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A popular orange juice brand at the time.

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The era of Rap City… they got co-signed by Ice Cube in the video of “What’s That Cha Say”, so you the rap nerds had to cop it. They had a playful, party, teenage vibe over West Coast beats. Beyond that, they came and went with just this one album. It was fire, tho.

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A reference to the parting of ways of Jay-Z (Shawn Carter) and Damon Dash – 2 of the co-founders of Roc-A-Fella records.

http://www.vibe.com/article/jay-z-vs-dame-dash-unraveling-roc-fella-explained

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S-K-Y breaks it down himself in an interview with complex:

“As far as the references, I felt it was only right being that I was using their beat to shout them out in one way or another as opposed to saying, “Shout out to NER*D, shout out to Pharrell.” I’d rather do it a more creative way. I’d rather do it in a way where either you may not have caught it, or you may have caught it. I was recording it with !llmind and he caught it right away. He was like, “Yo, that was really really cool how you did that man.” The minute I laid it down I watched him while I was recording and he started laughing when I said that part.

To get to the lines, when I say, “Them sounds that you seeing is all that I really know,” it’s two parts. The first part being I feel like when I make music you can see it. I’ve always said that. I’ve always said when I make records you can see it just as much as you can hear it. You can kind of close your eyes, listen to what I’m saying and you see everything that I’m telling you, like I’m painting a picture. With that being said, it’s pretty much everything I talk about is what I know. I only talk about things that I know, things that I’ve experienced and that I’ve dealt with on a first-hand basis. And I can portray it to you and convey it to you in a way where you get it so well because I know it. I can’t tell you how to run a play for the New York Giants because I never did that, but I can tell you how this happens where I’m from or what this is like because I know it. So, that’s all I really meant. It was just a cool way of me saying everything you hear on a record and potentially see on a record when you hear it from me is what I know. It was just a cool, complicated way of saying it."

http://www.hiphopdx.com/index/news/id.15674/title.skyzoo-breaks-down-the-great-debater-promises-an-ode-to-jay-zs-reasonable-doubt-by-years-end

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Anthony Baez was a New Yorker that died in 1994 due to asphyxiation following an altercation with police which started when a football hit a police car. His friends claimed the choke hold by Officer Francis Livoti was the cause of death. Criminal charges where brought, but the officer was acquitted – outraging the public.

Livoti was later convicted in Federal court of violating Anthony Baez’s civil rights, serving six and a half years in prison. Baez’s widow also settled a wrongful death suti with the NYPD for $3 million.

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Amadou Diallo was an unarmed New York man that plain clothes NYPD officers shot at 41 times, hitting him 19 times, as they mistook his wallet for a gun. Kriminul is starting to see a pattern.

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In 1986, Larry Davis, a previously convicted criminal, engaged in a shootout with police that were attempting to bring him in for questioning. Six officers were wounded. He escaped and remained on the lam for 17 days, before finally being brought into custody. He became a folk hero, and has a long history of Hip-Hop lyric. appearances

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Seeing a policeman with a night stick brings to mind Abner Louima, whom was assaulted and forcibly sodomized with a broken-off broom handle by NYPD officers after being arrested outside a Brooklyn nightclub in 1997.

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A Hip-Hop generation before the “Black Lives Matter” movement, songs like this were commonplace. A look into the mind of a successful black man pulled over for no reason, with the thoughts of other minority men – Abner Louima, Larry Davis, Amadou Diallo, Patrick Dorismond and Anthony Baez – that met great harm in the same situation.

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Athletic Mic League hails from Ann Arbor, Michigan. Some members went to Huron High School which has a River Rat as its mascot.

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