When Jay-Z unveiled the artwork for Magna Carta…Holy Grail, he made sure to give it the museum treatment. There are only four copies of the Magna Carta left in existence, and Hov somehow convinced England’s Salisbury Cathedral to let him leave his album on display beside their copy until the end of the month.

In treating the album the same reverence you’d bestow upon an original Matisse, or an important historical document, Jay-Z also hinted at the subject matter of MCHG‘s second track. Since obtaining unimaginable levels of wealth and power, Jay-Z’s day-to-day is less focused on slangin’, and more focused on obsessively hangin’…hangin’ expensive-ass art on his walls, that is. “Picasso Baby” is the closest thing you’ll find to an art history lesson on a hip-hop record, with Jay-Z dropping lyrical references to art galleries, museums, revolutionary painters, and graffiti artists.

Sometimes the annotations on RapGenius don’t quite cut it, so we turned to Wikipedia to help decode some of these high culture name drops. Here are sixteen art references from Jay-Z’s “Picasso Baby”:

Pablo Picasso

“I just want a Picasso, in my casa / No, my castle / I’m a hassa, no I’m a asshole.”

According to Wikipedia: “As one of the greatest and most influential artists of the 20th century, he is widely known for co-founding the Cubist movement, the invention of constructed sculpture, the co-invention of collage, and for the wide variety of styles that he helped develop and explore.”

According to AUX: Keep saving your pennies, Hov. An original Picasso went for $155 million earlier this year.

Mark Rothko

“I’m never satisfied, can’t knock my hustle / I wanna Rothko, no I wanna brothel.”

According to Wikipedia: “He is generally identified as an Abstract Expressionist, although he himself rejected this label and even resisted classification as an ‘abstract painter.’ With Jackson Pollock and Willem de Kooning, he is one of the most famous postwar American artists.”

According to AUX: Good news, everyone! Your nieces and nephews are all “abstract expressionists”! Give ’em a bunch of finger paint, and watch the money pile up.

Jeff Koons

“Jeff Koons balloons, I just wanna blow up.”

According to Wikipedia: “An American artist known for his reproductions of banal objects—such as Balloon animals produced in stainless steel with mirror finish surfaces.”

According to AUX: When a clown blows up a giant balloon dick, it’s creepy. When Koons does it, it’s art.

George Condo

“Condos in my condos.”

According to Wikipedia: “An American contemporary visual artist working in the mediums of painting, drawing, sculpture and printmaking. Condo has occupied a prominent position in the art world for close to three decades.”

According to AUX: Hilariously, you could probably buy ten literal condos for the price of one of this dude’s paintings. I wonder if I could rent some art for between $800 and $1000 a month. Painting must include en-suite laundry.

Christie’s

“I wanna row of Christie’s with my missy.”

According to Wikipedia: “Christie’s is an art business and a fine arts auction house, currently the world’s largest, with sales for the first half of 2012, some $3.5 billion, representing the highest total for a corresponding period in company and art market history.”

According to AUX: This ain’t yo’ daddy’s Storage Wars.

The Museum Of Modern Art

“Live at the MoMA.”

According to Wikipedia: “An art museum in Midtown Manhattan in New York City (on 53rd Street) between Fifth and Sixth Avenues. It has been important in developing and collecting modernist art, and is often identified as the most influential museum of modern art in the world.”

According to AUX: If I was homeless, I bet I could live in a giant sculpture at the MoMA, undetected, for like, at least a month or two.

Francis Bacon

“Bacons and turkey bacons / Smell the aroma.”

According to Wikipedia: “An Irish-born British figurative painter known for his bold, graphic and emotionally raw imagery. Bacon’s painterly but abstracted figures typically appear isolated in glass or steel geometrical cages set against flat, nondescript backgrounds.”

According to AUX: Turkey bacons? GTFO.

Jean-Michel Basquiat

“It ain’t hard to tell / I’m the new Jean Michel.”

“Yellow Basquiat in my kitchen corner / Go ahead lean on that shit Blue / You own it.”

According to Wikipedia: “He began as an obscure graffiti artist in New York City in the late 1970s and evolved into an acclaimed Neo-expressionist and Primitivist painter by the 1980s.”

According to AUX: Yo, why do rappers love Basquiat so much?

Andy Warhol

“Surrounded by Warhols / My whole team ball”

According to Wikipedia: “An American artist who was a leading figure in the visual art movement known as pop art. His works explore the relationship between artistic expression, celebrity culture and advertisement that flourished by the 1960s.”

According to AUX: Get rich quick scheme: 1) paint your dinner. 2) ????? 3) Profit.

Art Basel

“Twin Bugattis outside the Art Basel / I just wanna live life colossal.”

According to Wikipedia: “Art Basel stages art shows for Modern and Contemporary works, sited annually in Basel, Miami Beach, and Hong Kong. Each show has participating galleries, exhibition sectors, the artworks on display, and parallel programming produced in collaboration with the host city’s local institutions.”

According to AUX: “Will the owners of the two identical Buggattis blocking the entrance way please move them? There is a free parking lot literally twenty feet to their left. Jay-Z…is that you? I thought we’d been over this. God, who needs two identical Bugattis? Couldn’t you and ‘Ye have carpooled?”

Leonardo da Vinci

“Leonardo Da Vinci flows.”

According to Wikipedia: “An Italian Renaissance polymath: painter, sculptor, architect, musician, mathematician, engineer, inventor, anatomist, geologist, cartographer, botanist, and writer. His genius, perhaps more than that of any other figure, epitomized the Renaissance humanist ideal.”

According to AUX: Is Jay-Z a modern polymath? Rapper, label CEO, entrepreneur, sports agent, giant nerd.

The Met

“See me throning at the Met / Vogueing on these niggas / Champagne on my breath, yes.”

According to Wikipedia: “The Metropolitan Museum of Art, located in New York City, is the largest art museum in the United States, and one of the three largest in the world, with the most significant art collections. Its permanent collection contains more than two million works, divided among seventeen curatorial departments.”

According to AUX: Well, “throning” is my new favourite verb.

The Louvre

“House like the Louvre….”

According to Wikipedia: “One of the world’s largest museums, and a historic monument. With more than 8 million visitors each year, the Louvre is the world’s most visited museum.”

According to AUX: If we hassled Guru for the MCHG outtakes, I bet there are a TON of mispronunciations on ’em.

The Tate Modern

“…or the Tate Modern.”

According to Wikipedia: “Tate Modern is a modern art gallery located in London. Tate holds the national collection of British art from 1500 to the present day and international modern and contemporary art.”

According to AUX: You know what they say…if ‘taint the Tate, t’aint fit to hold mid-century English art.

The Mona Lisa

“Sleeping every night next to Mona Lisa / The modern day version / With better features.”

According to Wikipedia: “A half-length portrait of a woman by the Italian artist Leonardo da Vinci, which has been acclaimed as ‘the best known, the most visited, the most written about, the most sung about, the most parodied work of art in the world.'”

According to AUX: Nice save, Jay-Z.

SAMO

“Spray everything like SAMO / I won’t scratch the Lambo.”

According to Wikipedia: “SAMO is a graffiti tag used on the streets of New York City from 1977 to early 1980. It accompanied short phrases, in turns poetic and sarcastic, mainly painted on the streets of downtown Manhattan. The tag, written with a copyright symbol as “SAMO©”, and pronounced Same-Oh has been primarily associated with the artist Jean-Michel Basquiat, but was developed mainly as a collaboration between Basquiat and Al Diaz, with help from a few friends.”

According to AUX: What, you mean like Banksy, or whatever?