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Cam'ron has written rhymes for several rappers. Although they’re borrowing his style, Cam is cool with it because he’s getting paid.

According to Cam, one such instance was Lil' Cease’s verse on Lil Kim’s “Crush on You.” Cease allegedly orchestrated an attack on Cam'ron and Jim Jones in Rucker Park (and then laughed about it in a video), so it would make sense for Cam to view Cease as an asshole.

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Pitchfork is a music site that host the annual “Pitchfork Music Festival” they have written a review for every musical body of work Wale has put out and their not always his biggest fan.

Play on words between FORK and PLATE.
He uses a metaphor to liken Pitchfork (the Indie Music Kingmaker Blog) to an actual utensil used for eating. Essentially, Pitchfork doesn’t want Wale on their plate. He doesn’t suit their musical palette. They rated his debut album, Attention Deficit, a 6.6.

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This is probably a response to his twitter beef with Rosa Acosta . After one of Wale’s performances Rosa tweeted that he “failed” and Wale responded by saying she has no real followers. In response to this Acosta said that he sounded “sensitive.” Thus, because of Wale’s penchant for responding to twitter hate he has become known as somewhat defensive.

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Guru has already played the game (and has presumably earned his stripes) and now stands as the banner for those new to the game to look up to.

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As mentioned in the previous line, Travie doesn’t want 5 mic’s next to his name in The Source. Instead, he wants to be rated with 5 Vic’s (Vicodins, which is a mixture of Hydrocodone and Acetaminophen).

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Analogizing spinning at his own wheels (i.e. being bored) with spinning Sufis

The term Spinning Sufis also relates to the aforementioned poet and mystic Rumi, who started the tradition of “spinning Sufis”. The Spinning is called Sama' which is a type of Dhikr (meditation on god) in which one meditates on God by focusing on music.

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Polo is short for Polow Da Don, who is a famous Hip-hop/R&B producer.

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