When Lyte was “the 90’s,” she doesn’t mean the decade – the album that contains this song was released in 1988. She means streets in the East 90’s, which are in her home neighborhood of Flatbush, Brooklyn

According to Lyte, she and Antoinette did in fact once “go for the words”:

We actually had a battle once at the World. I won. Even then, it was understood completely that it was just business

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A wordplay-filled run here. Lyte puns on:

Stocks and bonds, in the business sense of the words

The popular hip-hop phrase “Word is bond”, a phrase which likely derives from the Nation of Gods and Earths saying “Word is born” (“born” is an important concept in their theology and is the “b” in their Supreme Alphabet)

And last but not least, the suave fictional spy James Bond

Lyte explained (again, in Coleman’s book) what the “10% dis” thing was about:

It’s titled that because it’s only ten percent of what I could have said. I didn’t even know Antoinette. It was strictly a war on wax

Lyte explained the story behind the beat stealing charge in this book:

The Audio Two had spoken with Hurby Luv Bug about getting a female act and doing an answer to “Top Billin'” called “Stop Illin'”. Hurby kept putting it off, and the next thing we knew we were in the car and heard the song “I Got an Attitude” [by Antoinette, produced by Hurby] using the same kicks and snares [as “Top Billin'”] – and she flipped Milk’s lyrics also. They [Milk and Giz] didn’t want to dis a female MC so they said, ‘You have to do it.’

This was not the first time that Hurby Luv Bug was accused of being a beat biter. See another instance here

Snoop’s three children are named Corde, Cordell, and Cori. As of this writing in early 2012 they are 17, 15, and 11, respectively

Snoop’s rides show how he was moving up in the street life. He went from driving a Camaro to the meme old-school pimp car, a Cadillac Fleetwood Brougham (1982 model pictured below):

“Zo” here is slang for “ounce”. It is the “oz.” abbreviation of ounce with the letters reversed

Snoop was likely talking tough back on Long Beach’s East 61 Street

Snoop’s cousin Donnie “Lil' ½ Dead” Smith has been shouted out on a bunch of the Doggfather’s records. See more info here