“Feelin’ It”
To all the girls I bought a girdle to conceal my bricks
No doubt, they can vouch my life is real as shit…
The ganstaness in this line comes from the originality of the gangsta motif. To speak of the act of smuggling by women friends/lovers, specifically the girdles they have to wear.
“Allure”
Say hooray to the bad guy, and all the broads
Putting cards in their name for the stars of the game
Putting ‘caine in their bras and their tomorrows on the train
All in the name of love
Just to see that love locked in chains and the family came
over the house to take back, everything that they claimed
Or even the worst pain is the distress
Learning you’re the mistress only after that love gets slain
And the anger and the sorrow mixed up, leads to mistrust
Now it gets tough to ever love a-gain
—Yet another reference to friends/lovers who transport cocaine across states. This time he goes deeper and describes the emotional ties, even drawing out a possibly dramatic situation (”Learning you’re the mistress only after that love gets slain” How dramatic!).
But the allure of the game, keeps callin your name
To all the Lauras of the world, I feel your pain
To all the Christies in every cities and Tiffany Lane’s
We all hustlers, in love with the same thang
–That mention of Charli Baltimore’s government name probably goes largely unoticed. But for those who notice, it further mythologizes Charli who was once rumoured to be Biggie’s ride-or-die chick.
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