Make it rain on them hoes

Like millions of others, I enjoy rap music. I enjoy it even though I often have no idea what the rappers are saying. Take, for example, the Fat Joe song “Make it Rain.” In it, the aforementioned large gentleman’s apparently smaller friend Lil’ Wayne brags that he “make[s] it rain on them hoes.” It’s a fairly catchy song, and I know I have sung along whtn it was playing on the radio (in private, of course). However, I had no idea what I was singing.

That is, I had no idea what I was singing until now. Apparently, NFL player Pacman Jones (and yes, although his real name is Adam, his jersey reads P. Jones and he is regularly referred to as the popular arcade character) made the trip out to Las Vegas last weekend for the NBA All Star Game. Reportedly, late on Sunday night Pacman and his posse went to a strip club where they “made it rain” on a group of strippers performing for himself and his friends. Apparently this is the act of throwing up so much cash that it “rains on them hoes.” After Pacman and his crew threw up approximately $81,000, the strip club owners tried to pick up all the money in trash bags, which, as one might guess, lead to some commotion, and long story short, one person was hit over the head with a champagne bottle and two more were shot.

But that wasn’t the part that made me stop. Eighty one grand? I want to know, was that 810 one hundred dollar bills? Or 4050 twenties? It couldn’t possibly have been 81,000 ones, could it? That option might be the most fun, however, just grabbing huge handfuls and making giant piles at the strippers’ feet. I think the most I’ve ever brought into a strip club was 20 ones. I certainly have never “made it rain on them hoes.” I guess that’s just another cultural gap between rappers, NFL players named after arcade characters, and me.