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These are both relatively nasty cancers – scirrhous carcinoma is breast cancer and retinoblastoma is eye cancer.

Not posting pictures on purpose.

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I think this is a reference to being able to travel light-years before his opponent can smile.

A light year is 9.4605284 × 1015 meters – more than you can conceive.

On the other hand a fiber optic mile is a mile no matter how you look at it – but Canibus is able to travel it in less than .000005 seconds.

Here’s something cool made with fiber optics:

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Referencing the famous series of Sprint ads in which a listener claims to be able to hear a pin drop over the telephone.

http://youtu.be/6ae2hrsvQYs

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The song title is a reference to the first chapter of the Old Testament, Genesis. This is where the religious references (7 days of creation, hell) and references to being first come from.

The song is kind of a little history of how Canibus got into rap. ‘Genabis’ is a portmanteau of Genesis and Bis. Sort of like the history of Canibus.

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Cemantics is a play on the word Semantics and Canibus’s name. Semantics is the study of meaning, and questioning the meanings of everything is what this song revolves around.

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A simple reference to editing pictures with Avid Studio (Avid also makes the famous audio editor Pro Tools)

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Further references to Tibetan buddhism:

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Further references to Tibetan buddhism:

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I suspect Canibus meant “photons” – the particle form of light is called a photon, so if you don’t see light, you see nothing (black).

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Chinese chess is a Chinese board game similar to chess (no shit, Sherlock):

Canibus is probably referring to the fact that computers and AI have not solved Chinese chess – there are countless combinations of states that the board can be in.

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