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Proof doesn’t like how the rap game is handled, someone needs to fix it.

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This Verse’s beginning is based on Slick Rick’s classic Childern’s Story.
Children’s Story is used a lot by other rappers, for example:
EminemCan-I-Bitch
Black StarChildern’s Story (By Mos Def)
OutkastWheelz of Steel (By Big Boi)

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This, Rap Name, is the “one hot single” Obie is referring to.

although this single wasn’t even featured on any of Obie’s albums; it was on the soundtrack for the movie 8 Mile.

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2 Early 90s Classics:

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This might sound like a reference to rapper Rick Ross who just released his debut album back then, but he’s actually referring to Freeway Ricky Ross, an American convicted drug trafficker best known for the drug empire he presided over in Los Angeles, California, in the early to mid 1980s.

He’s making his drug money, like Ricky Ross.

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A Typical name-dropping verse by The Game.

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A play on Eminem’s alter ego, Slim Shady.

The Game is Shady.

You can find many meanings to the word in Urban Dictionary

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Track #13 on Talib Kweli’s Album, Quality.
This song is featuring New York based singer, Vinia Mojica.

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Vinia Mojica is a Queens based American singer, best known for her collaborations with the Native Tongues collective and other hip hop artists.

Vinia is also known by her collaborations with Talib Kweli and Mos Def the most, other than collaborating with other associated Rawkus Records artists.

She was featured on Black Star’s debut album, in K.O.S.

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Voodoo is the belief that you can possess a certain human and hurt him using using Voodoo dolls.
Swifty knows that people from his hood only wish him bad things out of jealousy while he’s working with the group.

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