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"Up in G" has nothing to with with either subways (no one lives "in" a subway!) or prisons. It means doing very well.

"Away up in G" (also "way up in G" or "up in G") was a turn-of-the-century expression meaning "very high" -- as in G, the highest note of the A to G scale -- or by extension "very well."

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