This verse would appear in slightly modified form on the Run-D.M.C. song “King of Rock”

Both Moe Dee and Special K were members of the pioneering group The Treacherous Three. Ironically, this cipher occurred at just about the end of the group’s long run – they would break up the following year. Adding to the irony, the group’s breakup was in part due to being overshadowed by newer groups like..Run-D.M.C.

This “one for the treble” opening is a nod to the simple but effective party chants that would be done at Bronx parties in hip-hop’s early days by rappers such as Coke LaRock

The “Jam Master” here is, of course, Run-D.M.C.’s Jam-Master Jay

Patti LaBelle is a well-known pop, disco, and r&b singer. Writer’s antagonist will be doing another kind of “singing” – snitching – while locked up

Rusty “J.R. Writer” Brito was born in 1984, which would put him at about the right age – though this mixtape was released in 2005, this radio freestyle was likely recorded earlier

Despite having a successful music career, Writer will still buy $10,000 worth of coke to re-sell, just because he can – he’ll even bring his cheap car back out

Writer’s gun will literally lift you up in the air when he shoots you

This “billboards”/“bored with bills” wordplay is a poetic device called epanodos, the “repetition of a group of words in reverse order”. Adam Bradley’s book provides an old-school example from this old DMC freestyle:

I’m DMC in the place to be
And the place to be is with DMC

J continues X-Clan’s Egyptian motifs by comparing his present-day crew to the rulers of that civilization, the pharaohs