Glossed by: Nekayhaw McNeal
1) Sirat al-Mustaqeem: The Sirat al-Misaim is an Arabic term for the Islamic concept of the straight path, or the way of life which makes God happy (it’s a quote from the first Surah in the Quran: Surat Al-Fatiha):
2) Hit it: 'to have sex'
3) Benjamin’s: Benjamins are 100 dollar bills. The reason people call them Benjamins is because the face on the bill is of Benjamin Franklin who was a publisher, a philosopher, a scientist, and the first major American inventor. Also this means a person who requires a certain amount of wealth. P Diddy Sean Puffy Combs popularized this word in his song “All about the Benjamins”
4)Trim: Vagina
5)Down: 1.To be with or for a cause of action.
6) Talking out your neck: To speak nonsense, garbage.
7) A Muslim sleeping with the gin: The woman in question is claiming to have moral and religious values and that she is a Muslim, but in reality she has no values and is going down the wrong path (aka sleeping with the “jinn”). It is not kosher for a true Muslim to drink gin or even sleep with gin.
8)Jezebel: According to the Midrash, Jezebel’s main sin was converting King Ahab from Judaism to some sort of idolatry.
9)Showing off your ass:Women who flaunt their bodies.
10)Niggas fucked up: Dishonorable, unfaithful men.
11)Million women: Using the example of the Million Woman March, held in Philadelphia, Lauryn tells her fellow women to respect and value themselves.
12)That thing: This term is a euphemism which means “money” in the case of women being after men with money and for the case with men “That thing” means sex.
13)More concerned with his rims and his Timbs than his women: At the time when the song was written, dudes were more concerned about what rims to add to their car and the condition of his Timberlands (popular well known boots in some African American communities)
14) Poping yang: Means talking trash, nonsense, baloney.
15)Yen: Japanese currency.
16)Cristal: The name of a champagne produced exclusively by Louis Roderer, popularized to mainstream by big-label hip-hop artists such as P. Diddy, Jay-Z, and J.D.
17) Bid: Bid is Street slang for a prison sentence.
R&B/Hip Hop
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