What is Ends?
1.
Money. What we all live and die for.
"Ends. Some people would rob they mother for the ends.
Rats snitch on one another for the ends.
Sometimes kids get murdered, for the ends.
So before we go any further I want my ends." - Everlast "Ends".
"So he falls off track, starts smoking the crack. And once it hits his brain it starts to chain react."
2.
your 'ends' is your area
"what ends you from?"
3.
n. financial resources. Money.
"Let me hold some ends, I' hook you up on de first, my brotha"
4.
Money, payment. Short for dividENDS.
Told all my friends: Don't drink 8-ball, cause St. Ides is givin ends!
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5.
n. money , finacial support or advancement, financial success
as in "get a job, sukka. you gotta make them ends meet (implied)"
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6.
Paper money....dollars, tens, twenties, hundreds.
"Yo man....let me hold some ends. I'll hit you back on Friday, my brother."
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7.
Compensation, usually cash. Derived from the expression "making ends meet".
A Tribe Called Quest's Q-Tip from "Everything is Fair":
"She just got a Benz,
she rides with her friends,
gotta keep a beeper in her purse to make ends..."
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