Resurrect through the birth of my seed, crime genetic QB Finest (Ft. Capone, Cormega, MC Shan, Mobb Deep, Nas, Nashawn, Nature & Tragedy Khadafi) – Da Bridge 2001
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Jetting, checking my message on the speaker
Bopping to Mona Lisa, brown reefer, 10 G's, gun and my Visa
CD cranking, doing 90 on the Franklin D. Roosevelt
No seat belt, drinking and thinking Nas – Watch Dem Niggas
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Based on a true story! As Nas told Complex:
I’d been pulled over and arrested at that time in a Lexus—I had no license and I had a gun on me.
Somehow the no license fact didn’t make the song, but he compensates by detailing a slew of far more reckless behavior: speeding (“jetting”), using a carphone or cellphone, weed, alchohol, no seatbelt (illegal in NY since 1984), loud music, and cash that he could lose in civil forfeiture (although I guess he’s prepared with his Visa card).
The speed limit on FDR Drive is just 40MPH.
The music is Slick Rick’s “Mona Lisa”, off the The Greatest Adventures of Slick Rick album – the same album Nas mentioned bumping in his whip in “Loco-Motive”.
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Different toilet, same shit, and I'm sick of explainin' this JAY-Z & Beanie Sigel – Streets Is Talking
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Rips the Michael Jackson song title “Pretty Young Thing”, this girl is the girl he wants to fuck/be with.
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Nas' Record label until 2005.
Nas suggests that Columbia is a part of the system built by Antichrist. He (unknowingly) was a tool or puppet in the hands of the ruling elite for almost 15 years.
Maybe Nas also hints at his contractual bounds with Columbia cause he launched his Ill Will imprint only circa 2k, five years after being signed.
Being signed in the mid nineties he most likely cashed only a few money in, eventually with a shitty deal. Over the following years majors decide to invest on east coast rap and went for new artists with big cheks (seis zeros). In the meantime Nas was stucked in is raw deal, doomed to be screwed up by Columbia for a couple more years.
That imprint was somehow a way to make more money from his release but he kinda had to roll up his sleeves to get it started. Hence the statement about being a slave to Columbia records and his comment about getting paid for it……
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A reference to Chef Raekwon’s classic album, Only Built 4 Cuban Linx, just like Raekwon was rapping about over the stove cooking crack in that album, Beanie is doing it for real to help his crew eat, or get money.
To be more specific, there was also a picture of Raekwon “cooking crack” in the OB4CL CD artwork.
And Cuban Links refers to chains. I think the sausage connection is overreaching.
Also play on words as Cuban links sausage is cooked over stove just lick crack