Containers are made to keep food fresh. His rhymes are like a container, keeping him fresh all day!

Em was a big comic book fan growing up and still collects them.

The Batman comics spawned a 1960s TV show that commonly used the phrase “To the Batmobile, let’s go!”

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BmjFni_WLrA

Em eventually put a twist on this and later in his career started a song with “to the Rapmobile, let’s go!”

Chuck D is expressing that the samples you hear on the beat don’t belong to their owners anymore; very much thanks to Public Enemy’s production team The Bomb Squad.

imax is a motion picture film format in cinemas all across the world. They usually project the films in 3D. The brick hitting your face while getting arrested is much more realer and deeper than just sitting behind an imax screen.

Until after the situation was done, the bullies find god. He’s been there the whole time, they shouldn’t have been doing the things they done!

Jack Brown just rolls off his tongue! It’s a decent alias, but Willie Lee’s been in trouble with the feds before—they recognize him despite his name change.

“Dirty Hack” is another way of saying “Dirty Fuck” (which is in itself a colloquial way of saying “Dirty Motherfucker”). When this record was made, the censors would never have permitted the latter. So “Dirty Hack” was about all he could get away with.

There is also a story about Johnny Cash’s talk with a guy named John Jack Brown; the singer told him that, since he worked on trains, which Johnny Cash loved, he would put him in one of his songs.

Double Edge: Capable of being interpreted in two usually contradictory ways.

He flies in on a plane, usually a luxury. But during a red eye (An overnight flight) so he’s going to be very tired next morning. The way he lives his life affects him both negatively and positively.