This infamous line has been used in Clipse’s “Intro”, from their debut album Lord Willin'.

Terrence Thornton’s stage name stands for “push a ton (of that shit that makes your nose run).” Thus, it’s a shame that he moved all that weight.

Though Pusha still moves weight (CD’s), so he’s not violating anti-narcotics laws.

Also, see Pusha compare his music to coke from his song, “Raid” from his commercial solo debut Fear Of God II: Let Us Pray.

Kanye West also compared his music to crack in his “Crack Music”.

Esteban Calderone was a drug lord in Miami Vice, notable for having killed Tubbs’s brother Rafael in New York, which makes Tubbs work with the Metro-Dade Organized Crime Bureau to seek track down and seek revenge on Calderone.

Pusha was, apparently, negatively influenced by Calderone’s example, yet he only realized it after he matured some.

Even though he recognizes her gold-digging, her sex game is on lock, so K.R.I.T. lets her accompany him to a celebration.

Sounds like “Yeezy taught her”

Continuing this song’s stream of Outkast song references, this line is also a shoutout to Outkast’s first single, “Player’s Ball”.

Jay perseveres through all the bullshit.

By “step by step I heal through bass and treble cleft,” Jay’s music will heal wounds and resurrect minds.

The last line has Jay waging war through his songs (wax = CD’s/vinyl). He’s also punning on “wacks,” as in wack MC’s. They’re his target.

Nas has been spitting fresh rhymes since birth! After all, he snuffed Jesus at age 12.

Additionally, “beastin',” used to boast of his infantile mic prowess, might connect with the religious namedrops in the next line, which would also hint at The Beast, mentioned especially in The Book of Revelation.

In Manning Marable’s recent biography of Malcolm, Malcolm X: A Life of Reinvention, he gives evidence that Malcolm repeatedly chose a danger-fraught path to fight for social justice in America.

He made several trips to northern and western Africa, each time going back to America to fight racial injustice. All the while, he knew that Africa would be a place of safe refuge for him, protecting him from danger. He also knew that his violent death would happen eventually if he returned to America.

So, in that sense, Malcolm was, indeed, a dead man; he knew how and where he would die.

Ross plays chess, generally considered a more complex, more strategic game than checkers, but his enemies aren’t thinking 7 moves ahead, unlike Ross.

Ross seems to be revising a line he had on an earlier song where he confused chess with checkers.