Nas is quick to dissociate himself from her low opinion of Jimmy, especially considering that she’s been hanging out with members of a rival gang, viz. his enemies

Calling her a snake is a rich allusion, but we never learn enough to determine whether shorty led to Jimmy’s downfall—like the snake in the book of Genesis—or whether Nas is just calling her cold and callous

When Nas urged the mother of Jimmy’s son to go see Jimmy in prison, she claimed she wanted nothing to do with him: his arrest was his own fault because he never listened to her advice

Nas’s friend (who we’ll call “Jimmy” here, though he is unnamed in the song) had a son who was born while he was in prison. Unfortunately, the child’s mother has moved on, and doesn’t worry about him anymore

Puff takes this threat seriously and tries convince the woman to not resort to such drastic measures

In the biblical sense, i.e. doin' it

“Piff” is high-grade purple haze cannabis

Faith Evans was married to the Notorious B.I.G. until the time of his murder. The marriage was by all accounts a turbulent one, but posterity says it was mostly Biggie cheating on Faith, not the other way around

Baseball metaphor: Fabolous is both nurturer and home-plate umpire

No… homo?

Ooh: Fab jumps from mention (malo is Spanish for “bad”) to use (the situation whereby it is no longer all good is a sad one)