Choppers is slang for AK-47 the most popular assault rifle in the world. The bullets used in the AK-47 are 7.62. The round can literally chop you in half. Iraq, Tel Aviv and Cuba are constantly in armed conflict. The AK-47 is the most popular rifle used in these ongoing conflicts and is used by military and guerillas. T.I. states that his hood is no different constantly in armed conflict and the urban guerillas are strapped with the best “Russian Choppers”

Tel Aviv is, of course, a large city in Israel. Almost since the country’s founding in 1948, there has been often-violent conflict between Israelis and Palestinians, over 700,000 of whom were displaced in the creation of the Israeli state

For a superb take on the history of the conflict, see former Israeli resident Invincible’s song “People Not Places”

This description of how killers act serves as a nod to Biggie’s second Crack Commandment

And no, this ain’t Aerosmith

In the early days of Def Jam Records, co-founder Russell Simmons usually went by his nickname “Rush” due to his always-in-a-hurry nature and even named his management company Rush Management. Def Jam’s first releases, though, took place in 1984, not ‘83 – see the copyright 1984 date on the record label below:

Actually, “trill” is not really an onomatopoeia – a word that imitates or suggests the source of the sound that it describes, such as “oink” or “tick tock” – as much as it is a portmanteau, a blend of two (or more) words that typically combines both sounds and meanings. In this case, “trill” is likely a portmanteau of “true” and “real,” though as far as we know this has never been totally confirmed.

Metaphorically, Bun B is likening “being trill” to being onomatopoeic in the sense that if someone is trill, they are who they say they are, much as an onomatopoeia is the sound that it describes (like “buzz” or “bang”).