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Postpaid Mobile Phones can be bugged and easily traced by the “feds”(police) possibly leading to the drug dealers imprisonment. So to prevent this, they use “pay as you go” (Prepaid Mobile Phones) which cannot be traced as easily.

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The golden nugget

The sim card of a drug dealer is how the fiends contact them. It is a source of “gold”, money.

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He wants people to not only HEAR (with ears) what he is saying, but also LISTEN and interpret (with their minds)

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Plan B does not literally mean he guides the blind.

By blind, he is referring to those who do not entirely understand the workings of the world around them. Or alternatively, those who chose to remain ignorant and ignore it. He aims, through this song and entire album to ‘open’ people’s eyes to the truth

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The drug dealers have a wide variety of drugs from all classes to chose from. Methamphetamine is crystal meth.

Interesting fact to keep the kids off it:
20% of crystal meth users develop schizophrenia.

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Verbatim means to repeat something exactly as it was given.
Plan B vouches to narrate what he has witnessed living on the ‘manors’, or estates. With no beating around the bush or polishing, Plan B fairly represents London, England – a very different picture to what is shown in Harry Potter etc. to say the least.

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Reference to female drug addicts prostituting to maintain their habit/addiction.

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A manor, which is usually used to describe a house, is used throughout the album rather ironically to describe an estate, which is similar to the ‘projects’ in America.

This is also a continuation of the earlier reference to Wu-Tang Clan, as the end of the hook on the song C.R.E.A.M. goes

Dollar dollar bill y'all

Ill -
Manor/Estates are cramped and crawling with crime.

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Inspired by Wu-Tang Clangs song ‘Cash rules everything around me, C.R.E.A.M’

The acronym, altered for Plan B’s lyrics spell ’D.R.E.A.M' which could be an underlying message to those from areas such as London [where has seen a surge in drug related crime in recent years] to dream bigger than selling drugs.

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Older ‘thugs’ will go to the lengths of using their control over younger boys mainly, to carry out their dirty work.

A skeng is UK slang for a knife

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