Hoping you get to hear this track before you do something that would change (Negatively) your life forever.

The decisions you make when you are young can always come back to haunt you in the future. For example, if you choose to skip school, at a young age (e.g high school), you may find it difficult to find a job that will help you be a successful person.

Derived from the popular phrase in Hip-Hop “Yes,Yes,ya’ll and we don’t stop” that was used by the rapper to pump up the crowd and/or engage with the audience.

Personifies the ghetto as a battlefield where the youngsters earn their respect after judgement from the elders, who have lived and survived the Trails and Tribulations of the streets.

The main goal is getting CREAM, whether it be collecting debt from the drugs sold, dealing with money launderers, or by placing bets that usually don’t end in a civil manner; one is always endangered to violence.

Rakim uses a hyperbole to describe show that very seldom will one hear gunshots in the neighbourhoods and also to show how often gun-related crimes occur in the streets of New York.

Dangerous Hang out spots could be The corners where they sell drugs. Cops usually disguise themselves as one of the natives to stop drug dealing in these areas.

Fugitives in New York are taken to the main prison Rikers Island near Queens

These are the components that were used as building blocks for, what later became know as, Rap Music

He loves having this girl over, or even just being in the same vicinity as her. Although he tries desperately to hide his feelings, he often fails, as she is able to read his mind like a psychic, knowing exactly how he feels.

He can’t get enough of her, therefore, he is pleading with his partner to stay a little longer for he has more in store for her.