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“Piano in the Dark” is a song released in 1988 by Soul singer Brenda Russell. The hook goes:

Oh no, gave up on the riddle
I cry just a little
When he plays piano in the dark

This song is probably more familiar to a younger generation as the root sample for Flo Rida’s song “I Cry” (the Flo Rida song sampled Bingo Players' “Cry (Just A Little)”, which in turn sampled “Piano in the Dark”).

Additionally, OutKast’s last album, Idlewild featured André on the cover playing piano in a dark setting.

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“Rolled too tight” is a double entendre.

Translation: “I’m Method Man, I carry myself (roll) with style (too tight), and you can’t fuck with (pull) me.”

But it’s Method Man, so we get a dope weed reference here. For all the non-smokers, if you roll a blunt too tightly, you cant take a pull off of it.

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Gibbs posted on Twitter in December that a TSA agent found weed in his baggage at the airport. Instead of busting him though, the agent just left him with this note

“C'mon son”

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A G-pass is basically immunity from violence from gang members when in their territory.

Gibbs is a member of the Vice Lord street gang, which has territories that run from Gary, Indiana (G.I.) to Chicago. If you go through there without any kind of G-pass you get robbed and beat up.

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“Hot goods” are stolen goods. Gibbs stole drugs from his competition.

Gibbs is saying he’s the go-to-guy, if you need drug he can provide you, if you got a stock he’ll buy it to re-sell it.

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The dealer is missing money that belongs to Gibbs. He was fronted cocaine but ended up trading too much for sex.

Don’t worry about him forgetting though, he is waiting outside your house.

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A dealer ended up giving up too much cocaine for sex, now he is coming up short.

Also mocking the fact that William Shatner, who used to play Captain Kirk in Star Trek, is lagging on tv time these days.

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If everybody in his crew is slangin crack, he’s going to be doing the same. He’s just a product of his environment.

The quote in the previous line shows opposition to gangsters, but not to rappers. This line is saying that that quote “can’t be legit” if everyone in the rapper’s click or group sold drugs. Rapping, for them, is not an alternative to being a thug, but a result, which is why you can’t be against one and not the other.

Also B-Legit is a member of The Click with E-40, Suga T and D Shot.

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Literally: His uncle was dating a woman who got him addicted to crack cocaine. As the addiction took over he became a fiend, eventually robbing people to pay for more crack. His Uncle died when the man he was trying to rob shot and killed him.

This may be the same uncle Freddie Gibbs mentions in “Stay Down”

Granny just passed, my uncle out here smoking glass

At the level of metaphor, this is typical of Gibbs — understated but enormously effective. First, to call the crack pipe “the glass dick” (Gibbs is hardly the first to use this formulation) communicates contempt for the weakness of those who use crack, even as Gibbs brags in the same song about cooking and selling it (indeed, the original name of the album was Cocaine Piñata). Those who sell are predators; those who use are prey, and deserving of scorn.

Second, note that the line is meant to be emasculating — his uncle, lacking a will of his own, was given a crack habit by his paramour. His emasculation — taking his cues from a woman — is signaled by the fact that he is sucking on a (metaphorical) dick.

Finally, Gibb’s precise wording seems intended to recall the Sir Mix-a-Lot classic Put ‘Em on the Glass, about women flashing men on the highway. Here, though, the woman is not putting her breasts on display, but her man on drugs.

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A quote by pastor Calvin Butts that also appeared in the beginning of the Bone Thugs-n-Harmony music video for “Thuggish Ruggish Bone”.

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