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This is a revisited line from one of 50 Cent’s older songs – U Not Like Me

If you get shot and run to the cops – you not like me

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50 Cent was very close to Jay, a close friend who showed him the ropes of rapping and songwriting – Jay being Jason Mizell/Jam Master Jay of the group; Run DMC


1997 was also the year when 50 Cent released his first ever song, “The Glow of a Thug”

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p8iPO-0m9nc

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This is a reference to the first verse on “High All The Time” from his debut album: Get Rich or Die Tryin'

Spent the night in Central Booking for smoking some bud

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Eminem shouts out G-Unit – whom he was very close to during their prime. Both G-Unit and Shady Records are subsidiaries of Interscope Records.

G-Unit without the hyphen is Gunit/Gun It which was mentioned in the previous line

0 to 60 hop in and gun it

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To grow on trees: means to be in abundance; which is what 50 and his team have a lot of – cocaine bricks. A single brick is about as much as $30k which flaunts 50 Cent’s wealth.

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This line is similar to that of Timothy 6:10

For the love of money is a root of all kinds of evil.

50 Cent would also later go on to amass a net-worth of $125 million, now that’s a lot of power, envy and evil!

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