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Keef usually says he is Ballin' like Jordan or Kobe, implying he is the best doing it. Here he says that he is Ballin' like Spalding, the company that makes Basketballs.

This is Keef’s way of saying that he exemplifies Ballin' in the realest way. He doesn’t ball like anyone else, he is the definition of Ballin'.

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A play on Julius Caesar’s famous quote “Veni, Vedi, Vici” translated “I came, I saw, I conquered”. Chief is the Julius Caesar of his generation in terms of being a baller. He has so much money now that, much like Julius Caesar, everywhere he goes he is able to conquer it (buy it).

This is a very clever homage to one of the greatest rulers in world history cleverly disguised as a description of a shopping trip (not unlike the conquest of a country or a collection of tribute, things Caesar did quite frequently). Much like Caesar, Chief Keef is often known to sing his own praises upon great accomplishments and the way that Caesar recorded them in war journals, Keef records his accomplishments in his songs and on social media websites.

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Montana is saying that you have a bad batch of crack because you mixed too much baking soda into it.

This is also a nod to the French Montana and Wale’s song “Back 2 Ballin'” where the hook says “You niggas serving up a bad batch, too much bakin' on it.”

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Chief Keef uses similar lines in a lot of his songs to reference back to each other. This line is reminiscent to the last line in the first verse of Hallelujah And if your boyfriend wanna be like me tell him get on his grind. The line is Chief Keef’s way of saying that many guys want to bite his style and since he is talking to their girlfriends (because bitches Love Sosa and he can fuck any woman.)

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This line is a reference to the line in Soulja Boys original song Zan Wit That Lean I keep that hammer on me I ain’t worried about a thing, except Cheif Keef modified the line to suit his lyrical style more. In most of Chief Keef’s songs he makes remarks saying that he is unafraid of shooting people if it comes down to that.
In the classic tradition of doing song covers, Chief Keef took the original and modified it enough to fit him while still having it pay homage.

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Finally Rich; the Chief Keef mantra since he got signed to Interscope. Most of Keef’s lines refer to his recent “rags to riches” lifestyle including this line in which Keef is saying that he has money now which means that he is never hungry. This leaves the listener to imply that Keef used to be hungry at times because of his lack of money.

As a side note, there were multiple album cover concepts created for Finally Rich, this was one of them.

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Chief Keef has got so much money that he is planning on going to the mall and buying everything in it. This line is similar to the Jay-Z line in the Kanye West song So Appalled in which Jay-Z says I’m so appalled I might buy the mall, just to show niggas how much more I have in store.

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Women who are often seen as unclassy and shady, become shining and beautiful in Wale’s eyes. He has the ability to see the shining star inside of any woman, regardless of what she looks like or how she acts.

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Because the people are so unorganized Rockwell is saying that someone needs to step up and take charge.

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This song is a way for Chief Keef to confront his insecurities about growing up and being accepted as who he is.

  1. First off, Chief Keef named the song Love Sosa, a subliminal cry for attention. Keef is asking for people to Love Sosa because he feels unloved in the rap game after the remix of I Don’t Like came out. Everyone attacked Keef’s rhyming ability saying he shouldn’t have even been featured on the remix. This prompted Keef, in a moment of insecurity and hostility, to claim that Kanye was not responsible for his success. He merely wanted people to know that the song was made famous off his talent.

  2. Keef mentions that others know he is grown up in the line “ya’ll know I’m a grown boy”. He is saying that even though he is only 17 years old, he has experienced enough in his life that he feels as though he has achieved man hood and he wants others to recognize this. People often talked about how he was too young to be doing what he is doing and talking about what he’s talking about. Keef wanted people to realize these claims just aren’t true.

  3. When Keef mentions that people are “broke boys”, he is saying that they are not earning as much as he is, implying they are not as productive in their adult life as he already is. The reason he says it twice in the hook is because of his insecurity, he couldn’t contain the thought to just one line and had to throw extra emphasis on it.

At the end of the day, Keef just wants people to accept Keef for who he is. He is an adult, he is proud of who he has become and wants people to treat him like a person, and not just a figure on display.

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