A dog’s fight describes an aerial conflict where >2 fighter planes are involved, the goal is to destroy the other fighter planes, usually to clear a way for bombers. The first were in WW1.

Kendrick’s describing that making it in the rap game is the fight of his life.

Kendrick wants you to chill out to this track, relax and take it in.

What’s behind the other door, oh. No more silence (No more silence) Don’t kill this thing we got called love. Just searching for the perfect shot

Is a metaphor which describes the idiom “Keep knocking on the door”. Kendrick keeps knocking on raps door, trying to get his foot in but in the past all hes heard is silence. Now with his name change and new EP, he feels there’s no more silence. People are starting to take notice. He’s just searching for the perfect chance to take his shot and grasp his dream with two hands.

Reference to The Amityville Horror Story. A horror story about a family moving into a new place and being paranoid about a haunted house.

Kendrick wants people to be going crazy for his music.

Nice play on words here.

Dodger’s killing tracks, his verses are essentially the murder weapon.

As stated, his verses are Eulogies. Which is a speech in praise of a person, usually done at funerals. The word itself is also classical Greek meaning; “Good words”.

In essence, Dodger’s merking every track with his amazing raps.

Double entendre;

• Implying the stupidity of some statements people make.

  The fuck you smoking man? That was the stupidest thing I ever heard!

“Potent” plays on the fact you can have weed with high levels of THC and others with less, the amount controlling the effectiveness.

• A shot at other rappers in the game who think they’re on his level. It’s well documented that many musicians smoke weed when making music. Kanye’s saying whatever they’re smoking isn’t working, their music isn’t as powerful or effective as his — it’s whack!

Joe is referring to both himself and everyone in general. He’s saying that everyone is immature at times and that age is really just a number.

He’s implied in previous songs he’s not fully matured yet. Referring to the same drug problems he had when he was younger.

Furthermore he has stated in numerous interviews his battle with drugs, detailing them here for MTV way back in 03'.

“I’m an addict, so [I did] drugs, period,” rapper Joe Budden said a couple of weeks ago in New York, breaking down what kinds of drugs he used to indulge in. “I never did coke, never did heroin, but I did [do] angel dust, weed and pills. Anything you say, I did it.”

Get anxious because Em’s here. He’s the weirdo and freak you don’t want to be next too.

Em uses a simple but effective eye/look play on words to describe opiate/opiod or pill high. Remember Em had an addiction to sleeping pills.

This was also a line in Love the Way You Lie. It refers to the following line were he mentions that tracks title.

Money makes the world go round — The early bird refers to birds in the morning who catches worms from the grass, only the birds there first get a worm. The dumb birds? Well they get nothing, they lose.

Double entendre;

1. If you snitch and tell the cops about his drugs Banks will break your ribs.

2. Commonly ribs come in pork.