Dre criticizes those who would scold drug dealers, hustlers, etc., without offering an alternative way to make a living for people in their situation because the most important thing for the young man is to live and prosper, survive and thrive. Man, that sounds boring when we say it.

The child’s mother is scolding him, saying he is a sinning but she is not putting money in his pocket or paying for his education or helping him achieve any status in life so she is the original sin for bringing him into a world with nothing to offer so the only thing he is left with is selling so how can she judge him.

Basically, if you can’t offer a viable alternative to hustling—don’t judge the lifestyle. The judgement aspect makes it a sin.

A clever reversal by Andre—his wishes sound modest at first, but almost immediately graduate into super-rich dreams. It can also show how he has ascended in life, starting off by just wanting shelter, then a nicer house, then the lavishness of fancy cars and horses.

He says “unfortunately, but of course” before bringing up the guns (referred to as torches) to show that he would rather not have to deal with these things, but knows that that’s the way the world is.

He then goes on to say that the reason the world is like that (and the reasons these people he refers to have resorted to a life of crime) is the “tutors who did a lousy job”, which is a reference to the poor education system. It’s “unfortunate” because if these “intruders” had received a good education they may have ended up in a position where they wouldn’t have to rob and steal. But, “of course”, this is the world we live in, and so Dre recognises that he needs to protect him self from the evils of the world (the next line).

There are 3 possible interpretations to this line:

Dre could referring to the lines just before these talking about wines, where he mentions that we grab the finest wines and we’re quick to pay for fancier (and thus, more expensive) wine under the assumption that it will be better (but without knowing for sure since you aren’t a sommelier). Hell and He’ll is just a play on word meaning that the black man feels 3000 times cooler to be drinking the fancy wine!

He could also be suggesting he’s going to hell and when he does it will be 3000 degrees ‘cooler’. Now the reference here is that on his smash hit Hey Ya his name was Andre “Ice Cold” 3000, thus hell becomes ‘cooler’ (plus, we all know he is a very cool person)…and I think we all understand the 3000 reference.

Or, he could be referring to the old saying about hell freezing over, “this could only be real when hell freezes over”.