Guns are used to kill. Many people hide their guns to avoid detection from law enforcement, and to get the drop on rival gang members. Illegal guns often pass through many hands being cheaper than a legally bought gun.

The maddest thug.

chicken/ and a fine girl

Nas is saying be a leader first don’t follow, and how people in church act like they been hit with the Holy Spirit just for attention and other church members follow along and start fainting everywhere

Slave mentality/ mental prison see Nas' “The World Is Yours”

He is saying the streets of his city are just as violent as the Viet Nam war

I Know you like to thank your ishhhhh don’t stank but lean a little closer see roses really smell like poo pooo

If you listen to the song you hear a man jumping off a building committing suicide. This is a reference to the Great Depression in which broke stock brokers jumped off of buildings after they lost everything

magazines hold bullets and pop up magazines that display images when you turn the page

Lupe’s label, First and Fifteenth, contains many of his friends in the rap game. The label’s name comes from the two most important dates in the hood: the first and fifteenth days of the month, when the welfare and other governmental checks are sent out.

six pack from his ab work out, and six pack of beer that why he is sunken(drunk)