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I know that I’m the brokest person in the room yo Dee-1 – Jay, 50, and Weezy
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All 3 of these moguls have been featured on Forbes' Hip-Hop Cash Kings lists at some point in time. .

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merc CyHi – Ring Bellz
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Murder. Merc is slang for kill because MERCenaries kill for money.

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Bad ass nigga, I am like Boosie DOM KENNEDY – 1997
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Lil Boosie goes by the nickname Boosie Badazz because of his thuggish ways. .

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But she call me big papa Wiz Khalifa (Ft. Big Sean) – GangBang
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Big Sean is into cougars, and they are old enough to have a son his age but because he is the man, they call him big papa. .

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Sean often call himself BIG. I think he borrowed this one too cuz one of Notorious' aka was Big Poppa.

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Pl-, Plus Q gave me some Kush and some Nuvo Kendrick Lamar – Look Out For Detox
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Schoolboy Q – rapper and Kendrick’s close friend – has given him weed and liquor. Hopefully, there’s no angels dust in that blunt…

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Shoved off the porch when I was like six Kendrick Lamar – Look Out For Detox
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The porch is usually associated with being a safe place, still close to home. When you get off the porch, you’re in the real world with much more danger. Kendrick didn’t have the luxury of growing up gradually, he was shoved off his porch into his rough surroundings at a young age.

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The lyric is “Jumped off the porch.” In Compton, when someone is said to have “come off the porch,” it means they have entered the drug game. That’s why he went into the bar about his uncle’s house being raided by K-9 units (drug-sniffing dogs)

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Tricking, king of the court, small forward, Cavs Wale – The Friends & Strangers
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“Tricking” is slang term for spending all your money on a woman. Since he’s tricking, he’s the king of courting the young lady.

This is also a reference to LeBron “King” James and the fact that small forwards maneuver and trick their way to get the ball in the net.

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Some runnin' with two K's though, we some live niggas Wale – The Work (Workin')
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He is talking about AK-47s, and also refers to the videogames NBA 2K Basketball and NBA Live Basketball.

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this line has a double meaning & metaphor
1.other niggaas play 2k & hie niggas play nba live
2.then his niggas get live as in fighting whilst other niggas use guns

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with some diamonds that's VVS Tyler, The Creator – Seven
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VVS is a high rating on a scale that indicates the clarity of diamonds.

Given the context of the earlier part of this line, this could be a reference to Diamond Co.’s VVS shoes which are on the site. .

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CCS is a skate shop that sells skate shoes and boards. Shop.ccs.com

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The view from my rocking chair, you would not believe Curren$y – King Kong
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This is a metaphor for the success Curren$y has reached. Spitta is also speaking of an actual rocking chair, which at that time was located at Dame Dash’s crib in Saugreties. It is referred to later in his song “Michael Knight” where he claims “the view from the rocking chair improves” because they moved the chair to Dame’s cabin in Carmel, NY.

Skip to 5:53 to hear him speak on the chair and his experiences at the cabin:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=odmVlO-_FYU#t=352s

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