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Jimmy “Superfly” Snuka is a retired professional wrestler.
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Redman is a Newark, New Jersey native, and reps it often in his songs.
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Men In Black is a movie trilogy starring Will Smith and Tommy Lee Jones about aliens and their interaction in human civilization. The Men In Black are the alien crime fighting team, and because Deck’s lyrics are otherworldly, he often gets check ups from them.
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T-Boz, Chilli, and the late Left Eye made up the r&b/hip-hop group TLC, who released a Grammy-winning song titled “Creep”.
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Deck and Es go into more detail about World War 4 on the track of the same name from the album this song appears on, CZARFACE.
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Rebel INS is another moniker for Inspectah Deck, dating back to the Enter the Wu-Tang days. Deck has called himself The Highness ever since the line in his classic verse off of Raekwon’s “Guillotine (Swordz)”.
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Beat Street is a 1984 drama about the developing hip-hop scene in New York. Ramo was one of the main characters, a graffiti artist, whose nemesis in the city was a guy named Spit.
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Bill Cosby is an African-American comedian and actor, who starred in the notorious Cosby Show. The show was quite controversial as it portrayed an middle class black family with a father, a situation which wasn’t often portrayed in the 70s. XO is playing a pun on “Bill” Cosby’s name, while saying he wants to make the amount of money Cosby does.
