Twista isn’t afraid of mean people or spirits ,(hard alcohol). He has been around a while and can handle both. Methamphetamine is a drug that is present in crystal meth and speed. He is playing on the word “dope” which refers to drugs, but is also slang for cool or good.

Twista is known for his fast and skillful rapping, as if his lyrics are on methamphetamine:

Jakk compares the streets to an educational system; he’s saying his father grew up on the streets of Brooklyn, and the knife wounds his father had were mnemonic for that kind of learning.

A mnemonic is any learning technique that aids information retention. Jakk’s father receiving knife wounds led to him being street smart, as opposed to book smart, which is what is regularly associated with being a scholar, hence him being a street scholar instead.

Despite Chicago’s strict gun laws, the state of Illinois’s gun laws allow for any person to buy guns however they please with only one transaction on record, resulting in mass numbers of guns being illegally sold to gangbangers.

While one would normally expect crimes to be committed at night, in Chicago shootings happen even in broad daylight—despite the light, the events of the day put a dark cloud and moody atmosphere over the city.

Martina Topley does not portray as Noodle but as herself. A good rule of thumb is when Damon Albarn wants a female singer to portray Noodle, he uses a vocalist with a Japanese accent because of Noodle’s origin.