You learn the worth of water without work, you thirst til you die, yup!
from Jay-Z – December 4th Lyrics on Rap Genius
Meaning
Water is a metaphor for crack: you figure out how important it is to have crack to sell when you have no drugs and thus can’t work as a drug dealer: without the work, you die of thirst
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