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Wayne is repping his hometown, on whose streets he carries a Glock 17.

This, coincidentally, holds 17 shots, but the model designation is unrelated.

On top of that, the number of the street that he grew up in “Apple & Eagle” is 17

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Lil Wayne is the most well-known user of the recreational narcotic drink known as lean or syrup.

Until sometime in mid-2010, Wayne was never seen without a white styrofoam cup of syrup in his hand.

He had become so tolerant of its effects, it kept him alert instead of impairing him with its typical slow, dizzying high. This is why he felt that he “won’t slip,” even though the amount he drank had him as unsteady and vulnerable as someone with a fractured pelvis.

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A comparison to the characters in Ocean’s Eleven, most of whom wear distinctive sunglasses. Lil Wayne alludes to them because of the darkness of his shades (very dark glasses are colloquially known as “locs”) and their sophisticated styling. Also, as in Ocean’s Eleven, Wayne wears his sunglasses while obtaining huge amounts of cash. He is so money-hungry that stock tickers can be seen in each of his lenses.

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Yes, they’re doing things that draw attention to them, and people think less of them for it, but Wayne and his crew think of it this way; Jesus had haters too, and he maintains a strong fan base to this day. Since one of Wayne’s nicknames is “The Young God” and he often claims in his songs that he is not from Earth, it’s easy to see why he makes this connection.

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Since Lil Wayne is a supposed member of the Bloods gang, he wears their trademark red bandana in his rear right pocket. Since he also wears jeans by the then-desirable Japanese brand Evisu, whose back pockets bear a distinct insignia, his bandana covers the logo on one side.

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He walks around with $20,000 in his pockets. If a woman is obviously sleeping with him for money, Ross will make sure she is minimally rewarded. The amount of money she’d come back with would be laughably small, so he compares it to the ridiculous mascot of a tedious children’s restaurant

Also, notice the “cheese” wordplay; cheese as in both the mascot’s last name and a slang term for money.

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This is basically him just comparing his opponent negatively to himself. It’s a possible continuation of the last line, in which case “pause on the pork” would have also been a homophone rhyme “paws on the pork” meaning he thinks of him as a dog. The line is made wittier by his subtly ironic reference to himself as “your dog,” meaning in this case simply “your boy” or “this guy.”

This line is a popular saying mostly in other European languages, it means that you, who makes the money and is feeding everybody, is the one not living really extravagant but just eating from a bowl, while his dog, his lower man who might also work for him, are being excessively flashy and spending too much for their standards and what they have accomplished in the game.

In essence, if you have alot of money you need to train your people to make money too otherwise they’ll just be waiting for handouts and that doesn’t breed loyalty.

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K.C. Jones is a prominent retired basketball player and coach. It would makes sense, then, that he would have “game” of sufficient quality for Birdman to want some of it. There’s a good chance that Birdman went to a recent basketball game with Jones, proving the analogy.

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If you are shot in the neck, it may hit your larynx, which is known as the Adam’s apple.

Wayne is playing on the common colloquialism by combining it with the slang term for a 30-round rifle magazine.

Because when you put them together, you have…

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Ross thinks it’s ironic that as the only male child in his family, he’s also the only one who cooks. Keep in mind, though, that he means this

and probably not this

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