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The song is the anthem of the Hyphy Movement coming out of the Bay Area, featuring the Ambassador of the Bay himself E-40 and hyphy mainstay Keak da Sneak

Produced by: Lil Jon

E-40: “When I first signed with Lil Jon I said, ‘Man, I’ma be me. I want you to give me some new flavors but I also want to cater to my area, my region. I’m gonna want some uptempos, some midtempos, and some soft shit. We gone mix it up.’ He was like, ‘Okay.’ So first song we did [that day] was ‘Muscle Cars.’ I already knew I wanted to do a song called ‘Muscle Cars.’ So I said, ‘Jon, make me an uptempo slap. I wanna call it ‘Muscle Cars.’’ So he made the beat and killed. I said, ‘Lemme call Keak da Sneak cause I want him on this track.’

“So I called Dame Fame—a good friend of Keak da Sneak—and I say, ‘Fame, what’s your email cause I want to send you this track called ‘Muscle Cars’ that I want Keak to get on.’ He was like, ‘Okay, but me and Keak in Atlanta.’ I said, ‘Y’all niggas in Atlanta? WHAT! Man if y'all don’t get your ass to this studio and come lay this verse to this shit!’ [Laughs.] Keak wasn’t never in Atlanta like that but I was. I would be out there all the time. But just the fact that that particular day he was there, I was like, ‘Whoa! What are the chances of this?’

“They came over there. We had a good time too. We got right. We got perkin’ and whatnot, we got that herbal essence in us, that good broccoli, and what-have-you. The beat was made. Keak da Sneak came in there did the hook, did his verse, I did mine. Turf Talk was in the Bay, so we sent it to him.

“In the meantime and in-between time, that same day that we did ‘Muscle Cars’—me, Keak da Sneak, Lil Jon, and Dame Fame, were all still in the studio. Lil Jon was still on the MPC and that boy just came with that ‘dun dun-tsk, dun dun dun-dun tsk.’ Just came out of nowhere with the beat. Like, ‘Ooh, what the fuck is that!?’

“Then the boy Dame Fame and Keak da Sneak was like [whispering], ‘Tell me when to go. Tell me when to go.’ And I said, ‘Spit that shit to me, boy!’ Like [raises voice], ‘Tell me when to go! Tell me when to go!’ And I was like, ‘That’s hard.’ It was like magic. Next thing you know, the boy Lil Jon got the Run DMC sample from ‘Dumb Girl.’ Then I spit a verse, Keak did his verse. Then Jon said that at the end of the song there needs to be a chant. That we needed to talk about all that shit that we do out there in the Bay and make it a chant. That’s what I did. And the shit became a smash.”

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Birdman has spent $100 million in his lifetime which is hard as fuck, especially for someone from the N.O. projects. See the interview in the first paragraph for a link.

This masterpiece has spawned the #1 rated Most Over-the-Top Music Video of All Time.

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Wale tries to justify his decision to drop out of college to his mom. He’s making real music and trying to change the hip hop game

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Drawn from Nate Dogg’s verse on Tupac’s “All About U,” a song about the groupie love they get, stating: “Every other city we go…”

The twist is that he doesn’t actually fuck them. The pause after this “fuck” makes the line mean “fuck me”, like what you say after you make a mistake. Since he’s married with a daughter he doesn’t cheat on his wife, but the women are still trying to get at him. The homophone with a pause is similar to his “businessman/business, man” line from the Diamonds From Sierra Leone (Remix).

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Lil' Wayne is the king of hip-hop, and he carries a time meme throughout the song

Off of the I Am Not a Human Being album

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Drake made a cameo in Trey’s video for the hit record “Wonder Woman”. (Around 1:15)

This carries over to the other line where he mentions “which made everything right with X”. Little X directed the Wonder Woman video.

Drake also mentions Little X in The Presentation where he raps:

I’m keepin' it cleaner than a Little X direction

This is in reference to Little X’s style of shooting. It is also not a coincidence that Little X is Canadian

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Diamond is considered the hardest naturally occurring substance. His cojones are that hard

Also a reference to Yela’s 2008 mixtape Ball Of Flames: The Ballad Of Slick Rick E. Bobby. In the Film Talladega Nights, the main character Ricky Bobby claims to have “diamond nuts” and to “piss excellence”

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He’s not in the forefront of the rap game yet but his music is still hard. This was especially true when this mixtape was released, which was before he was signed to Shady Records

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Time for Rick Ross to sell some dope and get money to get his lights back on. Young Jeezy faced this same dilemma on “Go Crazy”:

It’s kinda hard to be drug-free
When Georgia Power won’t give a nigga lights free

Also it’s a sense of urgency that his lights got cut off, so it’s time to sell the drugs pure, no time to cook it up because that will take too long for his immediate issues

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