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Reference to rap song “Please Don’t Shoot Me Down” by…Lil Wayne

(self-allusions! Gee, looks like somebody is on their high-horse!)

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“Brain” is slang for blow job; Cambridge is a fine British university, as well as the city where Harvard and MIT are located

This is also a play on “Cambridge” as if he “came” from her blow job.

Basically, her blow jobs are really good

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In American football, a flanker is a wide receiver that lines up behind the line of scrimmage so that they have room to run (the same way that a hater starts running when Weezy confronts him)

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Wayne compares his previous life as a dealer in the warzone ghetto to trench warfare

Nowadays, Wayne has become bourgeossified, staying in fancy hotels like the Trump International

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Reference to the film Hustle & Flow, where the main character is a rapper who has to be in “his mode” to rap well

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Continuing the hyperbolic analogies, Wayne is as “fly” (cool/sexy) as…

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Also, it should be noted that stealth planes literally “fly,” as perhaps Wayne is convinced he can do after sufficient intoxication.

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Even if Michael Phelps didn’t smoke madd weed, he would still have a difficult time swimming out of a river he was dumped into with concrete shoes, mafia-style

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In the Madden football video game, you use the “hit stick” to hit someone very hard, causing their controller to vibrate longer than usual

However, the “game” Wayne is referring to is the rap game

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O-Dog from the film Menace II Society kills a store owner while holding his gun sideways

This scene was instrumental in popularizing the horizontal gun hold (i.e. holding your gun “thug style”) which looks cool but really puts a strain on marksmanship (unless you install a horizontal crosshair!)

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“Young Money” is Lil Wayne’s new record label, as well as one of his nicknames

The first Young Money album, We Are Young Money was released two months after this song/mixtape

Wayne mimics Dorrough’s original intro: “Yea buddy”

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