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Referencing the crooks from the last line, they could be bad bad people, who are running around, breaking the law, carrying guns and knives, don’t care about school. You can assume most of these would be in things like gangs.

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Using books that help in instructing young ones the do’s and don’t’s of society, of being a human. And teach him to stay away from bad people, the corrupt ones who tend to roam the bad neighborhoods with criminal intent and every wish to be everything but your friend

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Sins, well, if you follow certain religions, there are sins which are bad, bad things, and he’d talk to his brother about them. Let him know what was right, and what was wrong. What was a sin, and what wasn’t. Now that’s some brotherly love

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Eddie is saying that he’d love this “brother” as if he were his mother, father, and brother, all combined. Some deep ass love if you ask me

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Saying that he’s the man of the East coast, conflicting with Jay-Z as he is from New York City, also on the east coast. He is holding it down for his city of New Orleans, and anytime he goes even by the city, or maybe referencing the east coast as he is the “king” for the east side according to him.

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Calling out Jay-Z saying he don’t see his crew backing him up like they did with Nas, perhaps inferring that Jay-Z maybe lost the respect of his crew, or that he doesn’t even have a crew. Either way, Jay-Z doesn’t have anyone backing him up is what Wayne is saying

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Using the same line Jay-Z used to diss Nas saying that he couldn’t fuck with him, Wayne is saying that Rocafella nor Jay-Z can fuck with him alone. Not to mention YMCMB

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A play on Ether where Nas says

That ether, that shit that make your soul burn slow

Lil Wayne is saying that he is as bad as Ether, as deadly.

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First line he references to the previous where he is spending his throwback money from the rap game, it’s not money from selling crack subliminally hinting disrespect at Jay-Z for using money still from when he used to sell drugs. Second line is him saying that he’s so famous and popular among people, that he don’t even need to use his money. The third line says that any money that he does need to use, he knows he’ll get it back shortly after. And the last line is him saying one of the ways he uses that money is by going to strip clubs

TL;DR

He gets money

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Perhaps a possible play with the word Rocafella. Anyone who has seen a rock, will notice cracks in it as time will allow erosion and he may be saying Rocafella Records has reached it’s time. Saying that him and his crew YMCMB is exposing all the cracks and flaws within Rocafella Records, and saying that this beef between them is only causing more cracks to appear.

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