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Clever shit, if you are still driving and dead the you’re a ghost. So you’ll be ghost riding ur whip, also a dance

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Hes trying to figure out whether hes slicker or flyer, yet at the same time implying that hes both slick and fly.

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Loves his home, hates the reality of it. Harshness

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Sliced they doors and product. No time to prepare/make it doper

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Lotto is an Italian shoe company that specializes in soccer shoes and cleats, but they also make shoes for:

  • Tennis
  • Running
  • Leisure

Game is extremely athletic, so he could have been rocking any of these as a youth.

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A play on the old “There’s no I in Team” chestnut that your Little League coach told you when you complained that you weren’t getting any at-bats even though you were clearly better than Jake Stupak I mean Jesus that kid can’t hit a fucking tee-ball!

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*Double Entendre…

  • “Diamonds are blinding” referring to marriage rings, and how he prematurely decided to marry his wife due to being blinded by false love. This is a follow up line to the previous line “She came to me when her man caught a sentence”. This is when Carmen hooked up with Nas when the man of her previous relationship was put in jail.

  • Or Nas refers to the period before Stillmatic that he went more and more commercial and showed up in videoclips with fancy clothes, diamonds etc. His whole style moved witha a ‘change of pace, lighter load’ but now he is straight again (making real music instead of seeking commercial and finacial succes)

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A Chevy El Camino Super Sport is an El Camino with a signature performance option package installed

Such a car would be perfect for the illegal street races mentioned in this line, done in the darkest of corners where the police won’t stumble.

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Stool is supposed to be soft-if you get that fiber. So if you are fake AND soft, no reason for Nas to have a modicum of respect for you. Plus Nas is the observer, sees all this shit happen regularly.

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Nas is bragging, telling the women to imagine him as their husbands-which they will probably do since this is Nasty Nas we’re talking bout.

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