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Life's a Bitch Nas (Ft. AZ) – Life's a Bitch
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Life’s a bitch and then you die

Can’t say it much better than that. Nas and AZ get existential and reflect on their lives and life in general.

As well as being AZ’s debut on wax, this song is notable for the trumpet solo at the end, performed by Nas’s father, Olu Dara.

Nas wanted to sample Mtume’s “Juicy Fruit” but producer L.E.S. brought The Gap Band’s “Yearning For Your Love” instead, which was fortunate since The Notorious B.I.G. would use the Mtume sample on his single “Juicy” released the same year.

L.E.S. provided some background information about the track in an interview with XXL:

AZ was there. Nas was like, ‘A, you got something for this?’ A just went in the booth and spit it, and Nas came right behind him. AZ had a chorus. They vibed, and before I even blinked, I left the studio, went back to the projects, and niggas was like, ‘We love that Nas joint.’ I was like, ‘Damn. Word? How they get that?’

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After the hook was there, they was like, ‘Damn, you gotta spit, dawg.’ I was like, ‘Aight, fuck it. If you like it, you like it. You don’t, you don’t.’ I did it, and everybody liked it. That was it. It was history made.

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AZ verse has to be one of the best features if not the best ever.

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this song is sampled in all of Logic’s Young Sinatra’s (songs)

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Young Money, baby, we the shit, weak stomachs Lil Wayne – Ice Cream
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Like someone with a weak stomach/diarrhea, Lil Wayne is “the shit” (meaning “good”/“talented”)

Omg I’m gonna hurl!
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Rockstar tatted, big-money addict Lil Wayne – Ice Cream
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Lil Wayne has buttloads of tattoos, like a rockstar

With his next scheduled album Rebirth, Wayne seems to be trying to project more of a rockstar image

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And if you got beef, I put the biscuit on the patty Lil Wayne – Ice Cream
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Extended food conceit on “beef” (meaning dispute). “Biscuit” is slang for “gun”, so Wayne will shoot you if you beef with him

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And every day of the week is the first of the month Lil Wayne – Ice Cream
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The first of the month is when welfare checks come out; a great day for drug dealers

For Wayne, living in his enchanted candyland, every day is the first of the month (figuratively)

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It’s a reference to the last line “like a mutherfucka huntin'” Hunting seasons generally start on the 1st of any given month, anyone hunting would also put more effort into the hunt at the very start of the season

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Also an ode to the Bone Thugz and Harmony song 1st of Tha Month.

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Stop playing, I'm fresher than a Degree stick Lil Wayne – Ice Cream
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Play on “fresh” as “Fresh Prince” vs. “shower-fresh feeling” you keep all day with Body-Heat Activated™ Degree deodorant:

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Bitch, I go hard like the boy from "300" Lil Wayne – Ice Cream
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“Going hard” is slang for rapping well – Wayne compares his rhyme skills to the fighting skills of Leonidas from the film 300.

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Kush so strong, you can smell me coming Lil Wayne – Ice Cream
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Kush is marijuana

Another line from the original “Ice Cream Paint Job” – “Rims so big you can see me comin'”

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Actually, this one is a doubler. Wayne smokes such strong weed, you can both smell it on his clothing, but if you are intimate with him, you would be able to smell it also in his ejaculate.

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If you ain't the bank teller, don't tell me nothing Lil Wayne – Ice Cream
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If you aren’t giving him money he doesn’t want to hear from you

A reference to the song “Can’t Tell me Nothing” by Kanye West

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Finger on the button, nigga, just stuntin' Lil Wayne – Ice Cream
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Another reference to the original “Ice Cream Paint Job” which contains the line “Press one button car automatic start”

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