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Nas' first big payday, as mentioned above, occurred when he was 17. At the time of this album’s release, the rapper is 38, so his math here checks out.

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The FZ crew goes in over the beat from Kreayshawn’s novelty hit

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A series of Lil Wayne references here. As we all know, Lil Wayne’s favorite movie was The Gremlins, and he also had a song called “Pussy Money Weed”

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Erick puns on the word “arrest” here, and follows up with a reference to the story of the three bears

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The idea of raping a beat was taking to its logical, if horrifying, conclusion by Pharoahe Monch in his song called, surprisingly, “Rape”

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“Jumping the broom” is a custom at weddings found in many different cultures, including African-Americans, for whom it dates back to the 19th century

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A remix by the Zombies of the M.I.A. song of the same name

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This sort of pun on “dome” has been done a lot before—cf. these lines from Lil Wayne’s “Donks”:

I ain’t fucking with them bitches in that stadium
That’s no dome—bitch, go home

Chris is referring to Drake’s “Headlines” music video, where Drake raps inside a soccer pitch.

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OVO stands for October’s Very Own, Drake’s overarching name for his crew/blog/ventures/etc.

Here, Brown plays on the “Ov” part of OVO, suggesting that it should stand for a fatal “ov"erdose

Brown also suggests that, in controvention of Drake’s “You Only Live Once” motto, he himself has had more than one “life”, public opinion-wise, having come back to success after the outcry generated by his very public domestic abuse

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Minneapolis rapper Micheal “Eyedea” Larsen passed away in October, 2010. His body was tragically found by his own mother

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