At the 2017 Academy Awards, La La Land was erroneously announced as the winner for Best Picture even though Moonlight had actually won. JAY-Z later used the situation as inspiration for his song “Moonlight.”

Turkish chef Nusret Gökçe, better known as Salt Bae by the internet, gained popularity in February after a video surfaced of him preparing meat with his popular seasoning technique.

Skillz speaks to Lil Uzi Vert’s popular banger, “XO Tour Llif3,” which features a dark-yet-infectious hook about death and suicide.

This is a clever reference to Too $hort, the Bay Area rapper.

Talib and Yasiin Bey formed the duo Black Star in 1997. It’s no mistake that their name is shared with the Black Star Line, a shipping line started by Pan-Africanist Marcus Garvey. The line transported goods to fuel the African economy, and transported African Americans back to Africa to lead more prosperous lives.

Here, “super soakers” and “wet” are referring to guns and the bleeding one suffers after being shot.

Talib also references the 2001 movie Training Day. Denzel Washington’s character, Detective Alonzo Harris, tricks his partner into smoking PCP or getting “wet.” He reveals it to him by telling him, “Didn’t know you like to get wet.”

Chipper Jones is a retired professional baseball player. He’s famous, especially in Atlanta, where he played for the Braves his entire career. Chipper played third base, which is in a corner of the baseball diamond.

Interestingly, Goodie Mob, also from Atlanta, based their name on this saying. The Good Die Mostly Over Bullshit.

Dealing cocaine is looked down upon more harshly than other drugs. It also comes with harsher sentencing.

This is also a play on Caine, the main character from the classic movie, Menace II Society.

Dealing cocaine will have you so deep in the game, it can be hard to escape it.

Here Cyhi refers to the numerous allegations of Bill Cosby raping and sexually assaulting women (many of them being White). Most of his alleged crimes occurred between 1960 and the early 2000s, but many of his victims didn’t come out until 2014.