A one-man Def Jam Semi Hendrix (Ft. 4rAx, Coast Contra & Ras Kass) – Breakfast at Banksy's
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These lines are reminiscent of the Lupe Fiasco song “Super Lupe Rap (SLR)”, in which Lupe describes himself as alterations of hip-hop staples, including calling himself a “one [man] Slaughterhouse.”
Slaughterhouse is a rap group consisting of four rappers: Royce da 5'9, Crooked I, Joe Budden, and Joell Ortiz. Def Jam is a well-established hip-hop record label. Ras Kass has the power of many concentrated into one.
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The system we live in divides us. One such division is race.
The clever thing is the use of “subdivisions,” especially given where Red Pill is from. ‘White flight’ has devastated the city of Detroit perhaps more than any other city in America. It is now the blackest city in America, and thus epitomizes the effects of white flight. The system encourages geographic divisions, segregation, if you will, by pushing blacks into cities and whites into suburbs.
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Capitalism is an economic system practiced by the overwhelming majority of the modern world that is characterized by private ownership of the means of production, wage labor, and for-profit goals of businesses.
The trade of prostitution is a mirror of this system, where the pimps (capitalists) own the means of production, the capital in the form of transportation and network, while the prostitutes themselves are paid a wage for their labor.
Prostitution is viewed widely unfavorably by the majority of Americans, so Ras uses a bit of shock value in order to bring attention to the evils of capitalism: a system built on inequality and exploitation.
This may also be a reference to “Who Are the Pimps?” by Boogie Down Productions: