Nat Turner was a Virginia slave who led an infamous rebellion in 1831 and killed at least 50 white people, which in turn led to the killing of at least 100 black people.

Harriet Tubman was an escaped Maryland slave who helped operate the Underground Railroad, which smuggled tens of thousands of slaves to safety without killing anyone (usually). She also personally escorted dozens of slaves to freedom.

Jay might be playing on the underground railroad when he says he “pave ways.” Sorta like making pedestrian roads. Railroad tracks and roads are both used to ease transportation.

And then in the late ‘90s No Limit rapper Big Ed used that phrase in the pretty forgettable track “Uh Oh”

Like Jesus, Jay hangs out with lepers and the unclean

By likening himself to Christ, Jay calls himself a savior, and can be found with people who are in need of healing and redemption. He could also be saying Christ was found in the midst of the lowest of the low — those who are beneath him — and similarly Jay is a rap savior surrounded by “lames” or weak rappers without comparable style or lyrical content.

Same as the opening lines of “Dead Presidents”, the single which was released in 1995 to hype Jay-Z’s album Reasonable Doubt. The song didn’t make it on the album, but “Dead Presidents II” did

Wonderama was a children’s TV show popular from the 1950s through the 1970s; Jay-Z was alluding to the quiz-show segment, in which audience members could win big jugs of peanut butter

And everyone knows Dre-jacking chances are particularly low between January and May

Ocean Surf? Regular Scent? Or perhaps Lady Speed Stick?

Dre was almost certainly worth less than the Northrop-Grumman B-2 Spirit, when went at a cool $737 milli in 1997 without even taking into account, you know, equipment maintenance and testing. He would have had to keep it real all the time to afford a stealth bomber

Also, missed opportunity: the video, which takes place in an airplane hangar, does not show a stealth bomber here, but rather a clip from Friday where Ice Cube and Chris Tucker ogle a woman jogging by

Alternate line: “I use Crest, so ain’t no cavity creeps in my grill” (what’s more important? Oral hygiene? Or making money?)