Brain cancers cause tumors to grow in your head.

If you get a brain tumor, you may need to have it surgically removed which would require the surgeon to “Split your wig”. “splitting your wig” is also a phrase that means to shoot you in the head.

Two symbols of the NY boom bap renaissance, the Crooklyn Dodgers (Masta Ace)

and the Shaolin Clan, who need no introduction.

This line can be interpreted as wordplay – “shot” can also refer to a sniper shot; that’s why he’s glad she stayed still (it’s harder to miss a shot when the target is moving).

Joey’s bar is a throw back to the the hook from Jay-Z’s Izzo (HOVA).

Up in NY we got bodegas.

But over in the Chi they got their food and liquor stores.

Cinnamon is sweet.

“Flow sweet” to some may also sound like “floor sweet.” Cinnamon is a spice from the ground.

Joey is, “deep,” in love. A play on words, as deep in love (deep in water) ties in with the prior “Sea World” reference.

Kendrick’s familiar with how Customs works due to how much he travels. We know Kanye would be proud!

“Killed it” has two meanings – he killed the track, but also slept the stewardess earlier in the song. Since he told her to “jump off his dick,” she’s not impressed and called the cops on him as the plane landed.

A clever continuation of the “life’s a bitch” metaphor of the previous line: If you came in the sheets, it could mean you did prematurely and didn’t even get it in. So if life’s a bitch, Cole’s saying don’t give up, don’t give in early. Keep at your dreams.