the 1992 movie “Juice” is based in NY and the main ideology of the protagonists and antagonists is that having “juice” means being the big man on the block and in the streets and being able illicit respect or fear from friends and enemies

here Kurupt suggests that if the NYC rappers claim to be running the rap game he is coming to disprove that.

Another way to say get high, slanted eyes, normally associated with the Asian ethnicity, tend to be a symptom of being intoxicated by marijuana.

Gangsters actually walk the walk whereas pimps talk loud & don’t necessarily back it up.

This is a nod to Chicago with notorious gangsters such as Larry Hoover and David Barksdale and pimps such as Don Magic Juan and Iceberg Slim. His school is Chicago and he’s showing his spirit aka repping his town through his music explaining where his inspirations came from.

Ja Rule’s 4th Studio Album

Refer to how 3-6 Mafia started out with horrocore rap and normally used uptempo beats and then by 2000 they had became more entrenched in the “Screw” Culture starting with the famous “Sippin on Some Syrup” where songs focus on being slowed and made to be chopped and screwed.

The line before Paul says, Now my heart don’t know what to think. So he’s referring to the counter effects of the yayo and the lean; the yayo having his heart beating fast, as it does, and the lean, slowing his heart rhythm down, as it does. His heart, “don’t know what to think.”

Famous line off the hook sung by H.A.W.K. on Lil O’s “Back Back” released in 2001 off his Fat Rat Wit Da Cheeze album.