To “push” is to hustle something, in this case drugs. Likewise, Wayne is “pushing” on, moving up in his career against the odds.

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Women know what Wayne is about. His clothes, car, and grill give off the “smell” of money.

Also, he has so much money that he smells like it.

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DMX has been through the streets, fame, and jail. He has pain. Ja Rule and Benzino have not, so they can expect a lesson.

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This song is all about his mindset and life. Listening to it gives his haters and critics a window into his world.

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It is “you know me.” Listen to it again…he draws out “know.”

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He has more money than you, forming a wall of wealth between you, normal, and him, famous and rich.

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When something travels at light speed, it cannot be seen. Gambino and his career are moving so fast that they, like light, are invisible.

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He’ll get so much money that your jobless self will be hired to wipe him.

Also, he’ll grow old and have to be wiped, a continuation of the “going long” line of above.

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Like Don Juan, a bandit romantic of literature, Gambino kisses and leaves the next morning, off to another show.
Also a possible triple entendre
1. He makes out with the girl (kisses her)
2. He leaves like a bandit would at a robbery.
3. He leaves from her like an enemy aircraft (the second definition of bandit) because he is literally taking a plane!

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The Crying Game was a 1992 movie featuring a lot of betrayal and violence. One character betrays their friends for money, leading Gambino to also forget bad friends for the money he gets as a rapper/actor.

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Sam Shantz
April 1st, 2013

The Crying Game includes three betrayals:
The 1st is the betrayal of an IRA soldier to the English soldier he has befriended when he attempts to kill him this betrayal is for his closely held ideology relating to the troubles in Northern Ireland and his belief that all of Ireland should be united and independent of British rule.
The 2nd is the “betrayal” of a transsexual woman who does not tell her partner that she is biologically a man a sort of betrayal to keep him (her partner) around.
The 3rd is the betrayal of the IRA soldier to his comrades whom he betrays for love.
The issue then, with this interpretation of the lyrics, is that none of the betrayal ever occurs for money and in fact money plays no role in the film whatsoever.
It seems odd that Gambino would reference such a film so directly when the line does not really make sense with the plot of the film (unless I’m missing something).
The only readily and apparent interpretation to me is that the transsexual woman in the story was biracial and did have relations of a sort with the IRA soldier. Hence “Fuck these niggas like The Crying Game."
(Also could be a reference to the song "The Crying Game” by Boy George but that makes even less sense than the movie allusion.)

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Gambino finds a paradox in his relation to haters. They walk all over him if he doesn’t act, but to act is to give them respect. What to do?

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