He can detect others who are like him both in rapping skill and villainous personalities. DOOM is a natural when it comes to writing rhymes because of his killer instinct.

In this way I think he’s saying his skill in spitting fuckin RAW lyrics is just as badass and instinctive as his need to spike the punch (putting alcohol in the punch to get everyone drunk). And in this way he’s saying he has a purpose to get everyone “drunk” off his lyrics.

He seems to be fond of times past, when people still taped music off the radio to play in their boomboxes, and used terms like apeshit

DOOM literalizes a metaphor — “putting himself in your shoes” means he’s trying to take your perspective on things, see things from your angle — but in this case he’s literally putting himself in your shoes, and running off with your woman.

In New York City “run that” means give it up, as in a robbery. “Run ya kicks” means give up your kicks, or sneakers. Doom is putting himself in your shoes by force.

It appears that he is a stingy businessman.

“Capiche” means “understand”. The correct spelling in Italian is capisce, from the verb capire (“to understand”). This particular form means “you understand” (formal), and of course it would be used in a question: Capisce? — “Do you understand?”

Also this directly contradicts him giving away dubs for free to his friends as mentioned in the first verse. This sort of contradiction keeps the listener guessing and is typical of DOOM.

Money — Yet another food/money metaphor in a rap song — perhaps this originates from the fact that many rappers come from poor backgrounds and needed to make money primarily to feed themselves

And he’s not insecure

Rapper’s used to wear relaxed clothing and weren’t concerned about their appearance, now they seek out rare expensive clothing and are into fashion

They came back even more focused, replacing alcoholic beverages with soda

Sharecropping is the practice of loaning farmland to someone and splitting the profits made off the product. Madlib makes the beat, gives it to Doom to rhyme over, and they split the profits of the album

The line has racial connotations as well — sharecroppers were predominantly black, and the arrangement was almost always exploitative, as black farmers would work the land and then give almost all the proceeds to absentee white landlords. The line is a possible shot at the music industry

The leaking caused them to put the album on hold for a year but they came back sharp

This references the same thing as an earlier line, that the album was released to the internet without authorization before it was finished, and even before any details about the album were publicly released

He puts a positive spin on this, noting that it means fans (his hyper fan-base) were extremely eager to hear it just based on the artists involved