Like many other 90’s rappers, Raekwon was a drug dealer before the Wu became popular

Most black people aren’t expected to make it in life, for many reasons: political, economic, and justice system bias. In fact, 1 in 3 Black men are or have been in some phase of the correctional system. Ryan Leslie has beat the odds by achieving success.

Normally this line would be really disturbing (as in having a minivan full of kids with a gun in it) but he simply means a glock 9 with 12 bullets in it

Q is as fly as an Unidentified Flying Object
(1 of 2 alien references in this verse)

Q’s style is “out of this world like an alien from a Sci Fi flick

Here, Q is referring to the Jewish “Star of David”

Interesting word play here: A Boosie fade (named after now incarcerated rapper Lil Boosie is bald at the sides but thick at the top. Q isn’t like Boosie, in the fact that he can’t be faded (meaning nobody can kill or fuck with him, in the rap sense of the word)

Everyone knows Q smokes, including his parole officer, but it’s not like that nigga gon' do nuthin'
Everybody knows because he talks about it in literally all of his songs, and his Parole officer knows because he’s been put on probation for it

His mouth was horribly disfigured in a car accident the other night

Nappy spit this intro through the wire, man.

Save your stupid rhyming for the song you fucking show off