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Stuart Scott is a former SportsCenter anchor, who passed away after nearly defeating cancer. He had a lazy eye as a result of being hit in the eye by a football while participating in training camp.

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Lil Wayne is the “New Orleans Nightmare” meaning the “baddest” (but bad means good like how kids say it) motherfucker in New Orleans

Hitler would also be a Nightmare for New Orleans since New Orleans is full of minorities who Hitler would want to have killed (this Hitler reference did not come out of nowhere – when he says “not see” in the previous line, it sounds like “Nazi”)

This is also a reference to the Nazi takeover of the French city of Orleans in World War II.

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Wow, a double entendre executed so effortlessly.

Click is a movie starring Adam Sandler, in which Sandler’s character has a “Universal” television remote that he can use to control the world around him such as forcing you to watch Lil Wayne TV 24-hours a day

Lil Wayne also does things for his people (his “clique”), like Sandler, who has a proclivity for getting his friends cast in all his movies (think Rob Schneider)

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“Magic” is being used here as a double entendre, referring to both Magic Johnson (a basketball player who’s done very well “bouncing back” from HIV) and actual magic (using the term “abracadabra”, a very famous phrase used by magicians).

FUN FACT: Lawrence Kushner writes in his book, The Book of Words: Talking Spiritual Life, Living Spiritual Talk (page 11) that the word “Abracadabra” is derived from an Aramaic phrase meaning “I create as I speak":

According to the Hebrew Bible, God made the world with words. God just spoke, and the world became reality. (The Armaic for “I create as I speak” is avara k'davara, or, in magician’s language, abracadabra.)

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Jay is not a Crip, a LA gang whose color is blue, but he is a Yankee fan, his blood is as blue just like the team logo background.

Blue blood is also an English idiom for nobility, from the Spanish phrase, “sangre azul.” For Jay it’s a way of saying not only that he is noble, but he is considered “rap royalty.”

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Apparently Kanye is not overly concerned with the safety of his loved ones, but he does want them to have fast, expensive cars (“whips”).

Furthermore, Kanye plays on the meaning of “family whips”. Volvos are from Sweden, where they are the stereotypical family car. There’s even a saying: “Volvo, villa, vovve,” meaning “Volvo, house, dog,” implying a very average life.

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The American Express Black Card, reserved for the richest of the rich. You need to establish a 250K per year spending pattern over several years in order to be approved

Black card

Apparently, unlike his protege, Jay doesn’t have a preference between black card and African-American Express

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The brand name-naming in this section is reminiscent of American Psycho; from Ovid to Snoop Dogg to Easton Ellis, the hygiene poem is a “classic”

Ovid, The Art of Love, Book I Part XIV: “Look Presentable”

Neatness pleases, a body tanned from exercise:
A well fitting and spotless toga’s good:
No stiff shoe-thongs, your buckles free of rust,
No sloppy feet for you, swimming in loose hide:
Don’t mar your neat hair with an evil haircut:
Let an expert hand trim your head and beard.
And no long nails, and make sure they’re dirt-free:
And no hairs please, sprouting from your nostrils.

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Slick Rick – one of the most influential Golden Era rappers – was known for his storytelling style of rap. This song is a cover of his 1985 classic with Doug E Fresh, “La Di Da Di”.

For those interested in intellectual property law, “La Di Da Di” was one of the first cases to bring up the now-established Fair Use defense of its sampling.

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This is a reference to AZ’s existentialist hook on “Life’s A Bitch” by Nas:

Life’s a bitch and then you die

Jay takes the personification of life even further by fucking her, enjoying her while he can.

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