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Minstrel shows were performances that were often performed by white people in blackface to portray black people as lazy and stupid. The connection to present-day rap is, of course, impossible to imagine..
Took they men up, put 'em in they world, they vulnerable world
And just like that, it was only gettin', got they feelings hurt
Tell me how that sound? Kendrick Lamar – Tammy's Song (Her Evils)
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Niggas is getting smoked, G, believe me
Talk slick, you get your neck slit quick
'Cause real street niggas ain't having that shit The Notorious B.I.G. – Things Done Changed
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People have become too agressive and will attack you for the most absurd reasons. Biggie was responding to the gangsta rap of the time by simply saying that it’s one thing to talk slick on a record, but then it’s another thing to talk slick in the street.
Bears a resemblance to a line in the following track:
I’m ready to get this paper, G: you with me?
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A reference to the Little Brother song “The Getup”, he is saying that from the beginning, Little Brother is a dope trio.
This is also a reference to the blaxploitation movie Three the Hard Way starring Fred Williamson, Jim Brown, and Jim Kelly. A movie about a trio that teamed up to fight against a plot to eradicate the Black community who’s motto was:
“Three the hard way, three cities, the three of us.”
Guess it's just the finesse that you blessed with Jake One (Ft. eLZhi & Royce da 5'9") – Glow
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And put cheese down on the whip like it was quaker grits eLZhi – Deep
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Referencing Gabrielle Giffords, a politician that was nearly killed during a shooting spree by a lone gunman in a Tucson, Arizona parking lot.
Referencing the 2011 shooting in Tucson, Arizona which most notably killed John Roll, Chief Judge of the United States District Court for the District of Arizona and caused severe brain damage to then-Congresswoman Gabrielle Giffords from Arizona’s 8th Congressional District.