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A reference to Michael Jordan who is widely regarded as the greatest basketball player of all time. Jay Rock is stating that he is the best to ever do it when it comes to rapping.

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You generally have to smoke cigarettes for a long time before you see the effect of cancer, so it’s a slow death. Much in the same way, Jay Rock is killing you slowly so that you suffer more.

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Homophone for the word come. You can’t come around Ab-Soul, much like someone with no semen couldn’t cum, or ejaculate.

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This line references a female’s Menstrual Cycle. Just like the Menstrual Cycle, it’s becoming a cycle for rappers to stop spitting when Ab-Soul comes through.

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Cleverly continuing off the “heater” line above, Q acknowledges that it’s him and his crew shooting(or “heating” up) the streets of Phoenix.

Also, a phoenix in mythology is a literal bird created of fire; it’s very heated.

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He hopes you never get happiness and won’t lie to you about it.

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His life is reminiscent of rapper Coolio’s song “Gangster Paradise.”

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Trinidad James is from Atlanta, which is also referred to as A-Town

In actuality James was born in the country of Trinidad like his name suggests. He also spent sometime in New York and South carolina, since his parents split.

He also lived in Canada for a little bit.

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A “dime” is a term that is generally given to a woman who is a 10, or essentially perfect.

Therefore a “nickel” would be a woman who’s beauty is half that, and quite mediocre in appearance.

So he’s fucking far less beautiful women than most rappers would be fucking.

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Word play involving the musical terminology “high notes” and “low key”. “Hitting them high notes” refers to the fact that everything about her is attractive to the eye. “Low key” means to be mellow and not draw attention to oneself. Therefore there is nothing about her that isn’t flashy or eye-catching.

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