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Here, Jay-Z uses auto-tune for a fleeting moment, creating a tension with his hatred of the device evidenced in “Death of Auto-tune” a year after this song was released

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You’d be smart, if I steal your chain, to give me a call. I just might sell or give it back to you

Or, if he’s using “Young” as shorthand for his full name, he could be saying “Call me ‘brain stacks’ – my favorite nickname – and I might give you your chain back”

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The East side of Atlanta is where the drug dealers play their “bag games” (tossing around the ziplock of crack like it was a football)

Read along with “check your bags”, playing bag games could mean tampering with a bag of drugs before selling it so that it’s lower quality / more profitable

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(this actually happened)

Kanye called Jeezy: “Hey, Jeezy, I have this beat I want you to rap on called ‘Can’t Tell Me Nothing’; will you write a rap for it?”

Jeezy: “I’m sorry bro, I don’t write, I’m totes unlettered…but I’ll ad-lib something!”

Now normally, Jeezy wouldn’t even bother to ad-lib, but Kanye sold 3 million records; what ‘Ye wants, 'Ye gets

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An allusion to the classic 2Pac song “Picture Me Rolling”; Jeezy urges haters to imagine him with the mind’s eye

JEEZY: did you remember to register to quote Pac?

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Jeezy’s album The Recession – which had the original version of “Put On” (featuring Kanye) – appeared in 2008; Jeezy dropped, then Lehman dropped, and look where we are now

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Plumbers' clog remover of choice:

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Crisco is a popular brand of shortening (semi-solid fat used for baking)

When looking for something interesting to write about Crisco, I found a textbook Wikipedia censorship gaffe. Under trivia:

Crisco was, at one time, a favoured lubricating agent for fisting

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Dementia (meaning “deprived of mind”) is a serious cognitive disorder

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Quintuple entendre people! The buzz he’s talkin about was:

  1. his buzz cut when he first blew up.

  2. the amount of publicity he had when he almost overdosed

  3. the actual buzz the fans are producing for him.

  4. the buzz of the defibrilator used to revive him following an OD.

  5. The high one gets when using drugs or alcohol is also called a “buzz”

Reference to Em’s drug problems in the period between Encore (2004) and Relapse (2009)
This line could also refer to when he attempted suicide back in 1997 by overdosing on Tylenol shortly after the release of Infinite.

A buzz for the average person is the result of a couple drinks or a puff of a joint–even a cigarette for some.

This line suggests that a buzz for Eminem is an overdose (in parallel to over-performing). Hence: Eminem has an outrageously high drug tolerance (as opposed to other rappers who get a buzz from less good performance).

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