There is a huge problem with pill abuse in the world. Lupe lays out the process that someone would take to become addicted to them. First they are for the pressures of everyday life and eventually just for the feeling they get.

Goes back to the tumbs comment, the fact that we have thumbs, the fact that we’re human, doesn’t make us smarter

Thewz is working with the popular quote, “walk a day in my shoes” here. He’s got enough to do in his own shoes, and can’t concern himself with having it another way.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JjbK4s2rDcI It’d be hard to turn down shoes from Richard Branson though…

G and Dime are both common amounts of weed that people buy. A G is a gram, and a dime is half of a gram.

Using exclusively cash, and stacking it up high no matter what, are all dreams of getting out of the ghetto.

While other rappers were at the strip-club, Rockie was in the studio trying to make a name for himself.

The lines work together, as both types of people are the same to Rockie. Wild Girls will be chill if he’s around, and guys will change their attitudes about him when they see him.

Rockie is working hard because soon enough, he wont be satisfied with where he is.

Reference to the above line: He says he lifts the eight up, but you can’t lift with him when it comes to money, success and guns.

Rockie is known for his smooth, effortless flows. While other rappers struggle to put together bars, he does it like its nothing.