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reference to the last line, “Whom’s fucking with we?”

Whom is a direct object and we is a subject noun, so the types of speech should be flipped in order to be correct grammatically: Who and us.

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He creates magic in the studio, so his pen is more like a wand.

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He reminisces seeing his pastor preach in fancy clothes.

Cyhi envisions himself preaching about real life too.

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‘Lac = Cadillac

Cut Supreme = Cutlass Supreme

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A punchline about the labeling on some products written “MAN” for date of manufacture.

He will be “the man” until he “expires” or dies…

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New fans aren’t used to “Nasty” Nas from the Illmatic days. Nas has surely garnered new fans on Lil Wayne’s 2011 Carter IV “Outro”, which many believe is the best verse on the album.

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Nas is from Queensbridge, New York and has been repping it in his music since Illmatic times. There is no rapper from QB who can be compared to Escobar.

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Gangs threw up their signs from their various blocks, which is another word for neighborhood or street/corner. In this case, block is going to be the one and deuce or 1-2, 12th St.

It’s no coincidence that he also had a song called “Duce-One” earlier in his career.

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In an old McDonalds’s commercial starring Michael Jordan and Larry Bird, they played a game of HORSE and kept coming up with crazy shots.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_oACRt-Qp-s

There was a remake with LeBron James and Dwight Howard as well. In the remake the rules, instead of no dunks just jumpers, were no jumpers just dunks. As he is talking about a dunk he is probably referencing both.

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Your album wasn’t good enough to get anyone’s attention.

It flopped.

Wordplay using the old school storage device, the floppy disk.

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