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2Pac found a way to keep it G while still making money by appealing to mainstream audiences, a feat which many rappers try to accomplish but never do. The first group that 2Pac created before the Outlawz was also named Thug Life, who only released one album together before Pac’s untimely death.
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A bugle is a simple brass instrument that is used in the military, that announces events taking place on the battlefield. When Scarface loads his gun, a figurative bugle begins to play as he slaughters his enemies.
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The White Sheet is an informal word for the sheet they put over dead bodies before they are shipped off to the morgue, so people don’t need to look at them. Scarface says that he’ll shoot you, and you’ll get the white sheet put over your dead corpse.
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After every basketball game, the team goes and showers. The Bradster decides he needs to go take a shower, like he played ball for the Knicks, New York’s NBA team, because he was sweaty.
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A common expression, the breaks means an unfortunate occurrence, or something you didn’t want to have happen. Made popular by one of the first commercial rap hits ever, Kurtis Blow’s 1980 single of the same name.
With a joint, drinkin' some 8-ball Ice Cube (Ft. Lil Russ (USA)) – A Gangsta's Fairytale
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Ice Cube references the nursery rhyme Humpty Dumpty, but instead of using the original lines from the stanza, “Humpty Dumpty sat on a wall, Humpty Dumpty had a great fall”, Cube switched it up a little, having Humpty Dumpty sit “With a joint, drinkin some 8-ball”.
Red Riding Hood, and Little Boy Blue Ice Cube (Ft. Lil Russ (USA)) – A Gangsta's Fairytale
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There are 2 main gangs in L.A.; The Bloods (Red) and The Crips (Blue). A fight over colours is what happens when 2 gangs clash and have a fight. In this fairytale universe, Little Red Riding Hood is a Blood, because she wears red, and Little Boy Blue is a Crip, because he wears blue, and there was a dispute with their fellow gangs.
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