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Cam and his crew used to call “da da do” when the police would cruise their block. Now? They make the same call when they’re partying in nightclubs. The quartet of lines is classic rags-to-riches stuff

The imagery also introduces the next story. Cam attended a celebrity bash at a nightclub (presumably with bottles of liquor, fashion models and hollow tipped bullets) the night he was shot

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A typical Cam'ron diss structure. He describes his life and yours in brief, unrelated vignettes: his lavish life is represented by the shine of his jewelry (the “light” coming off his white “ice” (diamonds)), while you’re involved in knife fights with street people

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Short for VVS diamonds, or those with only “very, very small inclusions”

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The P.O. threatens back, saying she has evidence from a wiretap implicating him in a drug deal

“Quarter chicken” is an unusual, playful construction for ¼ kilo of cocaine, used to fit the rhyme scheme (in Dipset parlance, a “bird” is a kilo, and chickens are birds, so…)

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A twist on the childhood game. Cam either plays duck, duck goose to decide who he’s going to kill, or he has fun with his victims, making them duck bullets and say silly things to amuse him

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In this song, Cam'ron recounts his criminal exploits in the Midwest. He also uses Flavor Flav’s name as a verb

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Nice imagery: Like a capricious taxman, Cam will divide the rival drug dealer (“family”)’s loaf as he sees fit

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Big’s bragging about his convertible BMW (not the regularity of his Bowel Movements). The BMW 325i was a popular drop-top in 1994:

“The man” has been slang for a highly respected person since at least the 1950s—the first recorded use of the term appears in 1952’s seminal beat novel Flee The Angry Strangers, where jazz icon Louis Armstrong is called “the man.”

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Moving from Chicago to Ohio – he dealt drugs across the entire state, but started his enterprise in Columbus, home of the Ohio State Buckeyes. Also, could be referencing him starting off dealing small quantities about the size of a buckeye to dealing “the whole Ohio”–distributing larger amounts

A buckeye

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An Interstate Highway connecting Chicago and Northern Indiana

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