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Nas drops a double entrende.

  1. Going with the previous line he’s the best at fucking.

  2. He’s the best ever at rap. Many agree, all because of this one album.

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Although there is a missing word in this line, Nas is comparing himself to Batman and the bat signal.

Whenever Batman (in this case Nas sees it, he comes to the scene).

This could also be a double entrende.

  1. He pops right up like the bat symbol would pop into the skyline.

  2. He arrives, to the scene to be a part of whatever is going down.

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Shelia E. was a grammy nominated singer and pianist, she also collabed with Prince who was mentioned in the previous line.

Like Nas, Shelia is still active with her music today.

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Nina Simone was an African American singer who preformed or wrote songs in a variety genres of music, (such as classical, jazz, the blues, and much more.) Given the time period he’s probably getting this album.

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The girl was trying to tell Nas they were inseparable and they would be together for as long as they were alive.

Remind you of anyone?

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The neighborhood where Nas grew up and was born in.

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Talking about a 45 colt handgun an extremely old weapon (dates back to 1872), and has an interesting history.

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Nas has mentioned Hennessy so many times next to Alize it may be one of his favorite drinks.

Hell, they even let him go on a tour of their spirit producing facility.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hGc_Yml5Bpw

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A closed casket is when at a funeral the victim or the deceased or so badly brutalized or mutilated that they would rather not so the funeral goers the body, so they close the casket to spare them the sight. Face lashes out against the police, who he believes were the ones to do this atrocity to one of his homies.

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Since we’re living in this 21st century, with many interactions being done via the internet and less face to face communication people have created slang and abbreviation in order to get their point or message across people are talking in acronyms as common language or entire sites being devoted to make sense of these acronyms or the new internet jargon.

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