Jay-Z’s “Lebron/Dwayne Wade” line in Empire State of Mind

“I got it made/If Jeezy’s payin’ LeBron, I’m paying Dwyane Wade.”

I don’t listen to Jeezy, so for a while I didn’t know what the hell he meant. I Googled it a few weeks ago and found the real answer, then I just acted like I always knew. But since this song became the official Yankees anthem during the World Series, I tried to erase all memories of it.

So some guy decided to get to the bottom of it for the good of white mankind and non-Jeezy listeners. And he wrote an article about it.

In Young Jeezy’s song “24-23 (Kobe-Lebron),” Jeezy uses the players’ jersey numbers to articulate the price he’s paying of a kilogram of cocaine.

The chorus of that song goes, “I used to pay Kobe [24], but now I pay LeBron [23].” This means that he used to pay $24,000 for a kilo of coke, whereas now? He only pays $23,000, you see.

So. In “Empire,” Jay-Z takes this one step further, so as to show his impressive status in New York. He suggests that, while Jeezy may be paying $23,000, Jay-Z is paying a mere $3000 (expressed as Dwyane Wade’s jersey number) for a kilo of cocaine.

In other news, Jay-Z gets really cheap cocaine. These are great conversation starters at the bar!

Read full article here – http://www.theawl.com/2009/12/a-common-misunderstanding-of-the-lyrics-of-jay-zs-empire-state-of-mind

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