A reference to the “invisible hand” of the marketplace. It also serves as a reference to dangerous urban areas, where anybody could be holding a gun or drugs

Read this Congressional report, titled “The FBI’s Covert Action Program to Destroy the Black Panther Party,” to find out what happens to enemies of the state, particularly black ones

A dark, but rather accurate, take on human endeavor — all of these things are essentially rackets that people use to advance their own interests

There are an estimated 158 million 5-14 year old children engaged in child labor worldwide

Thought knows that Alfred Hitchcock’s first name isn’t John. He’s using “John” in a generic sense, more as a placeholder than as a name

Black Thought’s rhymes will make your face freeze up in amazement as if you had just undergone a treatment of Botox

Charles L. “Sonny” Liston was a boxer known for his especially powerful punches

Jean Paul Getty was the founder of the Getty Oil Company and one of the world’s first billionaires

Getty is the song’s single anachronism — perhaps E Roc meant to impersonate J.P.’s son and inheritor, Gordon Getty (who is, in fact, known to get together with Donald Trump and David Rockefeller for freestyle sessions)

From the 1935 book War is a Racket, by U.S. Marine Major General Smedley Butler (note the reference to Rockefeller’s dad’s company, Standard Oil):

I spent 33 years and four months in active military service and during that period I spent most of my time as a high class muscle man for Big Business, for Wall Street and the bankers. In short, I was a racketeer, a gangster for capitalism. I helped make Mexico and especially Tampico safe for American oil interests in 1914. I helped make Haiti and Cuba a decent place for the National City Bank boys to collect revenues in. I helped in the raping of half a dozen Central American republics for the benefit of Wall Street. I helped purify Nicaragua for the International Banking House of Brown Brothers in 1902-1912. I brought light to the Dominican Republic for the American sugar interests in 1916. I helped make Honduras right for the American fruit companies in 1903. In China in 1927 I helped see to it that Standard Oil went on its way unmolested. Looking back on it, I might have given Al Capone a few hints. The best he could do was to operate his racket in three districts. I operated on three continents.

David Rockefeller is the grandson of Standard Oil founder John D. Rockefeller and former chairman of Chase Manhattan Bank. He has strong connections with the World Bank, IMF, CIA, the Council on Foreign Relations, the Trilateral Commission, and more. Essentially, he is Boots' perfect villain

(Below: A picture of Rockefeller with his favorite book)