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“Giant,” a modern Western epic released in 1956 that starred Liz Taylor and Rock Hudson, was James Dean’s third and final movie. (The other two were “East of Eden” and “Rebel Without a Cause.”)
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The Koch and that Heckler, then nigga we warrin'
I let my pistols speak for me and all of 'em foreign
Click-clack, comprende? I'm criminal-minded 50 Cent – The Invitation
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As mentioned before, Fiddy let’s his guns talk for him and here he lays out various weapons he has his hands on. He has mastered the art of guntalk and it’s like a foreign language to many people. ‘'Click-clack’‘ is only one of many languages his guns are capable of speaking!
Furthermore, Sig (German), Taurus (Brazillian) and Heckler & Koch (German) are all foreign gun manufacturers. Criminal Minded is a nod to one of Boogie Down Productions' albums of the same name.
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This is a reference to brothers John F. Kennedy and Robert F. Kennedy, both of whom died at the hands of assassins in 1963 and 1968, respectively.
Laura Nyro wrote this song shortly after RFK’s murder.
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Britain has a TV licence tax to fund the British Broadcasting Company (BBC), but that’s not what’s going on here.
Rather, the British suburb-dweller who is the protagonist of this song couldn’t afford to pay cash for his radio and TV, so he got them on credit, and is paying seven shillings a week to the store that sold them to him. This was known as “hire purchase”.
A common alternative was to enter into a rental agreement. The main company providing radios and televisions was “Radio Rentals”.
7 shillings (pre-1971 currency) = 35 (new) pence.