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by mdorazio 3031 days ago
I feel like that would be better paired with the "dough" double meaning instead of bread. "Life's a shit pizza, the more dough you have the less it tastes like shit."
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Bread is a synonym for dough in that meaning
dough is colloquialism for money, which makes the quote funnier due to the double entendre.
"Bread" is also a colloquialism for money. It's the same joke.
I have never heard any rapper refer to money as bread!
https://www.etymonline.com/word/Bread

> Slang meaning "money" dates from 1940s, but compare breadwinner, and bread as "one's livelihood" dates to 1719. Bread and circuses (1914) is from Latin, in reference to food and entertainment provided by the government to keep the populace content. "Duas tantum res anxius optat, Panem et circenses" [Juvenal, Sat. x.80].

Here is one where they use bread, dough and cheese to mean money: https://genius.com/105625
"Bread and Honey" is rhyming slang for Money.
so is bread.