Clipse is comprised of Malice and Pusha T. The word “malice” literally means the “desire to inflict pain, harm, or injury to other.”

So, Malice, as his stage name suggests, is the meanest of the two, but “mean” is also used to describe a rapper (like Malice) that is particularly skilled.

Pusha has lost many comrades over the years, among them The Clipse’s former manager, Anthony Gonzalez, who was indicted for leading a $20 million drug ring that distributed throughout Virginia Beach.

Pusha has a similar line on “Alone In Vegas”.

Clever play on “Club Med”, the all-inclusive vacation resort. His friends are in federal prison doing ‘football numbers’

Similar to a line from his “Blow Freestyle”, from his Fear Of God mixtape.

Here, he fuses the names of the two Star Wars films, Attack Of The Clones and Return Of The Jedi to reference that very line.

A couple of Pusha’s friends are still selling crack rocks, sailing away from the cops in their CL-class Benzes.

This is also a reference to the classic song, “They Reminisce Over You,” by Pete Rock & CL Smooth. “T.R.O.Y.”, as it’s commonly written has come be the staple Hip Hop tribute song, thus, it is fitting that Pusha would allude to it when recalling his friends who are either locked up or dead.

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Pusha took a lot of heat from the students at Yale University for his line in Young Jeezy’s “Illin” about Annie Le, a Yale grad student who was killed and stuffed in a wall at the university. On the song, Pusha rapped:

Stuffing dead prezzies in the wall like
the Yale bitch

Pusha refuses to let the Yale students vilify him when he’s taking the game to another level, as Nas did.

But, Pusha believes the murder situation in urban environments is more worthy of attention than the murder, albeit tragic, of one person. In this way, Pusha is thinking about the broader picture, as opposed to the Yale students' narrow lens.

Jay-Z is known for recording songs in one take in the studio. He listens to the beats and the lyrics come naturally. He recorded his verses to his seventh album, which was released as a double album, kinda; The Gift is the first, and The Curse.

Few people can make albums as important as The Gift and The Curse. It got mixed reviews, though.

Jay’s albums tend to set the summer on fire. Indeed his seventh album, The Blueprint 2: The Gift & The Curse, peaked at no. 1 on the Billboard charts.

A reference to the first installment of the Back To The Future sci-fi film series in which Marty McFly finds himself 30 years in the past. Just like him Jay keeps revisiting the past when listening to the current rap talent, because he and his rap skills were so ahead of the time. The audience can’t understand the greatness of Hov’s visionary works yet.

His discography, even at the time of this freestyle, was immensely impressive. His debut, Reasonable Doubt, and his sixth album, The Blueprint, are commonly considered some of the greatest albums of all time.

The speed metaphor continues here from the previous line. He is making a point of slowing down so that he won’t pass his enemies twice, ensuring that the rap game will be a bit more “fair.”