This line can be read in two ways:

• You can be considered a rapper as good as the last one you “killed” with your rhymes.

• In the streets rank you’re considered as good as the last guy you literally killed.

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He doesn’t care about all the talks on the street and he won’t waste time confronting the people who talk behind his back, he just focuses on earning money.

Jay’s car is so expensive that behind the driver seat there’s a small TV, just like you can find on planes or trains. At the time this song was released though, it was much more expensive and rare than now.

VVS is an acronym for Very Very Slightly (Included), one of the highest levels of purity for a diamond. The necklaces he wears are top-gamma only.

He exposes everything he has, presumably to impress the new guys, a shiny Rolex and some necklaces with diamonds. VVS is an acronym for Very Very Slightly (Included), one of the highest levels of purity for a diamond.

Two biblical references:

• The first line refers to Gen 7:12 KJV, God made it rain for 40 days and 40 nights on earth to cleanse it and start over.

Before he can return to the game, all the unworthy people need to be taken out. The rain he’s talking about is made of bullets, not drips.

And the rain was upon the earth forty days and forty nights.

• The second line is a reference to Christ’s resurrection, he came back to life three days after he was crucified. Just like Christ did, he’ll come back to life.

He’s from Brooklyn, New York on the east coast but he visited the west coast as well for business, and in both coasts he had to fire his guns at someone.

Often he got himself in shootouts with various people, just a bullet wasn’t enough to get things done, he had to shoot an entire magazine before it was over.

A snub nose is a particular kind of handgun:

As he’ll have to deal with dealers and other people who grew up in the streets he needs to be ready in case they try to confront him.

Never bring a knife to a gunfight