Grimm is your homie, but why James Brown?

[Laughs] Cause that was a crazy motherfucker! You know how people were saying he was on the leak or whatever, you have to be a crazy motherfucker to be doing that and the music, so if anyone could understand me, it would be him. [laughs] He was a crazy motherfucker.

As he explains in this interview, goes back to his deceased brother:

LSD — That actually ties in with the next line I was going to ask about, “I used to get free cuts.” That goes back to you and your brother, right? You would give haircuts and DJ?

MF — Yeah, Sub was the master, he had the ill technique with clippers, yo. The illest barber in the whole motherfucking world. Anyone would tell you that. I remember he did Clark Kent, from Superman. He put the Superman symbol on the back, and had “Clark” on one side, the illest letter style, yo. It looked like it was drawn on there. And the “Kent” on the other side. I had a picture of it, but I dont know where that shit is at. [Proudly] But that nigga Sub was the nastiest with the clippers, yo.

money

Geenbacks were a type of money issues during the civil war.

Explains the line in this interview:

[laughs] Another funny line. A true line, though. I had a partner, he got bagged and shit, so that’s like my shoutout to him, my partner Luthor and shit. He should be coming home soon, like 2003, he caught mad time. Some ill shit. And I was sayin', cause he’s a real clean-cut brother and shit, he’d give me ill haircuts. Like a ill barber nigga, but then he got bagged, and since then I aint really getting my shit cut. So when a nigga come home… Nahmean?

BTW:
– Green Haven Correctional Facility is a maximum security prison in New York
– Lex Luthor is the the name of the supervillain from the Superman saga

A term from baseball, used when two batters score a home run one immediately after the other. Analogous to this, Tommy Gunn and DOOM practice the rhyming equivalent of these back to backs.

He rhymes for real gangsters that carry guns.

His lungs black from smoking, but luckily they still function well enough to spit a couple o' rhymes.

In Star Wars, Obi Wan Kenobi was killed by Darth Vader with a body-splitting blow.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VaMoK4qbG38 Skip to 2:39 for the moment suprême.

NOTE

This is most definately NOT a reference to the Phantom Mance. That movie came out in 2001, whereas this album was released in 1999. The chance of MF Grimm having read the script at that time is pretty slim.

Godzilla themed rap group in which DOOM was King Ghidorah

For doing his his thing, he deserves a crown on every head namsayin'.