While many rappers name out their professional sport star friends, Wale is true to his hood. He shouts out to his friends back home, playing basketball on a broken local court, like always.

He still stalks his old turf and will never stop repping DC. He “pimps” out his city to the world.

Wale’s style and flow is capable of taking on all of DC’s worst. He is hoping to inspire and raise his city, rejecting its crime problems.

Wale keeps away from the poor and weak rappers, keeping his crew tight and ambitious. Later, Wale disassociates himself from gangs, noting his desire to bring DC back to greatness.

A double entende, as Wale does not associate with weak men nor has sex with hoes.

A reference to his rap game’s muscles, which look like seams on the body sewn together, his jeans, as below, and the seam of DC that runs through him. Likewise, he always lets you see his seam by repping his city. Wale is obsessed with selvedge demin and will let you know.

Continuing the line above, Wale is a proponent of selvage, raw denim jeans. Raw denim is unwashed, leaving the jeans and dye to break in with your body movements and create an original pair each time.

Now that Nas is in charge of the rap game, he no longer has to make money as a criminal. His raps pull in all of the cash he needs.

Reference to the classic Bruce Lee/Chuck Norris martial arts film. Despite being 40 years old, the movie is still relevant and revered. Similarly, Wayne’s style never goes bad.

“I stay tight” plays off of “eyes stay tight,” a jab at the common racial stereotype. Likewise, his muscles stay as tight as those of Bruce Lee.

Wordplay. The bars on the side of a cradle are called arms and “being armed” also means he has a gun.

Leave it to T.I. to instantly make SWAG relevant again, with this pun on “get it popping”