Guns salute life rapidly, that's the ritual Raekwon (Ft. Ghostface Killah & Nas) – Verbal Intercourse
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Jay-Z thinks that karma, which had him fearing life, will send him a daughter to get back at him. Maybe because Jigga has committed some past wrongs against women?
Nas expresses this same sentiment, on his song, “Daughters.”
They say the coolest playas and foulest heart breakers in the world,
God gets us back, he makes us have precious little girls.
In other news, Jay-Z and Beyoncé had a daughter named Blue Ivy Carter on January 7th, 2012. She stunts on hoes just like her dad does.
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Roc Marci uses some baseball terms (“pitch” and “base”) for a bit wordplay.
He “pitches” (sells) cocaine (“base”). Bases are run in baseball to score points like cocaine is sold to make money.
This line is reminiscent of these infamous Jay-Z lines:
I father, I Brooklyn Dodger them
I jack, I rob, I sin;
Aw, man, I’m Jackie Robinson
‘Cept when I run base, I dodge the pen
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I drop bombs like a scientist DProsper (Ft. Jay Electronica) – ATOM ANTHEM
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Given that Pusha T, the King of the Coke Flow, says this, “birds eye view” means that Pusha is able to channel his musical vision because of all the “birds” (bricks of cocaine) he sold. It not only provided him with income but also provides the bulk of his rap content in some form.
And a traditional birds eye view allows people to see things they wouldn’t normally see. Pusha might be referring to his worlds travels by plane, which allows him alternate views of the Earth.
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Nielson SoundScan is a service that tracks music sales.
Pusha doesn’t need SoundScan to get rich. He goes diamond on his blocka by selling (“laying”) bricks of cocaine.
Also, albums with poor sales are called bricks (similar to the usage of “brick” in basketball). So a “bricklayer” is someone who can’t make a successful album for their life.
‘Cuz you know what they say about manual labor…
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Another, more far-fetched interpretation of this line is that Pusha does not track his cocaine sales (with SoundScan) as that would be more potential evidence for a court case against him were the records found.
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Pusha still gets his women from his drug connect’s (plug’s) stable.
With “fishin'”, he’s probably playing on fishscale cocaine, one of the purest, most potent forms of cocaine.
Houston, Texas has an up-scaled mall named The Galleria where he buys his women purses.
By declaring himself “Mr. Trick Bag”, Pusha T is probably referring to his constant gifts to his women (like purses) and he’s that also got a bag of tricks where “tricks” means women.
He mentions the all star game taking in houstoun, the very organization that the lakers traded Dereck Fisher to. However, Fisher never showed up