Kanye West was raised up in Chicago and in a later album, Graduation even dedicates a song to Chi-town

A beer and a whiskey shot is called a boilermaker

Venice Beach is where Evidence was raised by his mother

Jana Taylor (Miss Taylor) was Evidence’s mother, who raised Evidence on Venice Beach

The Outro explains the orgin of the saying Its raining “Cats and Dogs.”

You need an unbrella when its raining cats and dogs, which is just a saying for raining hard.

Also, Evidence’s sophomore album was entitled, Cats & Dogs, which could have came up possibly from this line

Elzhi is a poet while other people are just pathetic

He is not Buket, so he wouldn’t get such a tattoo…From this song it looks like both EV and Cyrus are tagging under ‘Buket’ name. It also explains the first line of the song (“About to tell you who I ARE”)

This part is just The Alchemist (Ev’s so called Step Brother) and mostly DJ Babu (of Dilated Peoples) scratching up a bunch of songs that say the word
“Evidence,” including:

• Drive Slow by Kanye West
• It Gets No Rougher by LL Cool J
• The saga begins by Rakim
• Third Degree by Dilated Peoples
• The Real Weight by No I.D.
• Pack Up (Remix) by Lyrics Born
• Dope man by Jay-Z
• Say it Twice by Defari
• It’s Only Right by Planet Asia
• Grin & Bear It by LMNO
• Another Sound Mission by Dilated Peoples

Evidence calling his mom’s voice as beautiful as Whitney Houston (before on drugs)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H9nPf7w7pDI