Mallory: The "red monkey junkie" part is referring to the Red Monkey line of jeans, a very expensive brand of jeans ($700+ for some) that is favored by rappers and real drug dealers a-like. So he's basically just saying he loves to wear red monkey jeans and that he probably has a lot of them. The "Mr. 17-5" is him saying his "number" (price for narcotics, in this case a kilogram of cocaine), which is $17,500. Many rappers, Pimp C of UGK for one, has called him out saying how he wasn't getting no $17,500 number in Atlanta; maybe in...
Mallory: The "red monkey junkie" part is referring to the Red Monkey line of jeans, a very expensive brand of jeans ($700+ for some) that is favored by rappers and real drug dealers a-like. So he's basically just saying he loves to wear red monkey jeans and that he probably has a lot of them. The "Mr. 17-5" is him saying his "number" (price for narcotics, in this case a kilogram of cocaine), which is $17,500. Many rappers, Pimp C of UGK for one, has called him out saying how he wasn't getting no $17,500 number in Atlanta; maybe in Texas but not in Atlanta where he was from. However, he was close friends with Demetrius "Big Meech" Flenory, leader of the Black Mafia Family, a drug trafficking organization, and in court testimony it was revealed that BMF sold kilos to their members for $17,500 (or cheaper sometimes) and re-sold them for $20,000 on average in the Atlanta area. It was also revealed that one member saw Jeezy receive multiple kilos one time.
So can anyone "break it down" for me about what all the street terms mean....like red monkey junkie .....or Mr. 17-5?
Mallory: The "red monkey junkie" part is referring to the Red Monkey line of jeans, a very expensive brand of jeans ($700+ for some) that is favored by rappers and real drug dealers a-like. So he's basically just saying he loves to wear red monkey jeans and that he probably has a lot of them. The "Mr. 17-5" is him saying his "number" (price for narcotics, in this case a kilogram of cocaine), which is $17,500. Many rappers, Pimp C of UGK for one, has called him out saying how he wasn't getting no $17,500 number in Atlanta; maybe in...
Mallory: The "red monkey junkie" part is referring to the Red Monkey line of jeans, a very expensive brand of jeans ($700+ for some) that is favored by rappers and real drug dealers a-like. So he's basically just saying he loves to wear red monkey jeans and that he probably has a lot of them. The "Mr. 17-5" is him saying his "number" (price for narcotics, in this case a kilogram of cocaine), which is $17,500. Many rappers, Pimp C of UGK for one, has called him out saying how he wasn't getting no $17,500 number in Atlanta; maybe in Texas but not in Atlanta where he was from. However, he was close friends with Demetrius "Big Meech" Flenory, leader of the Black Mafia Family, a drug trafficking organization, and in court testimony it was revealed that BMF sold kilos to their members for $17,500 (or cheaper sometimes) and re-sold them for $20,000 on average in the Atlanta area. It was also revealed that one member saw Jeezy receive multiple kilos one time.