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Ganja is another word for Marijuana

EZ Widers are a type of rolling paper used to roll joints of either Tobacco or Marijuana

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Tupac Shakur created the album Thug Life Volume 1 with a group he created that went by the name Thug Life which included fellow rapper and friend Big Syke and ‘Pacs brother Mopreme Shakur

While Jay Z has his album The Blueprint (A widely accepted classic)

Also The Blueprint 2: The Gift & The Curse

and The Blueprint 3

Crooked I gives you the blueprint for how to live the thug life through his lyrics and his actions.

If he was reciting both of these albums, he’d be giving you the blueprint and thug life, just from his voice

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Joell Ortiz is from Brooklyn one of New York Citys five boroughs

His name is on fire in Brooklyn, it rings meaning everyone is talking about him and how great his music is. He can still go back to Brooklyn and chill on the block where he used to sell drugs and other people still do because he has the street credibility to do so. That’s real shit and he isn’t scared of anyone there because he is respected

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Kareem Abdul Jabbar is an NBA legend. Well known for his incredible hook shot.

So, in turn he owed a lot of his career and money to that shot, here he is in action.

Skyhook Highlights

Method gets his money off the hook in a different way.
The slang saying “off the hook” simply means bomb, outstanding, incredible, pretty much anything good. Method Man is getting his financial situation straight.

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Saint Nicholas Avenue is a street in NYC which runs through Washington Heights, Harlem and Inwood.

Asap Rocky who is also on this track happens to come from there.

Saint Nicholas (Santa Clause) would be doing his work in the snow. The work that he copped was probably cocaine, which is also called snow.

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Ralph Ellison is a novelist and a scholar. He is most known for his novel Invisible Man

One of Styles' nicknames is Ghost, he is a man but Ghosts cannot be seen, hence an invisible man.

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A reference to the stunt man Super Dave Osborne.

The Tribe either flips rhymes, or flips out (loses their tempers) when emcees don’t stay in their lanes. Super Dave would do stunts, and they would often not end how he hoped, causing him to flip out afterward either temperamentally and/or physically.

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He will rob jewelry shops to make money if he’s poor again

Crooked I explains in this video a time where he drove a truck through a store with some of his homies, and they stole everything inside the store, this well could be referring to that moment in his life

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The news of what happened is what everyone was talking about last year in his hometown of Fayetteville, North Carolina, “The Ville.”

He said it was real ass shit, because he heard it in the Ville. The people he would have heard it from there are the people he trusts, and knows wouldn’t lie to him

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A lot of his target audience is too caught up in the simple artists in the radio mainstream, “The industry flow” is basically pointing out that a lot of rappers recycle the popular flows out right now

Drake and Big Sean both think they created this flow

Big Sean on Drake “stealing” his flow

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