Vic acknowledges the common stereotypes associated with black males in Chicago in that they are expected to have a short life, end up in jail or have fathers who left them. He wants to change this view and refuses to be looked at in the same way.

By saying “enough of that jazz,” Vic is referencing Chicago’s famous jazz scene. Going along with theme of rejecting stereotypes, he closes this part of the verse with a reference to another typical thing associated with Chicago.

Vic has had some pretty serious close-calls in his life. He talks more about a near death experience in his song “That Nigga.”

And we come to the main topic in the song. The reason for all the pain & trauma caused comes down to the simple sin of greed: the overwhelming desire to possess as much of anything with value and only having the intention of keeping it to yourself.

With the level of power we’re talking about, this is a strong reference to the lower classes of society & instead of feeling some sense of personal compassion there’s a sense of contempt, causing a dis-attachment from everyone and telling them to claim responsibility for their actions & lives.

This speaks about the recent change ever since the Vietnam War to actually see live war and bombings on television which has often been the main component in anti-war protests but around this time it’s almost an inference to how desensitized everyone is to the matter & passing a bombing of another country off as a simple foreign affair that we do for the greater good.

The simple yet dangerous & effective use of power, showing just how easy it is for someone within an already corrupt structure of work can quickly determine a group of people’s fate.

A known way of anyone discarding bodies, especially in a mafioso-sense has been simply dumping them in the ocean, Rocky willing to take those steps & inferring that the body will likely only be found washing along the seashore. When Rocky says, “find ‘em with the seasshells,” is also a play on the tongue twister,

Seashells, seashells, down by the seashore.

Meaning, the bodies will be washed up along with the seashells.

Also note the wordplay here with Dump'em as he referred to the act of taking a shit (dump) in the previous line.

He’s making a reference to his growth in fame around the city ever since the debut of his mixtape 10 Day, hence Mr. Chance Bennett is steadily getting known as Mr. Famous around his city.

This combines with the previously mentioned conscious to give a sense of impulse, the constant desire or tendency to act a certain way & give a complete personality to Mr. Self Destruct as the evil that not just this song or album but people in general carry.

George Clinton is one of the greatest influences to funk-related music, earning his reputation as a lead solo artist and also as the main mind behind the legendary psychedelic bands Parliament and Funkadelic which through the years have influenced a massive number of west coast hip-hop artists including Dr. Dre, Snoop Dogg, Ice Cube, and apparently Xzibit as well. This line also happens to be a play on the 1975 album from Parliament entitled Mothership Connection

Most of psychedelic mushrooms' popularity spread like wildfire during the 1960’s and 1970’s, a time where most of George Clinton’s music thrived from both previously mentioned bands. It was believed that most of his music made during the time was under the influence of a number of drugs, mushrooms not surprisingly being one of the suspected few and Xzibit being a believer of it.