Must be a sea plane.

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Not entirely true: the East Coast actually suffered a major blackout in 2003

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January 31st, 2013

At the time of this song’s release (to wit, May 14, 2002) the 2003 blackout hadn’t occurred yet.

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Madison Square Garden is an arena in NY — it hosts the Knicks and a variety of other sporting events (N.Y. Rangers Hockey, Big East Tournament, boxing matches etc.)

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The Manhattan Criminal Courthouse (click here to Map it out)

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Love the elimination of prepositions here!

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January 2nd, 2013

Or he could be saying “mingle in England, meddle in the Netherlands”, which would make more sense.

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Roc-A-Fella records, Jay-Z’s label

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Hmmm

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You’ve got your arm draped over some girl’s shoulders until Jay sweeps her away

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“Bread” is money

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Jay used to take the cab to Manhattan to sell cocaine. His projects were full of “raw” (uncut cocaine). Papi (his distributor — see other references to the mythical “Papi” here) would front you some product (“on consignment”) to sell if you were short on cash

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mcr
March 1st, 2013

‘cabbing it’ is also an extension of the political metaphor from the previous line (cabinet)

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