Shortly thereafter, 50 Cent gives a roundabout shoutout to 1980s’ hip-hop artist Rakim, with Fiddy acknowledging The R as the “favorite rapper” of his youth. Then he introduces us to a concept which fans of rap music have become quite familiar with, and that was his decision to become a drug dealer in his youth in hopes of achieving bling status.Īnd concerning being able to bling, his grandmother promises to buy him “a sheepskin coat” if he does well in school. As a side note, in inner-city African-American youth cultures the type of coat one wears tends to be a major symbol of wealth. So now Fiddy is really scheming, knowing that the coat, along with additional funds generated via his illicit activities, will allow him to put together a more complete wardrobe. Simply put, the father was living the life of a career criminal, which is another way of basically saying that he was irresponsible.
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Indeed we can say that the inference of Fiddy referencing the absence of his dad thereafter would be that such was why his mom was compelled to behave in such a manner in the first place. And as far as to what his father was actually doing out and about, the vocalist concludes that he was most likely “out committing felonies”.
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This is something which, according to Fiddy, he actually saw. And the way it fits into the overall narrative is by serving as an illustration of the type of “confusion” he grew up with, being symbolic, in his eyes, of the “cold” environment of which he was raised. The first verse commences with the rapper, in this case 50 Cent, expressing that he witnessed his “mommy kissing a girl”.