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WAYS TO BE BALLin’!!!!!
As told to Julia Beverly // Photo by Rico da Crook
Make Sure You Got A Driver Shit, if you’re a baller, most likely you should be in the back gettin’ high and enjoying the sights while he’s driving you around.
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Make Sure Your Bills Are Paid You can’t be runnin’ around with eviction notices talkin’ about “Ballin’!” That’s not a good look. You can’t have that car note and get repoed, that’s not a good look. So make sure your bills are paid, for starters.
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Make Sure They Close The Store When You Go In They know you’re about to spend that gwop if they close the store. And every time you’re in Foot Locker, get about 10 pairs of all-white Airs. You can’t just keep one pair of them Nike Airs; get about a dozen so you ain’t gotta come back for a couple months.
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Have The Car Dealer on Speed Dial That’s just in case you gotta hop in something new and pretty, you know what I’m talkin’ about? Me, I just bought what they call a S 63, a McLaren, probably the most expensive Benz they got - $175,000. Then, I’m gonna get this Aston Martin. I wanted to get it for my birthday but I didn’t have a chance to go look at it.
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The Bank Manager Has Gotta Know You By Your First Name You know, you should’ve been in there to withdraw $90,000 at a time, buck fifty at a time. No bank tellers, bank managers only. We don’t stop and talk to the tellers. No disrespect to nobody, but I’m in a different lane.
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Get Them Good Rates On Them Jets A true baller loves a good rate. Unless you’re power ballin’. There’s ballin’, super ballin’, super dooper ballin’, and then there’s power ballin’. Super dooper ballin’ is extravagant. Super ballin’ means you’re off the Richter scale. Power ballin’ means you don’t even know what to do with yourself cause you’ve got so much fuckin’ money. Me, I’m on super ballin’ right now. I’m two levels down from power ballin’. I stepped up to super and I’m tryin’ to get to dooper. I’ma keep it funky, I can’t lie. I’m not a power baller.
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Know How To Pick Out A Good Bag and Good Shoes For Your Lady If you’ve got fly ladies, they’re gonna put you on to what’s poppin’ anyway.
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Your Watch Game Gotta Be Spectacular You’ve gotta get shit from Switzerland and all that. And you ain’t never supposed to have the right time on your watch if you’re gettin’ money. That’s why I buy so much ice. I know [the watch hands] ain’t moving. They frozen. We stuck in time, baby.
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Utilities Wallet, credit cards, and at least $20,000 in cash on a daily basis.
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Say Your Prayers ‘Cause everything could be over tomorrow.
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