The rumor is that when Ice Cube left he had no intentions of dissing NWA. However he had no problem dissing Jerry Heller and high ranking officials of Ruthless Records. NWA felt Cube was being selfish and dissed him first on “100 Miles and Runnin”.

Cube then created this Kill at Will EP with this song put on to use a collection of beats he, allegedly, knew NWA would, allegedly, use on their upcoming projects he was no longer working on.

This caused NWA to attack Cube full scale on Efil4zaggiN

Interestingly this was released in 1991. In 1992 Ice Cube was known nationwide as “Doughboy” and had two critically acclaimed solo albums under his belt. Meanwhile Dr. Dre teamed up with Snoop Dogg and help founded Death Row Records.

So I take it Dre ate a lot of crow for this in hindsight.

Taken from his smash hit collab with Jay-Z off Life in 1472

If you haven’t picked up by now Jay used this verse to stake his claim as always running New York from Biggie’s death to present day of this album. Other artists and media personalities claimed Jay-Z fell off because of his pop-centric Vol. 1 album and what was an infamous sample of “Annie” for his “Hard Knock Life” song and his slightly disappointing Vol. 3 album(which he alludes to in previous line).

The masses had began to flock behind a particular artist from the Queensbridge projects when it came to who held down the streets and not the billboard charts.

Jay saying if he was always the King of NY after Biggie(like he did on City is Mine) then how could anyone say he ever fell off the top of throne of NY and therefore not running the east coast rap scene(with NYC being the epicenter of east coast music)?

A dig at the person who stated the line: “It’s One Life One Love So there can only be one king.” and ensued to claim he owned the throne over the passing years.

he didnt have so he lived by the motto, “I Gotta make mine so Imma take yours”

they got arrested and ended up in county jail

planned robbery

Typical khaki suit popularized in LA

Parents in the hood trying to look out for their children. Try to push them to anything to keep them off the corners at night. Sports is normally the easiest choice. But I’m sure Snoops tone is of a sarcastic tone because he has already been corrupted by the deceit of the street life.