Nodima

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About Nodima

I write reviews for PopMatters.com, as well as more personal reviews for rateyourmusic.com. I keep a detailed list of the best hip-hop albums ever called Run That Shit, as well as yearly lists for more focused browsing. They can be found at the following links:

PM: http://www.popmatters.com/pm/archive/contributor/517

RYM: http://rateyourmusic.com/~Nodima

Run That Shit: http://rateyourmusic.com/list/Nodima/run_that_shit__nodimas_hip_hop_handbook

You can also find me on Twitter, though I don’t use it much unless someone gets @ me: http://twitter.com/#!/Nodima

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And all they got time for is four swisher dimes
Committing crimes amped off water UGK – Touched

Young kids in Port Arthur are often mixed up off a combination of marijuana and PCP, rolled into thin blunt wraps such as Swishers. Their decision making is imbalanced, causing them to commit idiotic crimes.

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You niggas better be gettin some cut and get my name out yo mouth UGK – Touched

Stop talkin' about me and get some pussy you lame motherfuckers.

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Shawty I can carry you like Mariah Shawty Lo (Ft. Lil Wayne & Trey Songz) – Supplier

A reference to Mariah carey, who is larger than Lil' Wayne and thus an impressive show of strength as well.

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He can spend money but we can spend a day little mama Shawty Lo (Ft. Lil Wayne & Trey Songz) – Supplier

Unlike Trey Songz Lil' Wayne would rather spend quality time with a woman than whip out his pocketbook.

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I married Snow White cause she making me cream Shawty Lo (Ft. Lil Wayne & Trey Songz) – Supplier

A heartfelt double entendre, Shawty Lo uses Snow White as a metaphor for cocaine and explains that she is making him money, making him cum, or both.

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I got diamonds round my neck like a baseball field Shawty Lo (Ft. Lil Wayne & Trey Songz) – Supplier

While most rappers carry fairly impressive, gaudy chains (see: Gucci Mane), Shawty Lo opts instead for the rarely sighted four-diamond chain.

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Made huge stacks of money, counting 500,000 (half a mill) Shawty Lo (Ft. Lil Wayne & Trey Songz) – Supplier

Shawty Lo has finished selling a large amount of cocaine for $500,000, which he’s unsure his audience knows is half of $1,000,000.

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You know I ain't Sonny Bono but I play with them skis Shawty Lo (Ft. Lil Wayne & Trey Songz) – Supplier

Most famously referred to on Eminem’s “Who Knew”, Sonny Bono died while skiing in Nevada in 1998. Shawty Lo is claiming he will not be killed while navigating the slopes of cocaine distribution.

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I ain't talking bout Alicia, but I play with them keys Shawty Lo (Ft. Lil Wayne & Trey Songz) – Supplier

A reference to Alicia Keys, who has nothing to do with drug smuggling anyway.

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Shoulda been a locksmith the way I handle them keys Shawty Lo (Ft. Lil Wayne & Trey Songz) – Supplier

Shawty Lo believes that handling kilos of cocaine qualifies him to shape keys and locks as well as handle locks for which the key is lost.

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"2 of them shits was due / 1 was "nah", the other was Illm..." (Jay-Z – Takeover) | rejected

The actual lyric is “two of them shits was due”. Jay is off-handedly dismissing I Am… and Nastradamus without directly referring to them, while alluding to the streets' perception that Nas had sold out with It Was Written and Illmatic was as classic as it’s claimed to be. However, those albums were only good because they came when he was still hungry and he has lost his fire for rhyming.

"Our third eon, that's what the fuck we on" (Kanye West – Primetime) | accepted

An eon is an indefinite, undefined period of time. Most rap careers are fleeting and flame out after 5-10 years, yet Jay-Z is still just as strong a name after three eons — in hip-hop’s case decades, apparently — as he was when he first hit the scene.

Danny Brown – Drinks on Me Lyrics