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In Finding Nemo, Nemo is a fish who goes missing, and his father has to look for him.
This line can be taken to mean that Drake is literally swimming in money so you can’t see him
Might also be worthy to note that “Nemo” is a syllable reverse of “Money”. It’s another pun as an elision (shorthand for a full word/phrase) as in “Need mo' money!”
I know G-IV pilots on a first name basis Drake, Kanye West, Lil Wayne & Eminem – Forever
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Old money, Benjamin Button, "What?" nothin' Drake, Kanye West, Lil Wayne & Eminem – Forever
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Kanye’s saying people are going to build statues of him just like they do for people from wealthy families (“old money”).
Kanye, who is actually young money but appears to be old money, is age-confused like Benjamin Button, who looked like an old man but was actually young.
Also: Note the Benjamins = $$$$$ diction.
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Lil Wayne once again refers to himself as a Martian (see “Phone Home”), as an explanation for the surrealism of his lyrics
“Space Jam” (a movie starring Michael Jordan) is a movie about aliens who compete against MJ and the Looney Tunes in a basketball game.
He’s also playing on the fact that Marvin the Martian is a character in Space Jam while simultaneously bragging that he wears Air Jordan XI’s, the sneakers that came out to coincide with MJ’s movie:
The reference to Jordan in this line could also be a clever continuation of Drake’s referencing Lebron James. Drake may be Lebron (the young hotshot superstar) but Lil Wayne is reminding everyone that he is Jordan, the undisputed, seasoned pro. Wayne’s whole verse is basically reiterates that idea over and over in lines like “let the king talk” and “this is my theme park” for example. Just my thought.
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Stack a couple grand to get theyself off they mama land T.I. – Rubber Band Man
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He bought his (probably Latin) girlfriend a very nice Mercedes-Benz
The rims have wide and skinny “lips” – the curved, inward-facing part of the rim from the end of the spokes to the outer edge of the wheel, which implies that he’s rolling on over-sized rims (visit CarGenius.com™ for more info)
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'Cause niggas like you be prayin' on my downfall
Hopin' I flop Big L – '98 Freestyle
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In Ontario when you buy liquor from the LCBO it comes in a brown bag that fits just the bottle. You see people drinking from the brown bag with booze in it and they are “faded off the brown.” Drake could also be drinking a brown liquor like whiskey.
Drake also plays on the name Nino Brown—the drug lord played by Wesley Snipes in New Jack City.
Its more likely that “faded off the brown” is referring to dope (heroin), which can be black, brown, and sometimes white in color, but most commonly it is a tan/brown powder. Faded is much more frequently used to describe someone under the influence of opiates than under the influence of alcohol. Thematically this interpretation also ties in more appropriately with the reference to “Nino” at the end of the line, which the previous contributor made note of. Nino Brown was selling drugs, not liquor, in the film New Jack City.
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brown = brown liquor, not brown bag. probably hennessy
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Brown is slang for Heroin and then he says Nino I would think that means he saying its the type of brown you get from drug dealers bc Nino Brown was a Drug Lord