Black music has always come from making the most out of the worst possible circumstances.

Possibly talking about dildofucking an underage girl with a flash drive (which you put in a USB port). Yikes.

He could also be referring to USB standing for universal serial bus (…driver). So he could be saying he’ll put himself inside them. Great.

The whole concept of Jhelli Beam is somewhat a commentary of what people talk about in music and other outlets of social issues. Conscious hip-hop was a huge movement in the early-to-mid-‘90s, but near the new millennium it just kinda died out. Rap became an industry that was all about who could make the catchiest songs, which was exactly what conscious rap was trying to prevent, hence it failing us. Some even went so far as to say hip-hop was dead as a genre. Busdriver is too apathetic to try and resurrect the genre (which isn’t really a bad thing; in this album you get the idea that it’s beyond saving), but he’s about to spit some wisdom on society, which you could even see as just sarcastic hip-hop.

Since the release of Jhelli Bean, conscious hip-hop has seen somewhat of a revival in the Pro Era movement, so Busdriver’s dreams aren’t dead just yet.

Making fun of some people’s tendencies to generalize people based on their political stances. Busdriver gets labeled as a liberal sometimes because of the stuff he’s always saying about society and the government, which considered pretty leftist. Busdriver’s in his own area though, he’s more left-center, like the part of the outfield in baseball.

Black people are too NAACP or N.W.A on general principle (GP) in their approach to certain issues in his opinion. Basically, sometimes when black people want to address racial issues, they’re just being racist themselves.

Doctors are telling him to ease off the drinking. When you abuse alcohol you face elevated liver enzymes. This is a play on “being a quitter;” he doesn’t want to quit on his art, but he doesn’t want to quit things that are bringing him down either.

In the video for “Take Dis,” Gunplay gets in a fight with a girl who’s supposed to be one of his hoes, and he ends up taking her outside and beating her. But if you notice, it’s a white girl and overall she seems out of place. “White girl” is slang for cocaine, and he’s abusing her.

Tech was married and had 2 kids (who make an appearance on The Rain) with his wife, but he has admitted to having some problems with controlling himself around women and indulged himself in it, and he and his wife got separated because she got tired of him messing around with other women.

He’s saying settling for something else is for those who don’t have the heart, but it could also be a shoutout to British rapper Plan B, who often talks about “average kids” himself.

He’ll be dishonest with a girl and tell her she’s special to him, but he’s just saying that. He got hundreds of bitches.