Yasiin, from Brooklyn and being a socially conscious hip-hop artist takes notice in the increasing death rate and the falling average age of death

Brooklyn remains the city’s bloodiest borough — accounting for about 38% of last year’s murders, NYPD statistics released Friday show

In 2010, G.O.O.D. Music (which Kanye West founded) signed then Mos Def (now Yasiin Bey) to the label.

It should also be noted, Kanye did a “Don’t Like” remix as well on the G.O.O.D. Music album, Cruel Summer.

Hi-Tek and Talib Kweli, who are Reflection Eternal, a hip-hop group who released the album Train of Thought in 2000, which this album (2001) similarly resembles in sound and taste.

Elohim means God/Gods in both singular and plural in hebrew. It has been used in mythology as God/Gods appearing before people

Basic depiction of Elohim below

In the old testament, Elohim was known to scorch some things ( like Sodom and Gomorrah)

Oedipus was the mythical king of Thebes in Sophocles three-part tragedy written about Oedipus and his relatives. In the story, Oedipus ends up having sexual relations with his mom, literally making him a mother-fucking king.

In the Gospel of John there is a parable, or story, that Jesus performed the miracle of ressurecting Lazarus from the dead,

In the line;

Bring this mic back to life

A reference to the filmaker Wes Craven who made the movie Vampire in Brooklyn and other monster horror films.

There is a play on words between cravin' and Wes' last name craven, where one means in this context to crave blood and the other is reference to his last name.

Sickest is a colloquial often used by rappers to say that their rhymes,lines, etc. are “good” or “nice”

When Vakill says

White sheets

He’s referencing to paper, in which he writes the “sickest shit” upon. The comparison to

I write the sickest shit to hit white sheets

and

cross burning Caucasoid

is that a Caucasoid is a person of Caucasian features; a caucasian. A “cross burning Caucasoid” is a cross-burning Caucasian, an act affiliated with the notorious white-supremesist Ku Klux Klan group who are known for burning crosses. When he says “sickest shit” he is implying that the act of burning a cross is vile, and that he is “sicker” in the way rappers use it as a colloquial, better.

English Translation:

You are special
supernatural spectacular
You’re number one
She’s my mom
She is my grandmother
She is my aunt
You’re number one
African African African
You’re number one
African African African
You’re number one

The chorus and the song in general is very much in the same vein as many songs found in hip-hop that give props to the brown skinned ladies.

2Pac – Keep Ya Head Up:

Some say the blacker the berry, the sweeter the juice
I say the darker the flesh then the deeper the roots

Blackstar – Brown Skin Lady:

My brown lady, creates environments, for
Happy brown babies, I know it sounds crazy