On the album, the feature by Del tha Funkee Homosapien is credited as Deltron 3030, a trio the rapper is in. The other two members from Deltron 3030 don’t make any (credited) appearances on the song either.

Common Sense doesn’t consider the shoot-out an actual fight, just some stupid stuff “gangsters”. Instead, a fight (with words) with his love does crush his spirit.

“I ain’t a shooter I just punch a lot” is a play on the infamous Big Punisher line “I ain’t a player I just fuck/crush a lot” from his “Still Not a Player” classic. – Basically, Common isn’t the type to kill somebody, even though he loves a rough fight.

Light travels through your eye to your mind. Even when it is incredibly dark there will always be a little bit of light reaching your eye by reflecting of things. Just like, the following story is always on Common’s mind.

Common definitely isn’t. While the mafioso rap scene was big on the ast Coast (think Nas, AZ, Wu-Tang Clan, etc) Common rose to the top with his conscious lyrics among the likes of Talib Kweli, Yasiin Bey and Black Thought.

After he gave false alarm numerous times, nobody paid attention to the shepherd-boy anymore, allowing the wolf to eat the whole flock of sheep. When translated from Greek to English the moral of the story states that this is how liars are rewarded: even if they tell the truth, no one believes them.

The English idiom “to cry wolf,” meaning to give false alarm, derives from this tale.