To walk around with a bigger gun than the police in order to protect yourself from the racist police officers. Just like an arms race, in a sense.

In a much deeper analysis, one could identify a freudian sexual reference, where police are drawn to law enforcement to make up for a lack of sexual prowess, where a free man walks confident of his own.

‘Likkle’ is Jamaican patois for ‘little’.

Overseers and likewise officers often have the right to stop people in suspicion of wrongdoings. Crooked cops are notorious for abusing this right.

When you repeat the word “overseer” over and over again fast it will start to sound like “officer”, comparing police officers and slave overseers.

This is technically a pseudoetymology as the two words come from completely different language families:

The English word “office” comes from the Latin “opus”, meaning “work”; the root of the English word “over” is the Germanic “über”, meaning “above” (the Latin word for “above” is “super”).

As clever wordplay though, it effectively illustrates KRS' comparison between slavedrivers and the racist police force.

Etymologically speaking, it is not at all uncommon for a word or phrase to derive from an alternate pronunciation of another word. Examples abound in the English language, but one of my favorites is the name “Shakespeare,” which may be an Anglicized pronunciation of the name “Jacques-Pierre.” (Just as in the song above, if you repeat these words very quickly, you can almost feel the pronunciation change.)

It’s also not entirely unbelievable that the word “overseer” would have historically been used in English to denote that which is associated with the word “officer” today.

But as the original annotator made note of, it’s simply not the case that the word “officer” was derived from “overseer.”

The Anglo-Norman word “officer” has been in use in English since the late 14th century, represented in Middle English by any of a dozen variations in spelling: offessere, offesour, officiere. This likely came to England in 1044 AD with the Normans of modern-day France, whose language was heavily rooted in Latin. The meaning then, as now, referes to someone who holds a particular office (according to the OED).

The word “overseer,” on the other hand, whose roots are decidedly Indo-European , came into use around the same time as “officer,” and referred to someone who served as a superintendant or manager of a labor force. Both the prefix over- and the root see have cognates in other Germanic languages, including German, Dutch, and Icelandic.

Although we can easily discern a possible semantic overlap in these two words, each has its own unique history in the English language, and neither was derived from the other.

It is interesting to note, though, that the word “sheriff” was, in fact, formed through a change in pronunciation from the original word, scirgerefa, or “Shire Reeve.”

In defense of KRS, the word “sheriff” is much harder to work into a rap than the word “officer.” Despite his less-than-successful foray into historical linguistic analysis, KRS remains a master of contemporary English, and for that, I forgive him!

1. The reason his gun has had full ammo for a long time is because he dosent waste bullets on people who aren’t worth his time to get shot

2. He dosent “waste” (kill, shoot) “shit” (shitty people, those not worth his time)

People say that NY lost it’s notoriety so MIMS is gonna bring it back. When he says this line, a short clip of the classic NY hip-hop song “Shook Ones II” is played, in reference to him bringing back NY style rap.

L gives props to both the East and West Coasts: New York being hip hop’s birthplace holds the game’s foundation, while the L.A. holds some of the realest Gs.

Ironically enough, the song New York, New York dropped only 4 days before this track, which resulted in with the track L.A., L.A., a West Coast diss that like this song features Prodigy.

This is the first ever rap about the Illuminati.

The Illuminati is a mysterious secret society founded in the 1700s that set out to rule the world. Their seal is thought to be the all-seeing eye that appears on the US $1 bill.

This line is used on the hook for Prodigy’s H.N.I.C 2 track “Illuminati”, and is also sampled on Jay-Z’s 1996 classic “D'Evils.”

its either:
1- put the weed in the bag
2- put the money in the bag