3:40 when he talks about life Too $hort gotta get it before they blow the whistle is a double meaning, it’s like life is a game and you gotta win before the end when they blow the whistle, but also it’s a a reference to too $horts famous song blow the whistle
From this interview www.billboard.com/articles/columns/hip-hop/8463430/dj-premier-drake-sandra-rose-scorpion-interview Premier says: "A week or two passed and Drake hit me and said Drake has this sample he wants me to flip. It’s done by an artist named Maneesh. He’s signed to 40. He creates his own sample sounds to sound like the soul samples, but he creates them himself. When he told me he really wanted me to flip it, he said he really likes the way my drums and bass lines bounce, he said he wanted the Preemo bounce. I was like, “All right, let me hear it.”
