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

It’s also a solid pun on Wonderama and wonder rhymer

References to fruit fights are actually quite common in hip hop. For example, see LL Cool J:

Shootin the gift, but you just don’t shoot it right
You couldn’t bust a grape in a fruit fight

Jay-Z (who wholesale-imports other people’s swag as zealously as Shiny Suit Era-era Puff Daddy) makes a pretty similar claim in “99 Problems”:

You know the type, loud as a motorbike
But wouldn’t bust a grape in a fruit fight

Yo-Yo makes use of fruit more specifically with grape in “They Shit Don’t Stink”:

Wouldn’t bust a grape with a sledgehammer

While The Beatnuts change “fruit” to “food” in “No Escapin' This (Alternate Vocal Version)”:

You couldn’t bust a grape in a food fight

2 Chainz also returns to this phrase in his recent guest verse on Eminem’s “Chloraseptic (Remix)”:

In a fruit fight, I aim at your Adam’s apple
Pull up in the candy car, eatin' a candy bar

Freddie’s playing fast and loose here: just as a quarter isn’t the same as five nickels (even if they have the same cash value), an icicle won’t stay pointy unless it’s kept frozen.

Of course, nickels and quarters aren’t just coins: they’re also drug quantities. If we’re talking about cocaine, often compared to snow, the icicle image—borrowed from Method Man in “Got My Mind Made Up”—has additional relevance. And if Freddie is talking about his own ruthlessness, we might believe he’ll stay cold enough inside to keep the icicle nice and permafrost-sharp.

“Extradite” hits a lot of notes about impermanence and uncertainty, and these two similes—both truer in spirit than in cold, hard reality—sets the tone early.

This hook’s flow is similar to Chedda Da Connect’s “Flicka Da Wrist”, also a dactylic phrase (one stressed syllable followed by two unstressed syllables) repeated several times.

The hook refers to wrapping and packaging cocaine, a drug Freddie is very familiar with.

For what it’s worth, this listener heard “he looked at my dick and he said ‘I’m your baby,’” which is definitely a plausible Young Thug lyric.

A reference to Calhoun Tubbs, a blues musician played by David Alan Grier on In Living Color, possibly via the same phrase as used in Wu-Tang Clan’s “Method Man”

Ali plays lightly with prepositions, changing “wrote a song about it” in Tubbs’s catchphrase to “wrote a song on it,” namely the eviction notice