A halfway house is a place where addicts, drunks, abusers may be sent after spending time in prison, before they are completely reinstated into society. It allows them more supervision and helps them to stay clean on the outside.

Perhaps Joe’s father will somehow be released from prison, and stay at a halfway house. It’s not the same as parole where he is free to live his life and only meet with his P.O. occasionally.

But anything out of prison is a step up right?

Refer to the next lines.

Also, Halfway House is one of Joe’s albums. It was released in 2008 and had the song named Slaughterhouse which lead to the the forming of the group Slaughterhouse.

Royce is all about talking about his dick, check these bars from Loud Noises

“Lyrically I’m a cocaine Altoid
Ability so brain it’s a no brain bow boy (fresh)
Physically. I’m literally a cocaine cowboy, wait-wait
Did I just go almost four bars without talking about my big dick?”

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There is a double meaning to each part of this line. In Royce’s eye, its a competition and he is trying to prove he’s better than you.

“we can match whips”

1. You and Royce can compare vehicles (whips), he’ll run your ass over every time

2. A man’s dick could also be referred to as his “whip”. Royce has a bigger dick than you.

“battle rap, dick”

1. A battle rap is where 2 people spit a freestyle about the person they are competing against, and then the crowd determines a winner by applause. Royce writes better than you. In this meaning, he is just referring to you as a dick.
2. This could also be worded as “battle wrap dick”.
   Who is wrapping their dick up more (going through more condoms). Royce gets more pussy than you.

Also his verse on Slaughterhouse – Beamer, Benz, or Bentley was mainly him rapping about his dick.

Tar pits are where natural asphalt leaks up to the surface of the ground and creates natural tar/asphalt.

He speaks of real things that happened to him in the past. He is able to put real emotions he was feeling into each bar he writes, which are usually about his struggles, thus making them darker than tar pits (darker than black).

You have to protect yourselves. Everyday people were dying over shoes (kicks/low tops), music (bass), and drugs (coke rocks).

A play on “kicks” and “bass” as also being types of drums.

How bad is our nation and society as a whole that abandoned children have to resort to sellin' drugs, robbin' stores, or killin' people to survive.

He’s “striking a scene” (from Julius' verse) with his whole verse, similar to how a camera-man would take a picture for all to see. His pictures are produced through words.

A relay race is where there are several runners who each are responsible for 1 leg of the race. Each runner must have the baton passed to them before they can start their portion of the race.

Iceman could be referring to the baton as a blunt being passed around.

He could also be referring to each of the girls giving him a blowjob.

Neil Armstrong was the first man to fly to, land on, and walk on the moon.

Similar to Neil, Julius is “arm strong”, but his arms have more steel on em

A reference to Martin Luther King Jr.’s I Have A Dream Speech.

MLK was shot on his balcony.

Tupac, Jam Master Jay, and John F. Kennedy were also “shot down”

This metaphor is comparing his father to Keith Richards‘ group, The Rolling Stones.

Papa was a rolling stone, meaning he left their family.

Danica Patrick is a female driver for NASCAR, which is typically considered as a male-only sport.

She is the most successful female driver to ever be in the sport.

“never slowing down your drive” refers to racing, and also to his mother never losing her motivation to raise the best kids she could and keep them out of trouble