“Still Tippin” was Mike Jones’s first mainstream single off the Who is Mike Jones? album. These lines were sampled for a different song on the same album entitled “Back Then”, which was the second single released.

That “I said!” adlib on the 3rd repetition was later sampled in A$AP Rocky’s Purple Swag.

A girl who has a voice like Rihanna’s is also the girl who is holding the umbrella for shade while Chamillionaire relaxes on the beach.

#Get it?

The cycle that exists in the ghetto’s and hoods that the likes of Jay grew up in is a sick one and very difficult to break.

People of low socioeconomic status are more susceptible to drug addiction. Once drugs are introduced in to this environment, it’s very difficult to escape their pull. Either you’re using, or you’re selling.

Lil Wayne is suggesting that the world is his oyster. Wayne’s World is a 90s sketch turned movie starring Mike Myers, while Planet Rock is a 1982 album and song by Afrika Bambaataa & the Soulsonic Force.

David Copperfield was a famous illusionist in the late 1990’s that was known for making unbelievably large objects disappear. Jay cleverly suggest you disappear like Copperfield then uses clever word play with “go cop a feel” sounding like Copperfield’s name.

This is a Ghostface reference, as on Ghostface’s track “Flowers” he brags: “All my shit is bulletproof, bulletproof projects, bulletproof wallets”

These cops are pretty crooked. They are threatening to kill this man if he doesn’t do what they ask of him (which, if you read on, turns out to be pretty fucking shady).

Half-steppin' is a term synonymous with fronting and/or being fake. The term has gone down in hip-hop history after being used as the title of a classic rap song by Big Daddy Kane