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Game is saying Jay-Z is too soft and too mainstream

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Jay-Z says he got the nickname Jigga because he used to rap really fast

Jigga da Jay-Z

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  • Popping tags means buying new clothes. When the price tags are removed, they make a popping or snapping sound.
  • Game is saying Jay-Z is a softy for popping tags, while Game is keeping it gangsta, poppin' that .45

In Poppin' Tags, Hov says:

That’s right, and I’m droppin' cash
Leave the mall with garbage bags

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Sticky is questioning Eminem’s above line considering the fact that Eminem actually grew up in a trailer park. If Sticky was white that would be the ill shit for him opposed to being a white rich kid from the burbs. Plus its the ill shit because the trailer park raised a dope rapper “Eminem”

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On 50’s first album, Power of the Dollar, there was a song called “Ghetto Qu'ran” on which 50 was accused of leaking information regarding old-time Queens drug dealers.

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When you have a lot of money you can live the American Dream.

Definition of the American Dream by James Truslow Adams in 1931, “life should be better and richer and fuller for everyone, with opportunity for each according to ability or achievement” regardless of social class or circumstances of birth.

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These are all ghetto nick-names for money.

Raekwon of the Wu-Tang Clan is featured on the hook and Sticky used cream which was introduced by the Wu-Tang Clan through their single “C.R.E.A.M.” which stands for cash rules everything around me. The slang term cream was born after that.

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Sticky is just reminding you that he’s rapping from the perspective of money

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Self explanatory; Rich people (investors/bankers etc) make money work for them by investing in things that earn more. While poor people have to work hard to earn it

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Banks, people, police put money in saves for safety. And criminal bury money to hide evidence when they being raided and searched, or to keep it hid until its safe to use it.

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