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Jokers at the top know the king is nothin' to play with Pusha T – H.G.T.V. Freestyle

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7 years

That’s just a play on the joker and king references in a card game. I play on my alias King Push here too.

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Half a year later, still ain't heard an album greater (yo)
The natives want me out of the office, back on the pavement Pusha T – H.G.T.V. Freestyle

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7 years

That bar came from a tweet. I was appointed president of G.O.O.D. Music and we were just signing Desiigner and lining up Kanye West’s Pablo album, working on the sequencing. Then I saw a tweet from @LowKeyUHTN that said “I wish we could get some music” — or something like that.

https://twitter.com/LowKeyUHTN/status/722105306537410561

It’s great that he wanted the music, but sometimes in the social media era there’s so much going on. I was in a different space than the people listening to my music. It was funny to see him say that, because he’s in tune to the industry, he’s in tune to what’s happening on the corporate side too. He knows those rumblings. So when he said it, it inspired that bar. That’s where it came from initially.

The G.O.O.D. Music presidency, that’s my second-calling, that’s my next offering as far as hip-hop goes. Desiigner is one, but we gotta do more.

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Bouncing like a pogo, they praying I never go solo Clipse – We Got It for Cheap (Intro)

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7 years

That was just something fly to say—it wasn’t even a thought. I was never supposed to be a solo artist, ever. Never, not in a trillion years. It wasn’t supposed to work like this. When I came into the game it was just supposed to be the Clipse and The Neptunes forever. When I came into the game, I said this is going to be Gang Starr, this is gonna be Guru and Premier. That was what it was supposed to be forever, but just the duo version. Forever!

I was just being super fly with this lyric. At that point I was just competing with everybody, whether you were a solo artist or a group.

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Thanks to the lawyers
I marbled the foyer
I tore the floor up
Yeah, that’s for the Koi fish
We been dining on oysters Pusha T (Ft. JAY-Z) – Drug Dealers Anonymous

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8 years

This is my favorite bar in Hov’s joint, when he tells me, he marbled the lobby and then tore the floor up and that’s for the Koi fish.

I don’t know what’s better, the fact that it’s a lifestyle bar or the fact he does not care enough to know that everybody is not going to get that.

Everybody ain’t been to Crustaceans and seen koi fish swimming under their feet as they walk into the restaurant. But, you’ll figure it out one day. And you’ll go, “Ahh.”

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14,833

8 years

Everyone will be too hype if Jay was verified but great tate Push

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201

8 years

Also noticed the koi fish on Tina lawsons Instagram and you can hear blue feed them in the background of the video. Tina says “have you ever seen fish this big?”

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1,240

8 years

Hov is eating off the work.
Hov is dining off of a pearl, an oyster – his lucrative endeavors in the street.
Make life your oyster.

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Sjaman v'Drøm

8 years

Considering the song title, and the song’s content in regards to criminology, this line is possibly a double entendre. Pusha’s annotation is one meaning, but if one were to interpret koi fish as a way to say fish scale, then the Feds might have a little trouble finding it under the marble foyer.

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real hiphop hed

8 years

trash

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136

8 years

Collaborate?

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100

7 years

Never heard of Crustacean, so I decided to go since I’d be in LA. The Koi fish in the floor is beautiful.

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aimèe

7 years

you’re lying

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102

2 years

THIS WAS ALWAYS MY MOST FAVORITE LINE OF THE WHOLE SONG TOO!! Ha, if you look at the Youtube video where you can actually comment on the song, you’ll see a post from me that says, “LOL … ON GOD HOV built this whole bar around rhyming ‘Koi Fish’ and making it gangster, and he did it …”

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1 year

All true but my diabolical drug rap mind think he talking about his real crib foyer where he buried a few mil , the yeah is sarcastic but what do I know. and he is talking about josiah royce loyalty test

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3 months

“Foyer” here is also a homophone for “FOIA” in legal jargon (Freedom of Information Act)

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Let he without sin cast the first stone
So I built that all glass quad level first home
Shatter all of your misconceptions
Hold all of them missing weapons Pusha T (Ft. JAY-Z) – Drug Dealers Anonymous

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8 years

I move in August. I move to Maryland in August. My house ain’t built for another 75 days. It will be done in 75 days. The house has glass everywhere. I’m not joking.

This is my life. Real shit.

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5,672

8 years

We dont believe you, you need more people

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8 years

HOLY SHIT IF THIS IS TRUE. Pusha got so many bars in this 🔥

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102

2 years

Pusha’s compound is certainly beautiful – and it’s SAFE & SOUND folks … dude got the all glass look, ain’t NOBODY getting near this place without EVERYBODY knowing … where could you live with such impeccable trust in your surroundings … only Push knows & throw your stones all you want, throw you sins at him too – he sees EVERYTHING.

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Paid in full like ’86, Gs on my body
The new Gucci has less monograms, God’s got him Pusha T (Ft. JAY-Z) – Drug Dealers Anonymous

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Artist

8 years

First of all, all of these brands come in cycles. So Gucci was already what it was. A household staple of, a fashion line that people know, love and respect, period.

But in previous years, it hasn’t been as popular as other things that you’ve heard about, other designs, other brands like Givenchy and so on.

Gucci has made this amazing resurgent with their new designer by the name of Alessandro Michele. And he’s put a whole new spin on it. It’s less of the double G monogram, which people know as the staple for Gucci.

There’s the bumblebee collection. There’s snakes. There’s thunderbolts. There’s a whole bunch of different things associated with the look of the collection.

That’s just me trying to tell people, hip people onto some shit.

That’s part of what we do in the hip-hop. It’s new style, it’s new music, it’s new fashion, it’s new culture, it’s everything.

That’s why Genius is what it is. It is about being able to really articulate and hip muthafuckas to decoding.

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8 years

That’s why Genius is what it is. It is about being able to really articulate and hip muthafuckas to decoding.

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CHEF

8 years

Saw the line “Paid in full like'86,G’s on my body”
as he meant his pockets so heavy it’s like a gravity of 90G gravity pulling him down

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161

7 years

Pusha T is correct here but like other bars in this songs I felt like this was another double entendre. You see I was thinking that he was referring to both Gucci the clothing line and rapper. You see Gucci Mane is not the same person he was once before just like the clothing line. Both changed for the better. Unlike other artist, Gucci decided to better himself and created a new improve Gucci. Not controlled and trapped into designer culture that’s admire these days. He’s a free man and God’s got him.

Also King Push played with the double G Gucci is known for with the God’s got him line.

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140

6 years

Lol y’all digging deep. 86ing something is when the patron is at a restaurant and isn’t satisfied with the meal so the server asks the proprietor to “86” it meaning it’s free for them or “paid in full” y’all gotta watch Kitchen Nightmares w Gordon Ramsay

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1,550

5 years

Having less monogram is also a great way to stay low key away from negative attention but still extremely fashionable.

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I put my boos in those cruise collections
Life’s a bitch
A to Z on her shoe collection, take your pick Pusha T (Ft. JAY-Z) – Drug Dealers Anonymous

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8 years

The hip-hop parallels. Trying to show you a little history man. Just being a fan; a total fan of AZ.

“Life’s a Bitch” was a stellar verse with him and Nas and just a throwback ode. Also in comparison to I put my girl in the cruise collections, A to Z.

A to Z on her shoe collection, she got whatever, take your pick, basically.

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1,063

8 years

He wasn't really drunk he just had a frew brews
― Kanye West (Ft. Big Sean & Jay Z) – Clique

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8 years

Azie Faison, also known by his stage name A.Z., is a former rapper and drug dealer. He earned more than $100,000 a week selling cocaine in Harlem, New York during the peak of America’s “War on Drugs” between 1983-1990.

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294

8 years

Didn’t need the genius on this one. Killer.

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2 years

this isn’t missing anything – it’s about the most PERFECT bar I’ve EVER heard.

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Garages, the phantom, ghouls, ghosts and goblins
Blonde mohawk the collection I’m Dennis Rodman Pusha T (Ft. JAY-Z) – Drug Dealers Anonymous

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Artist

8 years

I’m talking about the interior of the cars when I say “blonde mohawk the collection.”

That’s something that we’ve always done man. In all honesty, I may have gotten that from being a Jadakiss fan. He was always great at personifying inanimate objects or personifying a car.

Really giving it a type of character or instead of just saying, “You got a blue whip with tan interior,” you give it some type of character.

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1,240

8 years

@PushaT forgot to add that he linked all this to the previous word ominous. Ominous is almost like a sign of something bad or dark to come. So the bad in a sense is actually something good, the nicknames to these various cars in his garages that are similar to names of monsters, ghost or omens: Phantom, ghouls, ghosts, and goblins.
It’s a play on the connotations of ominous.

And pusha doesn’t only talk about serving and the fly lifestyle, but he also talks about the downfalls. What’s ominous. And a dealer is showing signs of being on his downfall once he is at the top. The expensive cars with nicknames and grills that look like monsters, are also signs that there is darkness to come (jealousy, getting caught, finding their downfall). The cars are prophetic, they are ominous.

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100

8 years

Push

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Anthony M

8 years

Curren$y is dope at this as well.

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james a

7 years

Push,thank you.

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David C

6 years

Pusha is also possibly referencing Jay-Z’s line on Kanye’s track ‘Monster’ where Hov says “Goblin, ghoul, a zombie with no conscience”.

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880

2 years

@PushaT You know you’re also talking about Ghouls ‘N Ghosts & Ghosts 'N Goblins.

Ghouls ‘N Ghosts:

Ghosts ‘N Goblins:

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Drug dealers anonymous
How many Madonnas can that Mazda fit?
My brick talk is more than obvious, it’s ominous Pusha T (Ft. JAY-Z) – Drug Dealers Anonymous

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8 years

“How many Madonnas can that Mazda fit?” is just a play off of the drug culture and just trying to show people that you got to be creative.

Madonnas is code word for bricks, white bricks, cocaine. How many Madonnas can that Mazda fit? How many can you fit in that type of car? You’ve never heard me rap about a Mazda in other capacity.

It’s just practical. It’s just the authentic, practical nature of that thought process and the person who’s actually in the car driving.

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41,688

8 years

These da type of Lyrics that’ll have ya “H👀ked On Lines”.

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176

7 years

Top 25…. maybe

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2 years

LOL PUSHA T can’t even get started on this one … goodness – just google the “Madonna” motif and start from there … LEVELS folks, LEVELS.

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4,299

1 year

thought of the line implying the fact that he wonders “how many women can i bag with this car?”.

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Chains on my niggas like slave runners Pusha T (Ft. JAY-Z) – Drug Dealers Anonymous

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Artist

8 years

I’m just trying to paint a picture of how I plan to celebrate my summer with my niggas and this is what you’re going to see.

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7 years

Could there also be some word-play here, Push? “slave runners” i.e. drugs turn people into slaves and runners is a slang term for drug dealers who “rn” drugs obvs. Drugs make slaves outta users + slang for drug pushers = drug runners

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100

3 years

slaves who tried to escape were placed on chains. Pusha made an analogy, all his brothers use chains (gold) as fleeing slaves.

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