If you’ve never heard Kanye rap before, get ready, because it’s going to give you the chills

Jay-Z would later borrow this line from Kanye, on Oh My God from his 2006 effort, Kingdom Come

However, Kanye’s line was itself influenced by the opening lines to Jay-Z’s album, Vol. 3:

Yeah, I know you just ripped the packaging off your CD. If you like me you reading the credits right now. If you in your car, I don’t care if it’s winter, I want you to put all your windows down."

So Jay-Z was borrowing from himself through Kanye.

The kids are going to go down the wrong path if they don’t have after-school programs. Kids who come from the Department of Children and Family Services are especially affected; Kanye assumes some of them suffer from dyslexia and cannot place words or numbers in the correct order (hence 12 Questions instead of rapper 50 Cent’s 21 Questions)

Vicious assonance punctuates Canibus' claim that he’s going to tear you a new one and poison you with his potent lyrics

As in “Second Round K.O.”, an otherwise brilliant verse is disrupted by a touch of homoeroticism. He’s going to destroy your ass, get you nude and make you hug things. Canibus needs to lay off of other men’s buttocks

Canibus' ego is out of control here, claiming to be the true savior of mankind. Screw a magazine which scores underground MCs record deals, Canibus is Jesus. (Prevailing scholarly consensus, by the way, is that the Shroud is a fraud)

The eyes of a hammerhead shark are positioned so that the shark can see everything at once. Like the shark, Canibus sees everything that weak MCs are doing

While not meaning more than it says, Canibus' flow in this segment of the verse is unstoppable

A pioneer for women in the hip-hop industry, Queen Latifah starred in the sitcom Living Single, which aired for five seasons from 1993 to 1998. In addition, Queen Latifah released her 14th single the year One Day It’ll All Make Sense dropped

Common’s way beyond all those wannabe rappers who can’t make the big dollars. Clearly, progressing through the alphabet makes you wealthier. Com, for example, has successfully moved from breakdancing to having hundred dollar bills. Next stop: DBA

Common’s tired of commercial rap, which he finds to be a pretentious sell-out. Rappers should stay true to where they’re from, and use their experiences and surroundings to make their music better

“Rhyming big words and not saying shit” is kind of ironic doing a track with Canibus.