The second verse represents how they see their present life and what they think their future holds. Their ability to cope and will to live is diminishing, slowly losing who they ‘are’ and their ability to dream for something better, since the abuses been going on for a while now. They feel the joy of living has fallen away from them.

The first verse is how the victim feels. Suicidal and isolated, feeling alone and withdrawn from others.

That song sample Lonnie Liston Smith’s A Garden Of Peace which is also sampled in Jay-Z’s (also known as HOV or Hova) first single, Dead Presidents.

Joell Ortiz spoke of his grandmother’s death in Slaughterhouse’s recent single Goodbye

You got to be mad stupid to rob your own label. Sticky don’t want to gain slow profits, he’ll hold Russell Simmons, Def Jam’s boss for ransom.

Russell Simmons is the third richest figure in hip hop, having a net-worth estimate of $340 million.

Stick told O.D.B. of his plan to take over the stage to promote Onyx’s new album at evening Grammys was going to take place. Ol’ Dirty stole his idea and did it without him.

O.D.B. stormed on Grammy’s stage, interrupts Wyclef and Erykah Badu that were presenting the award for song of the year, after Wu-Tang lost the album of the year in 1998. The album in question was Wu-Tang Forever. They lost to Puff Daddy’s No Way Out.

[ODB]
Wu-Tang is for the children!

See-saw

Is it really ghetto though ?

Phillies is a brand of American-made cigars. Phillies blunts are inexpensive cigars with a tough wrapper, it is often emptied and re-rolled with other smoking mixtures, the most common being marijuana.

With its variety of flavors, a new market for blunt wraps, a prepared tobacco leaf paper similar to rolling papers, were introduced.

L'intro, et probablement l'ensemble de la chanson, sample la chanson de Michael Jackson – Give it to me ou l'une de ses dérivées