And for the dough I raise, gotta get shit appraised

from Jay-Z – Politics As Usual Lyrics on Rap Genius

If you want to refinance your house, or take a loan on it, the bank makes you get your house appraised to find out how much it’s worth

Jay-Z is playing on this middle-class finance concept: he’s warning Tito that his product better be high-quality, or else his powerful, thug/mafia financial backers will, umm, “foreclose” on his ass

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