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Won’t ever stop working until he’s the king of rap. He’s just not quite there yet.

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Tool is slang for a gun.

Screw (aka chopped and screwed) is a technique of remixing songs, usually to a much slower beat, and deepened vocals developed in Houston in the early 90’s by DJ Screw.

Bob Villa is a carpenter on a show called This Old House where he remodeled old, run-down houses.

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Alluding to the last line, making money is “easy as cake”.

The Friday the 13th series) is a series of horror/slaser movies where the antagonist named Jason usually slaughters an unsuspecting group of teenagers or camp counselors near Crystal Lake. He chases his victims around for roughly an hour and a half.

When chasing paper, or getting money, he terrorizes everything that stands in his way.

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Wordplay:

Dough is slang for money, but is also the combination of water, flour, eggs, etc that is used to bake bread and some pastries. In this case he is going to bake his money (or dough) into more money.

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A home-run in baseball is when the hitter at bat hits the ball “out of the park” or over the fence within the in play line coming off of first and third base. It results as a point for the at bat. A base hit is when the hitter hits the ball in play without having a fielder catch the ball before it hits the ground resulting in the hitter reaching first base before the ball does.

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To lend someone your ear is to listen to them for a minute.

In the Mike Tyson and Evander Holyfield fight billed as Holyfield – Tyson II, Mike Tyson bit off a chunk of Holyfield’s ear during a clinch in the Third Round.

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Reminiscing on the time before he ever had a grammy, and knew he was the next thing to blow up but was still selling his own mixtapes outside a Texaco gas station.

Came a long way.

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When you’re a nomad and constantly move around (which most rappers with good work ethic are due to constant touring, etc) it might upset the women that you keep in your life.

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First and coach are “classes” or seating areas in commercial airplanes. They vary in price ranges and of course, comfort and luxury. First class is the most expensive, and most luxurious seating area, and often includes things like leather seats, free alcohol, and sometimes even phones.

Coach is the seating for a more middle class. It contains comfortable, but standard seating.

But no matter how much money you make, and where you can afford to sit on a plane, Cham thinks that some people are just unclassy folk.

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This a great metaphor to paint the picture of pain because a quarry is a big gaping hole in the earth.

Quarry sounds a lot like query, which is basically what 3 Stacks has been doing this whole verse. He’s questioning if he made the best choice by walking out on his family to go live his life the best way he sees fit. He’s uncertain if the choices that he made were really the best choice for himself. He’s wondering how his life would have been different had he stayed with his kids.

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