A pun here on the well-known home furnishings store Bed Bath & Beyond

F.E.M. makes a historically-sound point here – Eskimos have been hunting whales since about 800 AD! A more modern Eskimo whaling crew, below:

The use of the word “wisdom” here is not accidental. It also appears in the NGE’s Supreme Alphabet:

(W)—Wisdom:(Woman) wisdom is the component of knowledge, while the understanding brings about a clear picture of both through the eye of true understanding

Ra is the ancient Egyptian sun god. Many 5%ers and other black nationalist groups have adopted neo-Egyptian religions

Wise points out that “G” (as in the omnipresent “What’s up, G” greeting) actually comes from 5% lingo. In their Supreme Alphabet, “G” stands for “God”. The use of “G” as an all-purpose greeting came from that. It was only later that, divorced from its origins, it came to also stand for “gangsta”. Wise laments both this and, relatedly, the shift of focus in rap from 5%-inspired self-empowerment to tales of the street life

Wise argues that white supremacy and mental colonization creates extreme pressure on blacks. He uses this to contextualize the actions of Colin Ferguson, a black man who opened fire on a crowded Long Island Railroad train in late 1993

Ferguson’s lawyers proposed what has come to be called the “black rage” defense:

[His lawyers] argued Ferguson had been driven insane by racial prejudice, and could not be held criminally liable for his actions even though he had committed the killings. The attorneys compared it to the utilization of the battered woman defense, posttraumatic stress disorder, and the child abuse syndrome in other cases to negate criminal accountability. Kuby said the notes carried by Ferguson on the day of his arrest demonstrated that Ferguson was motivated by rage during the shootings

The “notes” in the aforementioned paragraph contained rants against, among numerous other people and things, “racism by Caucasians and Uncle Tom Negroes”

Ferguson personally rejected this defense and was allowed to defend himself. He was convicted and received 315 years in prison

Members of the Nation of Gods and Earths view the black man as God – both individually and collectively. See here for more on the NGE’s teachings.

X and Y are references to x and y chromosomes. Females have two of the same kind of sex chromosome (XX) and are called the homogametic sex. Males have two distinct sex chromosomes (XY) and are called the heterogametic sex. Combining them means that the baby is coming.

This is a sample of Big Daddy Kane on Biz Markie’s classic “Just Rhymin' With Biz”

This is a sample from Mobb Deep’s famous “Shook Ones Pt. II”

This is a sample of Greg Nice on Nice & Smooth’s “Funky For You”