all the people putting stories on insta of their relatives / friends / peers , are just getting scammed dawg, many of ‘em don’t know the full lyrics of what 50’s trying to speak , lmaoooooo 😂😂🤣🤣

Llyod banks wrote the hook..

The repeated insistence that it is Shawty’s birthday, when it is revealed only a few lines later that it is not, could be seen almost like a form of hypnosis: Through repeated affirmations, 50 creates an atmosphere of partying excess and abandon usually reserved for one special night of the year…now delivered every night.

The “go, go, go…” could also be from DJ Jimi’s 1992 hit “Where They At” where he uses a similar cadence to repeat the word “go” over the phrase “do it, baby, stick it, baby”.

In the intro of the video, where 50 is seen as being created/tested by Dr Dre and Eminem – mimicking themselves as scientists – it seems to be a flashback to when Dr. Dre performs the same maneuver on D.O.C. in his music video “The Formula”.

even before the arrival of the Europeans, Hindus practiced something called the “Caste System” (which still exists) where the superiority of a person depends on his/her skin tone i.e. fair skinned people belonged to the higher caste and the superiority decrease with the skin tone. Caste based segregation started with the skin tone but later got passed on as a dynastic advantage/disadvantage (depending on the caste one belongs to). Even today Bollywood and media portray fair skinned people to be more successful.

I agree with both explanations, but also some families especially in the hoods of Philadelphia (where I am from) will only allow their children outside to play from one stop sign to another being that there is usually stop signs on every corner.

Gang violence is often something that sees its borders being set by the end of the block or the “stop sign.” His reference of being raised by the stop sign could also mean his introduction into gang life as a young kid.

^others have tried man lol…

This can also say that in his upbringing, people always told him to stop at what he is doing cause those people don’t think he can succeed. It may also mean that he was raised by people who told him to stop at everything he does, raised in bars.

Double entendre, on the block corner, and being given the “no-go” by society as a young, black male.

As well as the above explanation, this could also represent how whilst growing up society had no faith in Meek. Meek would have faced a lot of negativity for pursuing his dream of rapping. Many people would of told him it was impossible and that he should just give up. Throughout his life, Meek would of had to persevere on the street corner amongst the crime and death in order to reach his goals. Regardless of these obstacles that would cause most people to stop, the ambition in Meek’s veins kept him going.