99 - Problems

: Mason famously refutes the lyric implying that a locked trunk requires a warrant for a police search. He explains that if police have probable cause, the "automobile exception" allows them to search any part of the vehicle that could contain the evidence.

Because of the song's massive cultural impact, the "99 Problems" phrasing is frequently used as a framework for long-form analysis in other fields: Book Review : Ben Tanzer - 99 Problems - Dead End Follies 99 Problems

: A line-by-line breakdown of a 1994 traffic stop where Jay-Z (as a young drug dealer) is pulled over while carrying "raw" (cocaine) in his trunk. : Mason famously refutes the lyric implying that

This 2010 book is a series of "musings" written during the winter of 2009 while Tanzer prepared for various runs. This 2010 book is a series of "musings"

Published in the Saint Louis University Law Journal in 2012, this essay uses the second verse of Jay-Z’s hit song to teach .

: Tanzer treats running as a structural tool for his life and writing, using the physical act of exertion to process anxieties about aging, fatherhood, and his father’s death.