If you’re convicted of three felonies (or other serious criminal offenses) – You are gonna sit in the can for a damn long time.

Snoop Dogg is (was?) a member of the Rollin' 20 Crips along with many of his friends and family (Nate Dogg, Daz Dillinger, etc.) He’s saying the new fame is strange to him since he used to shoot people and sell drugs to survive.

Another shout to Killa Black, Havoc’s brother, who was imprisoned at the time of this album’s release.

Killa’s advice was to calm down and do nothing for now. It’s better to pretend like nothing is wrong, so nobody suspects you when you do kill them. Even so, Prodigy doesn’t like the idea of pretending to do nothing while this man sent his friend to jail.

There’s also the irony that everybody is acting normal (even Prodigy, and the snitch) even though a lot of people know the plan to kill him.

Game is talking about a black youth in the hood who has no direction in his life and no ray of hope. So, to make money and survive, he goes out and buys a Smith & Wesson.

Aside from the actual meaning of “Grave shift”, death is prominent in these hours.

Dr. Dre infamously attacked Dee Barnes for interviewing Ice Cube during the N.W.A/Ice Cube feud.

Members of N.W.A poignantly defended Dre’s actions, saying “bitch deserved it” and “bitch had it coming”

The first two installments of the “Choppers” series were called “Midwest Choppers” and “Midwest Choppers II”, which only featured (as you can guess) rappers from the Midwest. Now, since there’s rappers from all around the world, it’s called Worldwide Choppers.

Tech N9ne originated in Kansas City which is in the midwest so that’s where they started.

The Chopper style originated in the Midwest, and made popular by a Midwestern group known as the Bone Thugs (Krayzie Bone, Bizzie Bone, and Layzie Bone).