In mathematics everything that is correct is just plain and simply correct. Everything can be proven right or wrong and there’s is nothing in between those two. Meaning that everything Del spits is factual.

Crossover musician Prince was one of the biggest funk artists the music industry has had, but compared to other funk musicians like George Clinton, Bootsy Collins, James Brown and Sly Stone his stuff is barely funk, which Del also calls him out for.

Paisley Park is a record label founded by Prince which released some of his and his artists' music from 1985 to and including 1993, the label came into existence after all the success Prince gained from the movie, album and song all titled Purple Rain.

The rhymes Del spits are the lyrical equivalent of the creation of something beautiful like a rainbow.

A little reminiscent of Kanye West’s “No Church in the Wild”, but B.o.B changes it to relate to the meanings of words: A song without words can’t bring a message to the listener. What if there actually are words but nobody notices them, do they even have a purpose in that case, do they even exist in the eyes of anyone aside from the creator of the piece?

Cedar Walton is a jazz pianist who has released over 100 albums since the 50’s, including albums with jazz heavy-hitters John Coltrane and Donald Byrd.

Herbie Hancock is well-known funk and jazz keyboardist who has worked a lot with Miles Davis. In the hip-hop community he is best known for his single “Rockit Man” and the Head Hunters album.

Songs by Hancock Lord Quas has sampled include “Gentle Thoughts” for “Bartender Say”. “Training Day” for “Maingirl”, “Suite Revenge” for the remix to “Definition of Ill”, and “The Egg” for this song.
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Steve Cole is a fairly newer tenor saxophonist, having released his first album Stay Awhile in 1998. In his short career he has managed to release 6 studio albums in a span of 10 years and also get a #1 hit single with “Got It Goin' On” in 2005, which is quite an impressive achievement for a jazz artist in this day and age.

In an interview with Complex Raekwon elaborated on “Meth vs. Chef” and how he actually thinks Method Man won the “battle”:

I feel [Method Man] won still though because his flow was just so, ‘Who lit that shit it was I, the chinky eye…’ I was just going at him with the machine gun, ‘I’m goin’ all out kid no turn backs…’ So to this day we still laugh about it and it’s still a mystery to us who really won, but in my eyes I’ll give it to him.

In an interview with Complex Raekwon explained how and who exactly had the idea of the praise “C.R.E.A.M.”:

Meth came up with the hook but our dude named Raider Ruckus, this was like Meth’s homeboy back then, like they was real close, he came up with the phrase ‘cash rules everything around me.’ So when he showed Meth what it was and was like, ‘Cash rules everything around me,’ Meth was like, ‘Word, you right!’ And turned it into a movie, and I came in later that day and heard it and co-signed it.

Del uses some amazing wordplay on how the kids go and hit the back of the bus and nowadays want to “hit the back” (I.E. oral sex). The oddness of the kids going to the back of the bus happily refers to the infamous Rosa Parks incident. In which Rosa Parks refused to go to the “black part” of the bus and ended up in jail