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Then I took flight, all you seen was a streak of light
Ghost, you didn't catch me if you wanted to Black Moon – Make Munne
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If Buckshot had any problems selling drugs he could get out if there in a zip. There was no chance of anybody catching him.
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Buckshot and his crew used to do their thing around here
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I'm not on the inside looking out
I'm in the dead fucking center, looking around Kendrick Lamar (Ft. Ab-Soul) – Ab-Soul's Outro
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This line describes the perspective of Section 80 that Kendrick maintains throughout the album:
He isn’t putting himself on some higher pedestal than the rest of Section 80 (not on the outside looking in), nor is he glorifying the negative aspects of them (not on the inside looking out). He is acknowledging that he is a part of the generation he is addressing and that his music is inspired by what he has observed as a part of Section 80. He’s simply a hip hop journalist; he tells you what he has seen and lets you interpret it as you want.
This could also be a reference to the cover of Illmatic, in which a younger Nas is depicted as being in the middle of the city and looking out at the world.
The world around (i.e. the answers) are dictated by the “world within” or your mind.
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His Colt .45 isn’t the inner-city minority marketed malt liquor. It’s a gun that can leave you disfigured with one or two pulls of the trigger.
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