Auburn Correctional Facility is yet another New York maximum security state pen (everyone’s invited!), this one the holder of the dubious honor of being the first site of execution by electric chair.

Another maximum security New York prison.

Elmira was a POW camp used by the Union during the Civil War to house captured Confederate soldiers.

The camp was notorious for the high death rates of prisoners.

Maximum Security pen in New Jersey, now known as the East Jersey State Prison. (Rahway’s a harder name!) Was actually a reformatory school of delinquent youth before it was made into a prison.

Greenhaven is a New York City maximum security penitentiary, and was home to New York’s death row (for the period of time when NY had the death penalty), as well as its electric chair, Old Sparky

On the hook, Q-Tip shouts out various prisons in the tradition of party MCs, furthering the concept.

Riker’s Island is a maximum security penitentiary where Lil Wayne did his bid in 2010 for weapons charges.

This line shows the concept of the song — imagining prison as a party that poor black people are invited to. This concept is set up in the hilarious album-opening skit “Station Identification”.

Pic almost related — party in a Chinese prison:

Most drug dealers who get arrested don’t even get their day in court, due to institutionalized racism.

And given the conditions of their own neighborhoods…they don’t even care! Jail is practically a step up.

Many churches use donor money to expand their buildings in order to seat more people, therefore bringing in more money, rather than using the money toward any socially responsible goal. These churches, (often pejoratively referred to as “mega-churches”) as well as the people who run them, are the main targets of this song.