They kidnap the workers, they blowing up the pipelines
You see the fires glowing in the nighttime Reflection Eternal – Ballad of the Black Gold
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Tre: Ricky!
Help me! Help me! Somebody, help me!
Ricky, Ricky!
Ricky! The Game – Ricky
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Kids running around gang banging. Getting rich banging is easy, getting away with it is the hard part.
It’s easy to bang and get street credibility, but its hard to get over some nightmares that comes with it. Here Nas comments on the negatives of the gangster lifestyle, something more rappers should probably do.
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“D.Ts runnin round quick to split your mug, it’s easy to score. But it’s hard to get the shit off”
Meanin trigger happy NYPD DETECTIVES are runnin around the streets of NY shootin hustlers in the head with very little provocation, since they can always claim “they felt threatened” or even blatantly and deliberately falsifying their report. Therefore it’s easy to come up on some work, but it’s hard to get rid of it since the risk is so high.
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“easy to score” means easy to get a package aka crack or heroin. “but it’s hard to get your shit off” because the market is flooded and all of the hustlers fight over the lower level customers
its easy to get drugs if youre a fiend because there are many sellers since there are so many sellers compared to customers its hard to get rid of your product