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He is trying to escape death so intricately that he compares it to a game of chess

He might be a novice chess player in this scenario, and understands there’s really nothing he can do about his situation (“three months left”). Chess is taking a little piece of his life, little by little, until he’s checkmated

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The pain he’s feeling is so bad that he believes it could be death, which he signifies by saying his soul is trying to move on… To Heaven

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He’s going to leave you’re show cancelled with no answer like Seinfeld left their fans with no answer to the outcome of the Good Samaritan violation… Although Jerry would argue going out on top and being cancelled are very different things

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Jay’s dad left him and drove him into a life of crime.

He is most likely referring to the incident on 2nd of December 1999, when he was accused of stabbing record executive Lance “Un” Rivera for what Jay-Z perceived was Rivera’s bootlegging of Vol. 3… Life and Times of S. Carter. The stabbing allegedly occurred at the record release party for Q-Tip’s debut solo album Amplified at the Kit Kat Klub, in Times Square, New York City. Jay-Z’s associates at the party were accused of causing a commotion within the club, which Jay-Z allegedly used as cover when he supposedly stabbed Rivera in the stomach with a five-inch (127 mm) blade. He was also arrested on gun charge around the same time.

Check out NYPD’s confidential file on Jay-Z here!

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This could arguably mean that once his son graduates high school Game will be heading to Heaven…

It’s also subliminally saying that once Harlem (his son) doesn’t need Game anymore he will kill himself and hopefully be reunited with Billboard.

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He’s been to so many funerals that you would think he was a Christian (all the time spent at church)

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People are getting mad that Game has changed his style to more serious here, he explains that his BEST FUCKING FRIEND just got killed, he is in a different mind state

These bars have been considered Games best and most meaningfull 2 lines in his career.

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Before his death he was curious if Dr. Dre and Marshall Mathers felt him, which they did but Game couldn’t tell him because he was gunned down.

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He wishes that he was never let out of Prison so that he didn’t die on the outside.

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Hes wishing that as he left he could have caught up to him driving his monte carlo and give him his bullet proof vest so they could not kill him

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