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Considering that this song seemed destined from its inception to be a huge hit in the Meatpacking District, the Uptown shoutout seems insincere

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An announcement like “I have arrived”

This is nowhere near as popular a meme as “Ballin!”, although rappers definitely say it frequently. Lil Boosie recorded a song called “We in the Building” in 2008.

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Jim Jones is also known as Capo and is credited as director of the “We Fly High” music video under that name

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Jones claims to have taken this ad-lib from 2Pac. Anyone know any Pac songs where he says this?

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Audemars Piguet is a Swiss luxury watch brand; Jim has Audemars studded with diamonds.

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To “make it rain” is to toss dollar bills at strippers en masse; the activity was popularized by the masterpiece song “Make it Rain”

Here, the stripper is making the men make it rain, taken by Jones literally to form a pun on the Indian pow-wow activity (intended to make the gods make it rain)

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“Flossing” (Fr. “frimer”) is a synonym for “balling”, although it focuses more on the conspicuous consumptive aspect and less on the required attitude

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“Lean with it, pop with it” seems based on “Lean Wit It, Rock Wit It" by Dem Franchize Boys, who hail from Bankhead, a neighborhood on the west side of Atlanta.

And “I think she like me” a few lines down seems to be based on another Franchize Boys song, “I Think They Like Me”.

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“‘Vertible” is short for convertible, but Jim seems to be playing on the act of self-invention involved in living the life of a baller: “keeping up with the Joneses”, so to speak

The “Joneses” in “keeping up with the Joneses” refers to the New York socialite family of celebrated auteur Edith Wharton (née Jones), a dame who was always down to ball

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When Cam'ron gets hungry, he just tears through those bacon rolls. He also annihilates luxury cars by driving them too fast. Moreover, he’s quite a “rake” (British term meaning “pimp”). Finally, he’s making cash-money (“Raking in the dough”/“Making dough” etc.)

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