https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=av5xw1ak5Qs

The element I’d sample is the part which sounds like a futuristic metronome and is constant throughout the track.

This is a nod to the triple beam scale commonly used by drug dealers to get exact weight measurements.

This is Mr. Lee. He appears throughout Clipse’s 2006 album Hell Hath No Fury as the groups conscience. He does the same on Pusha’s latest album, Darkest Before Dawn: The Prelude.

He appears on three records on this album.

Clipse (and Pusha throughout his solo career) always have classic intros. Part of why they’re so great is because aside from being titled “We Got It 4 Cheap,” the intro is usually just titled “Intro.” No one does this anymore.

Inspired by a classic line from “Mr Me Too”:

These are the days of our lives and I’m sorry to the fans
But the crackers weren’t playin' fair at Jive

Which in turn, is a tongue-in-cheek nod to Days Of Our Lives the TV show. Like the Hollywood drama, Pusha and Malice portray a particular lifestyle. The only difference is, they truly lived it. From their days as teenage drug dealers in Virginia, to issues with the feds, the last 20 years really were “the days of their lives.”

Most of Meek’s verse is addressed to Drake, the pair have been beefing since July 2015 when Meek accused Drake of not writing his own raps. While it seems Meek’s prepared to stake his career on winning the battle with Drake, he still wonders if he loses, will there be anyone left by his side?

“Catch you out in traffic” implies a drive by shooting, while a Gold 41 refers to a 41mm face on a watch.

On an episode of MTV Cribs, teenage Drake gives a tour of his home and shows off his sneaker collection. While Nike and Yeezy are both popular sneaker brands, Meek specifically mentions the Jordan 5’s, one of the most popular sneakers of all time.

https://youtu.be/7OisZAqxeEI?t=175

When Meek was this age, he was in the streets, counting money in his shoe boxes. Also, note the play on words—the Nike logo is as a “check” and “check” (as in a money) is inside the box.

This is a sexual innuendo and reference to former NFL quarterback Matt Hasselbeck. Fab met up with an actress who has an attractive appearance and personality, but she’s from the hood, so she doesn’t know how to act around wealth, hence she’s a “bad actress.” He also copped her a matte handbag, a play on Matt Hasselbeck and maybe a reference to the $120k Hermes Matte Crocodile Skin bag.

The actress Fab is referring to could be one of his ex girlfriends. Amber Priddy, Tahiry Jose and Erica Mena are all small time actresses, appearing on shows like Love and Hip Hop New York.

Fab’s car is his penis. Even though he’s moved on from these girls, he speculates that if he offered them sex they’d say yes.

While the internet was making memes and clowning Meek after Drake dropped consecutive diss tracks “Charged Up” and “Back To Back,” the streets had his back.

Drake also projected a slideshow of memes during his performance of “Back To Back” at the 2015 OVO Fest in Toronto.

In an interview with Noisey, Pusha T used the exact same words as Meek:

I just feel like the principles of 2002 aren’t the principles of 2015. You know? I listen to both, I listen to both Meek music, I listen to Drake music, both, you know. I don’t know, I just watched how people handled it, and I watched how the media handled it, and I just have to say that—you don’t crucify people who didn’t lie to you. And I sort of feel like people tried to crucify Meek, but he didn’t lie. You crucify people that lie to you; you don’t crucify the person that doesn’t lie to you, so. I think that is an example of where people are in the world, who the critics are, and so on and so forth.