Organic rhymes..

Like branches grow on trees, and avalanches form on cliffs, flows originate from Biggie

The beat to this song samples “Overnight Sensation” by a band called Avalanche. It might seem a bit of a stretch to say that he was referencing it, but Biggie was known to watch producers while they were making a beat for him.

Jay’s trying to “stretch out” (dilute) the cocaine to sell more of it. Weight is slang for drugs, and wrestlers frequently cut weight in order to make a lower weight class.

Wrestlers stretch people (chiropractors do, too). Also, a wrestler’s fluctuation in weight leads to stretch marks, which cocoa butter is used to remove.

The chorus of this song, “when the MCs came…” is from GZA, RZA, and ODB’s old act. Hence, they’re taking it back to where it came from, preparing the listener to be ‘schooled’ in the art of hip-hop. A firm believer that Wu-Tang is the purest form of hip-hop, RZA often states things similar to this in songs.

He simply wishes to remind people that they are pioneers of hip-hop and people should recognize where other rappers may have gotten their style from. As with so many Wu-Tang lyrics, ‘Do the Knowledge’ is a Five-Percenter reference, in this case to the 120 Lessons.

Also it is a classic Willie Mitchell instrumental titled “Groovin'” that was used for the track. This comes in as the shift in samples takes place. This makes a reference to the soul music that heavily influenced much of the Wu Tang library, as noted in Shaolin Soul Vol 1 and 2.

Meant as a post response to the interlude from a classic kung fu film, that many Wu-Tang members incorporate into their onstage personas and lyrics.

All the artists that Wayne shouts out here are on the original version of “We Takin' Over” (except Brisco)

Brisco did a remix of “We Takin' Over” with Triple C’s, DJ Khaled, Flo Rida, Ashley Ross and Rick Ross. This could be why Wayne’s shouting him out here, or it could just be because they’re on the same label.

To be fly is to have swagger and style. At the same time he uses it to make people see that he’s been “up there” for so long that to “fly” on a plane would be boring, making him fall asleep while other would be greatfull to be “Fly” or be “flying”.

Wayne loves to talk about being bored of being the best: on the “Can’t Tell Me Nothing” freestyle he says “I’m so tired of balling excuse me if I yawn”

Unlike his rapping peers (e.g. Jay Z), Drake doesn’t respond to disses.

This claim is backed up by the Pusha T/YMCMB feud back in 2012. Pusha T was dissing Drake, but it was Lil Wayne that clapped back, and all he got from Drake was a few subliminals in “Lord Knows”.

That being said, Drake almost certainly replied to Common’s disses on Sweet in Rick Ross' Stay Schemin', and may or may not have replied to Kendrick Lamar’s Control verse on either The Language or Future’s Shit Remix.

In 2015 Drake replied to another diss, this time set off by a set of tweets from Meek Mill. Rather than just tweeting back or staying quiet, Drake hit Meek with the one-two punch of “Charged Up” and “Back to Back.”