Scram Jones.

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A locomotive is a vehicle that provides power for a train.

Also, the title of the song is officially Loco-Motive. So Loco-motive can also be translated in Spanglish to mean “a crazy motive”. (Loco in Spanish means crazy).

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The hook is an interpolation of the hook on Nas' “Suspect,” also used in Peter Gunz‘ “Uptown Baby.”

Suspect witness don’t come outside
You might get your wig pushed back tonight

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“I shine, you shine” is cited from Mary J. Blige’s and Smif ‘n’ Wessun’s song “I Love You (Remix)”, hence the reference to Tek & Steele after Jadakiss and Styles P. confirm that when one of them makes it, he’ll make sure the other one will, too.

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Throughout the whole album, any reference made to Puff had to be bleeped out or Puff, who the line was meant for, would sue them.

The rhyming pattern context of these bars suggests that the word “us” would rhyme with “Puff” i.e., rapper puff daddy. Jada' has left his name out though, perhaps due to the legal implications it would have.

When this album came out, The LOX had one of the biggest promotions ever in terms of leaving a record label, with their ‘let the Lox go’ campaign. They wanted to leave Puffy’s Bad Boy Records for Ruff Ryders.

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Peep facts basically means, “listen to this” or “what I’m about to say is true”

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50 Cent Is The Future is G-Unit’s first official mixtape, released in 2002. The Big 10 was released on December 9, 2011, so it’s not quite the tenth anniversary, but it’s close enough.

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DMX burst in the rap scene at a time when Puff Daddy’s “Shiny Suit Era” was at its height. DMX, along with other rappers like Big Pun, Cam'Ron and Noreaga, brought back the hardcore, gangster rap in 1998.

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This is taken from the memorable first line of Grandmaster Flash’s “The Message"—which is also heavily sampled on this song.

Broken glass everywhere
People pissin' on the stairs, you know they just don’t care

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