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Yo, I'm making short term goals when the weather folds
Just put away the leathers, and put ice on the gold JAY-Z (Ft. Mary J. Blige & Pain In Da Ass) – Can't Knock the Hustle

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He sets short-term milestones and targets for himself frequently; these terms often last about as long as a season (Winter/Spring/Summer Fall).

When Winter changes for instance, it’s time to put away heavy coats and prepare for better weather, but the change in weather is a reference to a change in situation as well, you can’t wear your drug dealing clothes when you have a meeting with a music label. Gold bracelets with diamonds on them are more appropriate.

Hova talks about this in Decoded (page 201):

There’s a line in a song I did with Scarface, guess who’s back, still smell the crack in my clothes, and that’s real after you’ve been putting in work for a while. […] You still feel it coming off you […] especially when you’re sitting still for the first time in weeks, ass on a a hard chair in a carpeted room with the door closed and windows sealed and a man in a suit staring you down. I could practically see the shit floating off of me.

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He sets short-term milestones and targets for himself frequently; these terms often last about as long as a season (Winter/Spring/Summer Fall).

When Winter changes for instance, it's time to put away heavy coats and prepare for better weather, but the change in weather is a reference to a change in situation as well, you can't wear your drug dealing clothes when you have a meeting with a music label. Gold bracelets with diamonds on them are more appropriate.

Hova talks about this in *[Decoded](https://books.google.ae/books?id=rXeG6ivbdIcC&pg=PT201)* (page 201):

> There's a line in a song I did with Scarface, [*guess who's back, still smell the crack in my clothes*](http://genius.com/2530), and that's real after you've been putting in work for a while. [...] You still feel it coming off you [...] especially when you're sitting still for the first time in weeks, ass on a a hard chair in a carpeted room with the door closed and windows sealed and a man in a suit staring you down. I could practically see the shit floating off of me.

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“put ice on the gold” also is a double entendre referring to champagne (Cristal at the time) being on ice.

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I'll tell you what type of car to buy JAY-Z – Blunts And Armadale - Freestyle

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Usually the Maybachs are the cars that a rapper dreams of, he already said that and his boy Kanye did aswell.

Jay even used a “tuned” version of a Maybach for his Otis video later in his career.

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Rappers get nasty in the booth but I'm grosser JAY-Z (Ft. Kanye West) – Hate

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He’s sarcastically paying respect to other rappers who may refer to themselves as “Nasty” in a positive manner, but he is saying that he is far superior, by being far more than just “nasty”, and being “grosser”.

Hova is also making a pun on money saying he is grosser because he grosses more money than other rappers.

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Hova Song (Intro) JAY-Z (Ft. Pain In Da Ass) – Hova Song (Intro)

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Hova introduces the third volume of his trilogy with a few more facts about the rap game and the drug game.

This would be the last time Roc-A-Fella Records employee and noted collaborator Pain in Da Ass provided an intro for one of Jigga’s albums.

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Big thangs, thick chains, ain't shit changed
Get brain in the four-dot-six Range
Shit mane, switch lanes
Every town I hit, switch lames, bitch flip big 'caine JAY-Z, Beanie Sigel & Memphis Bleek – Parking Lot Pimpin'

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Taken from his Vol. 2… Hard Knock Life track, Reservoir Dogs:

Big thang, big chains, ain’t shit changed
Get brained in the four dot six Range
Shit main, switch lanes
Every town I hit, switch planes, bitch flipped big caine

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Yo, never lay your head where you holding them things
Keep the family then your business, nothing goes in between JAY-Z (Ft. Foxy Brown) – Paper Chase

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Never keep the drugs at home, never let your family buy drugs from you and never let them be part of your business or they’ll be used as a leverage by your foes.

Jay obviously learned this rules by his mentor Biggie and his Ten Crack Commandments, specifically numbers 5 & 7.

Number 5: never sell no crack where you rest at
I don’t care if they want a ounce, tell ‘em “bounce!”

7: this rule is so underrated
Keep your family and business completely separated
Money and blood don’t mix like 2 dicks and no bitch
Find yourself in serious shit

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Cris' sipper, six-dipper, wrist-glitter, nigga JAY-Z (Ft. Beanie Sigel & Memphis Bleek) – Change The Game

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Jay only likes the finest things in life. Whatever it’s champagne ([Even though he doesn’t like Cristal anymore]), fast cars like a BMW 6 or diamond watches, he won’t settle for nothing less than the best.

The “Cris sipper, six dipper, wrist glitter nigga”, line comes from “It’s Hot”

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Fourth album, still Jay, still spitting that real shit
Volume 3, still sold more records than Will Smith
Can't call this a comeback, I run rap, the fuck is y'all saying? JAY-Z (Ft. Beanie Sigel & Memphis Bleek) – Change The Game

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The Life and Times of Shawn Carter, Volume 3, Jay’s 4th album, sold 462,000 copies in the first week, as opposed to Will Smith’s Willenium selling 187,000 copies. Now that the Dynasty will sell a million copies again, people shouldn’t say that “Jay came back”, because he never left in the first place.

The second line is also a subtle dig at the person who was given major writer credits on Will Smith’s first two albums with Columbia Records: Nas.

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This is also a reference to LL Cool J’S opening line in his song “Mama Said Knock You Out”

Don’t call it a comeback, I been here for years

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This is also a subtle reference to one of the biggest songs Jay has ever ghostwritten: Still D.R.E. Notice how every time he says still there’s a track behind it reminiscing of how DRE said it in the song.

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It's the motherfucking Roc, bitch, who hotter than us?
Jay-Hov, 'bout to change my name to Jay Peso JAY-Z (Ft. Beanie Sigel & Memphis Bleek) – Change The Game

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The ROC is hot both musically and legally: they put out hot songs consistently but they’re also involved in lots of underground activities and are probably on the police’s radar.

“Peso” is Colombian currency, which is used by Jay to refer to the times in which he (allegedly) sold cocaine imported from Columbia.

There’s a bunch of Colombians coming in Friday, new guys. They said they got two keys for us, for openers. Kilo cocaine.

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Check your own videos, you'll always be number two JAY-Z – Ride Or Die

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In Jay’s eyes, Mase will always be second to B.I.G. and Puffy in the Bad Boys Records “food chain”. It also refers to the “Can’t Nobody Hold Me Down” video in which Puffy wears a jersey with #1 and Mase has one with the number 2 on it.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qMh_VsTuXtE

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