Usually you would mix a darker liquor like rum or whiskey with eggnog but mc uses Smirnoff vodka to spike his Christmas time ‘nog of choice.

“Lamping” refers to Flavor Flav’s Cold Lampin' With Flavor and means to hang or chill out with friends.

This is Method Man’s first album.

In 1477, Archduke Maximilian of Austria gave his fiance, Mary of Burgundy a diamond ring to signify that his love was worth one of the most expensive materials on Earth at the time.

Here, Barman could be saying that presenting a fiance with a diamond is Faustian in nature because you sacrifice a strong spiritual bond with a partner for literal material gain in the form of a diamond ring. He could also be saying that presenting a diamond ring to a fiance is something that was once reserved for the extremely wealthy and has now translated to even the poor.

This entire portion of lyrics is rhymed in Morse code. If you listen closely you can hear a distinct Morse code message. MCPB raps along side this broadcast to prove he can rhyme literally ANYTHING with a beat, including the incredibly syllabic Morse code.

Since Excuse You on Paullelujah! in 2002, MC Paul Barman has been promising “harsher restraints” on his flow, in particular, rapping in Morse Code.

In this section, Paul’s brag rhymes (with serious lag time) are rapped in a cadence of dots (.) and dashes (_) that spell out the name of his most recent album:

My ( _ ) = T
Rhymes are people ( … . ) = H
They elect ( _ _ _ ) = O
Me to rep ( . . _ ) = U
Each parti- ( _ _ . ) = G
ciple selects ( … . ) = H
Me ( _ ) = T

With pep and care ( _ … ) = B
And the ( _ . ) = A
Gerunds give tri- ( . _ . . ) = L
ple respect to- ( . _ . . ) = L
gether we ( _ _ _ ) = O
Create a ( _ _ _ ) = O
Ripple ( _ . ) = N

Effect ( _ _ ) = M
We might ev- ( . . _ ) = U
en get your ( … ) = S
Nipple erect ( … . ) = H
It’s simple ( . _ . ) = R
As heck they’re ( _ _ _ ) = O
The creme de ( _ _ _ ) = O
La creme ( _ _ ) = M

10 out of 10 ( _ . _ . ) = C
And they’ll vote me ( . _ . . ) = L
In again ( _ _ _ ) = O
and again ( . . _ ) = U
Detritus ( _ . . ) = D

Message is the album title: Thought Balloon Mushroom Cloud

If this line had been rhymed without the morse code, Paul’s signature use of internal rhyming would be more obvious (“triple respect” “ripple effect” “nipple erect”). He also Morse-Codes-out the letter “D” while pronouncing the “De-” in the word “detritus” which is a clever way to end the section.

During President George W. Bush’s second term, Secretary of State and General Colin Powell’s son, Michael Powell was apppointed chairman of the FCC.

The fact that Colin Powell’s son is the chairman of the FCC means that the reporting on the war in Iraq was filtered through higher powers first – how can a report on military actions, when edited by the military, be unbiased?

Donald Rumsfeld was the Secretary of Defense during the Iraq War and was a key proponent in the declaration of war against Iraq. “Gay” is used to mean stupid, just like it usually is.

Metaphor of a cake mix, and how Silla will just jump into a song for the fun of it, not necessarily knowing what will turn out.