Dwayne Haskins is the former starting QB for the Washington Football Team. He was benched near the beginning of the 2020-2021 season for not playing well. Despite Haskins' poor performance, Wale wishes him success because playing in the NFL is tough on the mind and body.

Chase Young is a talented D-lineman on Wale’s hometown team, the Washington Football team.

Ye has always been against modern slavery. One of his most notable songs about this topic is “New Slaves.” Ye believes that his music and vision will save people from their invisible chains. In “Saint Pablo” he even says, “I’ve been wakin' the spirits of millions more to come.”

During his 2020 presidential run, he talked about his vision, how people should help each other to end things like war, poverty, and hunger. His slogan was “2020 VISION.”

“I could have freed a thousand more [slaves] if only they knew they were slaves,” has been incorrectly attributed to Harriet Tubman. There’s no evidence that she ever said it.

Nipsey Hussle was shot and killed outside of his own clothing store, The Marathon Clothing, by another member of the Rollin 60s Neighborhood Crips. Nipsey and the individual had a personal dispute before his killer returned and shot him multiple times.

Nipsey, whose first name is Ermias, is the namesake of the song.

The chorus of the song interpolates lines from the first and second verse of Groove Theory’s 1995 song “Tell Me.”

The opening lines of this verse pay homage to LL Cool J’s opening lines in his 1990 song “Around the Way Girl:”

I want a girl with extensions in her hair
Bamboo earrings, at least two pair
A Fendi bag and a bad attitude

Pooh’s stated on Twitter that his opening line pays homage to Prodigy’s opening line in “Can’t complain:"

Open my wings to a new day, spread my lungs

“I heard you paint houses,” is mafia code for “I heard you kill people.” It was reportedly said by Jimmy Hoffa, former president of the Teamsters union, to Frank “The Irishman” Sheeran. Frank was a hitman for the Bufalino crime family, an organization with whom Jimmy conducted organized crime.

The phrase can be heard in the 2019 film The Irishman which chronicles Frank’s time working for the mob.

Card embossers are used by scammers to create fake credit cards. The machine punches indentations of the letters and numbers needed to make a card look authentic.

In the videogame series Street Fighter, Sagat’s stage, Ayutthaya Ruins, features a statue of a reclining buddha. It’s based on the Wat Lokayasutharam in Bangkok, Thailand.