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After a person wins a lawsuit, they’re usually awarded an annual payment or annuity. People usually accept a large lump sum payment from a third party company in order to access all of their money right away. The third party company then collects the annual payments over the life of the annuity and makes a small profit.

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Back when he was broke and dreamed of making it big

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People from his past and early fans don’t associate with him anymore, most likely because he’s successful and they accuse him of being a sellout. Kanye elaborated on this theme in “Put On”

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Rick Ross’s signature grunt, sampled here as a percussive element. Kanye was the first to sample an adlib, incorporating Jeezy’s sounds in “Can’t Tell Me Nothin'”

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Yeah he blows a lot of money at the mall, but he makes it right back through rapping and dealing drugs

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Cain and Abel are the two sons of Adam & Eve in the Bible. Cain kills his brother Abel. Juelz is dealing cocaine, though

For a much more intricate use of this “Cain+Abel/‘caine+able” pun, see Clipse’s “Grindin'”

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Triple entendre (seriously)

  1. He’s changing up his game on this girl by playing it low key while you’re trying too hard

  2. In baseball, a changeup is a slow pitch designed to fool hitters into swinging early thinking that it’s a fastball

  3. Also a reference to chopped & screwed music, a hip-hop sub-genre that originated in Kirko’s hometown of Houston with DJ Screw and uses slowed pitch and “chops” in the song to change the tempo up

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In a song about bodily fluids, Cam'ron delivers some deft rhymes and female Dipset artist Byrd Lady adds a serviceable verse

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Cam pipes your girl, and a reference to wrestler Rowdy Roddy Piper

Piper was a Canadian wrestler, so Cam is calling himself a tough showman.

Actually Cam, that’s not a very good comparison

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