Shaking to bake, shaking the Jakes
Kill you, shoot the funeral up and Harlem Shake at your wake Cam'ron (Ft. Kanye West & Syleena Johnson) – Down And Out
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The “Harlem Shake” is a dance. But Cam'ron is not dancing; he is in Harlem, shaking nervous in a cold sweat because he’s worried about his crack deals and “shaking” (avoiding) the “Jakes” (cops)…once he kills you and shoots up your funeral, then he can do the dance
“Shaking to bake” (means “itching to get back to the stove and cook more crack!”) is a slight allusion to popular bread-crumb coating Shake ‘n Bake
Harlem Shake demo:
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George Pataki was a New York Governor known for his tough stance on drug dealers
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Leroy “Nicky” Barnes aka Mr. Untouchable aka The Teflon Don is a famous drug dealer who made his fortune selling heroin in Harlem (Cam is from there as well, and he also sells drugs)
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A “hammer” is a gun. When Cam'ron declares “hammer time” he doesn’t mean what MC Hammer means or the foot condition known as hammer toe (called “hammer time” in the Eddie Murphy movie Boomerang); he means his gun.
Also a reference to Arm & Hammer baking soda, which is used to make crack. This follows directly the gram or dime line mentioned just before
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Playing soccer, stupid, stay in a sucker's place Cam'ron (Ft. Kanye West & Syleena Johnson) – Down And Out
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A reference to Bill Cosby’s ads in the 1980’s for Jello Pudding (“Pudding” also means money)
Cam'ron also frequently likens cooking drugs to baking pies and cakes; he was bored just watching other people make money, so he got into the drug business.
This also ties into the earlier Brooklyn reference. Brooklyn is the main setting of The Cosby Show, where the Huxtable family resides in a two-story brownstone at 10 Stigwood Avenue.
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“Rich and A” are Rich Porter and Alpo, two flamboyant New York drug kingpins of the 80s. Alpo killed Rich in 1990 over (you guessed it) yayo
The movie Paid in Full, which Cam'ron starred in, was based on Rich and A (Cam'ron suavely portrayed Rico)
A is for Azie aka AZ not Alpo!