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As DOOM explains in a 1999 interview in LSD Magazine #5, “free cuts” refers to his deceased brother, Subroc:
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.
Since when a nigga never really been too clean shaven MF DOOM – Hey!
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DOOM explains these lines in a 1999 interview in LSD Magazine #5:
[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?
Green Haven Correctional Facility is a maximum security prison in New York, and Lex Luthor is the the name of the supervillain from the Superman saga who is known for his blad head.
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Shout out to MF Grimm (Jet Jaguar was his Monsta Island Czar name). As well, the “sun, moon, and star” is another King Geedorah trinity, and possibly a reference to SpaceGodZilla, his late brother Subroc.
Actually probably a reference to the Nation of Gods and Earths, whose symbol includes the Sun, Moon and Star.
Looked into my baby's face, my boo was like ... "Well!
I know your types of clientele! Thoughts, needs"
As I held her firmly, yet gentle as the soft sea
She said, "The one with the horse weave? The pretty one?
Or crazy, had to touch the tattoo through the short sleeve?
Which one you want?" I'm like, "If there was comp?
Fuck around, a nigga like me probably run up in all three!" MF DOOM (Ft. Megalon) – Operation: Greenbacks
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DOOM talks about these lines in an interview with LSD Magazine about how his King Ghidra persona usually deals with trinities:
Even in the first verse, the three hoes, like which one you want, this, that or that ho. “I’ll probably run up in all three”, know what I’m sayin? I’m talking about TLC. My chick actually asked me, like I came back from Atlanta, and she was like, “yeah I know you out there, did you see them chicks, I know you wanted to fuck one of ‘em…”, so thats where I got the idea, like, “Oh yeah!” Some creative inspiration, so I threw them up there.
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At the School of Hard Knocks, no doubt.
This whole section is a call-back/rehash of the opening lines from “Ode to Road Rage” on Viktor Vaughn’s Venemous Villain. That section goes:
“Yoke him, leave him with his feet danglin'
Got his degree in stranglin' and street hagglin'
You could find him on the beat braggin'
Then discreetly draggin' emcees towards the meat wagon.”
On VV2, he is double majoring in stranglin' and street hagglin' in his gritty Viktor persona. Here, DOOM has gone on to a more advanced academic degree in making those stacks, which is fitting given his great success since VV2. Also note how one could get a PhD in discrete mathematics– DOOM is not concerned with being discrete about his math. His math is continuous.