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Aside from the artists featured on this song, Dame is bigging up Freeway, Roc head honcho Jay-Z and Jay’s little homie, Memphis Bleek, a.k.a. history’s greatest weed carrier
Yo, this is Dame Dash, the CEO Dame Dash (Ft. Beanie Sigel, Cam'ron, Kanye West, Twista & Young Chris) – Champions
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Damon “Dame” Dash was one of the three founders of Roc-a-fella Records, along with Jay-Z and Kareem Burke. While not a performer himself, he is the most brash and aggressive personality amongst the three partners, and frequently showed up in videos with bottles of bubbly and big cigars in tow:
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Humpty Hump is the main alter-ego of D.U. leader Gregory Jacobs a.k.a. Shock G; other personas include MC Blowfish, ButtaFly, and Peanut Hakeem
The Humpty persona was the most commonly used of the batch, and even had its own biography:
A fictional biography was constructed for Humpty, the story being that Edward Ellington Humphrey III, former lead singer of “Smooth Eddie and the Humpers,” had become a rapper after burning his nose in a kitchen accident with a deep-fryer
Louis Vuitton loafers, hat dripping Dame Dash (Ft. Beanie Sigel, Cam'ron, Kanye West, Twista & Young Chris) – Champions
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Saks Fifth Avenue is a very expensive and exclusive NYC department store. It may well be where Cam purchased his Louis Vuitton loafers, expensive designer shoes. His hat is “dripping” with jewels, perhaps even his favorite canary diamonds. One of Cam’s diamond-encrusted chains, below:
50 cal. A.C.P., Bazooka Joe Dame Dash (Ft. Beanie Sigel, Cam'ron, Kanye West, Twista & Young Chris) – Champions
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Cam’s companions had some powerful weaponry! The .45 ACP is a cartridge for use in a semi-automatic pistol. A .50 caliber model would be slightly bigger – see below:
Spend a lot of time in Hampt-i-ons Dame Dash (Ft. Beanie Sigel, Cam'ron, Kanye West, Twista & Young Chris) – Champions
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Yeezy here intentionally mispronounces the name of the favorite getaway spot of NYC’s idle rich, the Hamptons, in order to rhyme with the name of the track (and the “can’t be on” line that follows)
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Interstate 95, the main US East Coast highway, is a meme route for East Coast drug dealers to take when delivering their wares down South – which many rappers have bragged about doing, often, like Cam, armed with MAC-10 submachine pistols
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Cam here shows love to the members of State Property, the Roc’s Philly contingent headed by Beanie Sigel. The collective consisted of Beanie (who is the “Mack Mittens” referenced here), Oschino and Sparks (also referenced), Freeway (ditto), Peedi Crakk, and the Young Gunz (Young Chris, featured on this song, and Neef Buck)
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Oddly, Dame here compares his team to apparel company Phillips-Van Heusen, the world’s largest shirt company, which owns brands such as Tommy Hilfiger, Calvin Klein, and more
The company’s namesake brand, Van Heusen, is best known for upscale men’s wear – dress shirts and the like
“We are Roc music.” Dame says we are roc music