Brooklyn Go Hard

"I father, I Brooklyn Dodger them. I jack... I rob... I sin.. Aw man (Amen). I'm Jackie Robinson, except when I run base, I dodge the pen"

The fact that he opens up and ends that first line like a prayer is ill. Like he's repenting for all the people he's hurt.

But when he says "except when I run base I dodge the pen"

Obviously, the real Jackie Robinson ran bases.

But, when Jay was out selling drugs (free BASE cocaine aka crack) he was trying to stay out of the pen (penitentiary).

BUT!!!!!

If you are a true Jay-Z fan, you know that Jay developed his song writing ability while out on the streets, hustling. He couldn't stop and write down rhymes so he had to keep them in his head by going over them and adding to them until he could get somewhere to write them down. Think of a time when you knew you had to talk to somebody. The more you went over it in your head and the more you practiced it, the better it came out.

So when he was out running base, he dodged the pen. Writing only in his head...