can you explain rap lyrics?
Empire State of Mind
three dice cee-lo and three card monte are both illegal betting games commonly played on the street in underpriviledged urban areas , Jay-Z is referencing in this song that even tho he is wipes his ass with $100 bills now, he is from "the streets".
Three-card monte is a "confidence trick" with three cards, see http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Three-card_Monte
"I don't care how you get here, so long as you come here and have sex with me when I call you."
referring to the previous line, hes comparing his clique(crew) to be as big as the crips( a large gang networked over the us),walking has a double meaning, crip walk (dance), and literally walking
The exact lyrics is "Ya im out that Brooklyn, now I'm down in Tribeca" which mean that he is no longer living in brooklyn, which is a kind of poor city, and that he is now living in Tribeca which is a rich city
This is in reference to the Bedford-Stuyvesant neighbourhood in Brooklyn, New York.
The word is "Monte" not "marley". Three Dice cee lo refers to a dice game played with 3 six-sided dice (rules vary amongst players of the game). Three card monte is gambling game where bets are made and only 3 cards are used.
cee-lo is an old school nyc dice game: you roll three dice, and your score is the odd number, e.g., if you roll 1-1-6, your score is 6. if you roll 4-5-6, you have cee-lo and automatically win.
"Dominicanos" is plural for Dominicans, people from the Dominican Republic. Broadway is a major street that bisects Manhattan and runs straight through Washington Heights, a Dominican neighborhood. Probably had some deal at a McDonald's in the area.
OG is OG" Juan Perez, President of Roc-La-Familia, and Co-Owner of the 40/40 club!
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