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The Crips and Bloods are rival gangs from Compton L.A. Her man is a member of the Crips gang, and he will need a blood donor after the Bloods attack him.

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“Box Chevy” is a song by Rick Ross in which refers to a Chevy Caprice as a Box Chevy. The Chevy is blood red like a used tampon, a reference to the previous line.

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187 and 211 are the California police codes, used over police radios, for murder and robbery respectively. 187 has been frequently rapped about in West Coast hip-hop, See Dr Dre’s “Deep Cover”

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Syrup, or purple drank, is usually mixed with other drinks, he mixes it with fanta.

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“Hocus Pocus” is slang for weed. The term is typically used in the west coast. He is smoking the finest weed with his Californian girl. ACCEPTED COMMENT: “Hocus Pocus” is also a term used by many magicians so it connects to the previous line as well.

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He changed his sprite into Purple Drank with ice. Purple drank is a slang term for a recreational drug popular in the hip hop community. It is made by mixing codeine (cough syrup) with soda.

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Women, cars, clothes, bling – these are the things that people living in the ghetto worship.

This is also a reference to a line from one of Nas' earlier songs, “You’re Da Man”, which featured on his album Stillmatic:

Now wait a sec, give me time to explain, women and fast cars
And diamond rings can poison a rap star

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