Blow these valleys, these hills, these streams
And N. C. outta the water
How's it feel to look a motherfucker dead in the grill
And tell 'em, "I told ya!" Petey Pablo – Raise Up
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Luda references a famous line in Kindergarten Cop in which Arnold Schwarzenegger, who complains of a headache, rejects a student suggestion that it could be a tumor, emphatically yelling “It’s not a tumor!”
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In addition to the movie reference, this line ties into the next one where he’s talking about the working class folks doing manual labor. There’s a lot of them, doing rather mundane work, and they’re all pretty replaceable in the eyes of those in charge; not unlike the clone army in the movie.
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Drawing a contrast between him self and his Grandma; while he was out tagging (graffiti) with his hoodlum friends, Grandma was doing all the things expected of a proper Catholic. This ties in with the next line where Aes' Grandma chastises him for caring more about hip hop than God.
If only he could have combined the two:
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These are correctional facilities in eastern North Carolina, near Petey’s hometown of Greenville.
The brown/green is referencing the different color clothes the prisoners wear. Brown jumpsuits are for the medium security prisoners, green for low security.
After Pasquotank it is Caledonia not down on the.
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it’s not “down on the” it’s “Caledonia” caledonia correctional institute aka caledonia prison farm
JohnsTon county not Johnson