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His mom wants him to reach his goals in life and is praying for him too, but she also can’t help but want him to stay close to him, as his mother. Wordplay based around guns in “aims,” “sight,” and “shooting.”

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Some wordplay here, Wale used to be signed to Interscope and has also released a song called “Chillin'.” .

When the bloggers post enough of your music, major labels want to sign you, but Joey’s chilling with his current situation. He’s also stated before he refuses to sign with any major label:
https://twitter.com/joeyBADASS_/status/210491293271474177

According to his Tumblr, Joey actually thinks Wale would’ve been better off never signing to Interscope. .

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This is a clever play on words and somewhat of a double entendre. Braids, waves, and fades are popular black hairstyles (CJ Fly often wears braids, and Joey has a song named “Waves”), but here he is making a play on words by saying braids and waves (the hairstyles) are irrelevant when you catch a fade (get hurt/murdered).

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His friend called him looking for advice, going along with the Rikers Island meaning. He’s caught up in the streets and he’s trying to get out by becoming a godly man but he can’t seem to recover God.

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Referring to Stanley Tookie Williams, leader of the notorious Crip gang who was executed for his gang activity. Cassidy also isn’t the first one to speak on Tookie.

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He’s supporting rapper Lil Boosie who was charged with “paying $2,800 to Michael "Marlo Mike” Louding to kill Terry Boyd on October 20th, 2009", and Free Boosie was referring to his murder trial, which he was found not guilty of recently.

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A remix to the song “Rise and Shine” from the J. Cole album “Cole World: The Sideline Story”.

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Wiz Khalifa & Curren$y are probably the Method & Red of this generation in terms of popular pot-smoking rappers, that wordplay coupled with the actual meaning of the line of Redman knows how to get his paper.

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“Balling on my own ten toes” is also a clever way of saying he “stands on his own two feet.”

Now that Nipsey’s the big man in his city, he doesn’t have to listen to anyone. I think it’s safe to say he’s on his Hu$$le. Bino is also big on being an independent artist, and he might be highlighting that.

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A verse done for the HNS TV Rap Contest

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