GoldenEye 007 was a first person shooter for the Nintendo 64 based on the James Bond movie by the same name. Originally released in 1997, the game was a huge success thanks in part to its popular mulitplayer mode.

Trinidad’s reference here is interesting because of the “All Gold Everything”/Goldeneye connection. Deeper than that, one of the game’s strongest weapons is the “golden gun” which had the ability to kill an opponent with just one shot. Perhaps Trinidad is using this simple reference to speak on his prowess on the mic.

More simply, the beats sounds like the last level of Goldeneye, Egyptian. That’s why he says “Shit sounds like 007 on N64”

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MMjZKXaptBk

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3t33HXyN6WM

Russian Roullete is often used in cinema, literature, and in music to symbolize recklessness and the complete lack of care for ones own life and/or the lives of others.

The critically acclaimed 1979 movie The Deer Hunter has two of the most famous and controversial scenes depicting russian roulette.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iBWXMZNUVuQ

This is a reference to Fat Trel’s “Respect With This Tech” Both “Russian Roullete” and “Respect With This Tech” were produced by Lex Luger.

Beside the shared production credentials, the songs are pretty similar in the cadence of the chorus and lyrical content.

The Chicago and Washington D.C. connection they have going on in this song.

Chiraq is a nickname for Chicago. It is a mash up of the words Chicago and Iraq. More than that, the nickname is probably a mashup of another known nickname for the city: “Chitown” (rhymes with shy) and Iraq (usually pronounced like “eye-rack”)

This name addresses the violence and danger of the streets of Chicago by comparing it to a warzone.

Gucci buys all of his jewelry, he never borrows it. Unbeknownst to many people, a lot of jewelry draped on celebrities is rented. A New York Time Article from 2003 titled All That Glitters Has Most Likely Been Borrowed talks about jewelry houses that specialize in lending jewelry to celebrities for publicity:

For exclusive jewelry houses, the risk to the jaw-dropping ‘'loaners’‘ that drape the stars as they stroll the red carpet is minor compared with the potential reward in free publicity. Not only does a vast audience see Halle and Nicole and J. Lo scintillate in megacarat eye candy, but the photographs splashed across the globe are recycled for years. What’s more, some of the pieces are sold right off a star’s back, so to speak. The $490,000 Chanel diamond comet necklace worn by Celine Dion in 1997 and the Fred Leighton 19th-century diamond-and-pearl necklace Madonna wore the same year were snapped up afterward.

Maybe Gucci watches the Oscars to see what his next purchase will be?

Probably not.