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A Twitter pun! Cole is both paying attention to what his lady is doing, and “following” her Twitter stream

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A nod to the Chris Brown song “I Can Transform Ya”, and the Transformers themselves

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Jay-Z had at this point recently signed a $150 million deal with Live Nation. The $20 million per movie figure for Will stated here is spot-on, incidentally

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A real shot here – Cons takes a dig at Pusha’s former manager Anthony “Geezy” Gonzalez, who was arrested for being part of a multi-million dollar cocaine rig.

He also asserts that Pusha must be skimming some cocaine off the top to think he can contend with Consequence, “snorting whatever Tony was importing.”

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Reference to the J Cole song “In The Morning”, which is inspired by the opening lines of Jigga’s “Can I Get A…”

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The hook of this song uses the melody of the opening phrase of the traditional English Christmas carol “God Rest Ye Merry Gentlemen”. More info on the song here

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Continuing in the song’s subliminal sweepstakes, it is at least possible that this line is a dig at a certain recently incarcerated rapper who has been known to take shots at the throne. Whereas Jay is always prepared in the event he catches a charge and has to flee, Weezy was caught red-handed.

https://twitter.com/S_C_/status/354364639192170500

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Jada takes Schooly’s ending couplet and turns it into an ode to his guns, a .38 caliber snubnosed revolver and a chopper – i.e. a machine gun. The short one and the long one, below:

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Jada still (rather implausibly) claims to be moving dope on many of his songs, despite a 17-year rap career

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Note that Jada’s verse keeps the almost exact same rhyme scheme (only the second pair of lines differs) as Schoolly’s, and the same backronym idea as well

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