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Ridin around in his Jeep, Mikey doesn’t care much for speed cameras…

…just so long as he’s lookin fresh in that white tee.

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Aloe actually wrote this song after being made redundant in his career as a business consultant.

I was working as a business consultant and […] the company wanted to downsize and I was part of the chopping block. I figured I’d just focus on music until I had to get another job but I haven’t had to do that since then […] it was probably the best thing that happened to me

Check out the whole interview below:

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Only thing whiter than his coke is a white girl. This is a direct reference to Eddie Murphy calling Brooke Shields “the whitest woman in America” when discussing Michael Jackson taking her to an awards show.

http://youtu.be/hfP7XyMDyCw?t=1m25s

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Chuck’s playing on the idiom “a wolf in sheep’s clothing”. In other words, Chuck’s not pretending to be someone he’s not – he straight keeps it real.

Dances with Wolves was a 1990 film starring Kevin Costner, hence the reference in the previous line.

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As Pac has told us before, “only God can judge me.” Despite living his life as an outlaw (referencing his numerous arrests and time spent in prison), no one besides God knows the exact circum-stances surrounding his life.

“Outlaw” takes on a dual meaning here, as 2Pac was also the founding member of the rap collective Outlawz:

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2Pac reiterates sentiments expressed in “Bury Me a G” off the Thug Life album. However, Pac presumably would have wanted to be remembered as an artist and a revolutionary. He frequently stated that he was not a gangster – take this 1995 interview with the L.A. Times as an example:

Let me say for the record, I am not a gangster and never have been. I’m not the thief who grabs your purse. I’m not the guy who jacks your car. I’m not down with people who steal and hurt others. I’m just a brother who fights back. I’m not some violent closet psycho. I’ve got a job. I’m an artist.

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Listening to the ocean is often associated with being a good source of peace and reminiscing. From “Changes”, these quiet times may refer to the period of mourning after someone’s been killed:

The only time we chill is when we kill each other.

This is also not the first time Pac spit about smoking Newport cigarettes – in “Never Had A Friend Like Me” he raps:

See at night I watch the sky
I take another breath
I smoke my Newport to the butt
Like it’s the last motherfucker left

When he needs to organize his thoughts, Pac drives to the ocean and simply listens while smoking ‘Ports. Note the clever wordplay surrounding “coastin’”, referring both to being near the coast and the relaxed feeling as if everything is going your way.

Fun fact: a 2005 survey stated that 49.5% of cigarette sales to Blacks were Newports

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Tupac’s attitude changed drastically after his shooting in 1994 and serving time at Clinton Correctional Facility.

This statement from his prison interview pretty much sums it up:

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2pac suggests that perhaps he’s always been more inclined towards the life of a G, rather than something more wholesome.

He further questions whether this may stem from the circumstances he was in as a kid. Certainly being raised by a single mother who, for a period of time, was busy fighting her own battle against addiction, would have taken its toll.

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That joke you told bout Chuck not being dope? Hilarious!

Now he’s in a good mood cause he’s laughing and getting that money.

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