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This hook is a mixed sample from YB’s “Lambo”. This track was also notably sampled by G.O.O.D music for the top ten hit “Mercy”

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Kingpen slim and re-up gang are among many other artists in the tradition of crack rap.The central refrain of this song (hook) is repeated several times to emphasize the drug culture (fast money, women, and danger) that this track will explore. Kingpen Slim is glorifying the process of preparing crack cocaine for addicts. The line may also be referring to the music itself as a drug and his rapping skills as his specialty. See here and here.

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His female friend should gyrate and move her body as if she is playing the maracas.

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Rappers referring to themselves as Gods is directly attributable to the influence of the Nation of Gods and Earths, an NOI offshoot that has had an outsized influence on hip-hop. See here for a summary

The NGE believes that each black man is literally his own God, and address each other as such (women are “Earths”). This practice became very common as influential rappers such as Rakim, Big Daddy Kane, and others talked publicly about the tenants of the Nation

Coincident that he rocked a Nation of Gods and Earths chain in his latest interview? Probably not.

http://youtu.be/mo6GzsBi9wU?t=14m53s

Hurry up with those damn croissants, huh?

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Future can now write large checks due to the wealth he has accrued

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Cee-Lo was one of the original members of the rap group Goodie Mob before he began working on other projects.

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The Bad Boy Pistons were a Basketball team in the 80s/early 90s consisting of Isiah Thomas, Dennis Rodman, and Bill Laimbeer. They were known for playing a particularly physical (and dirty) style of defense.

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YB is using a sports reference. Play by play calling is when a commentator speaks on events that are happening live in a sport like basketball or football. So when YB is in his car people are jocking him.

Being in the zone has a double meaning. On the one hand he is saying he’s drinking/partying and having fun but he is also referencing sports where being in the zone means being on top of your game.

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This is a reference to rapper Kwame who made “The Rhythm”

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=56sw8S3ahQM

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Big Pooh is hungry to rhyme so he calls the rest of LB up to come do a song.

This could also be a Possible allusion to Outkast’s Prototype when he says “I can’t afford to not record”.

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