At the time this song was released, 1992, rappers were extremely concerned with “selling out” or “going pop”. Hip-hop was not yet the commercial juggernaut we’ve come to know it as today, so rappers who wanted a large audience had to have a more pop-friendly sound, something many rappers vehemently criticized.

Another interesting connection drawn – in this case between black enlistment rates – generally around 20% for the Army, vastly outnumbering their 13% population makeup – and government, religious, and corporate efforts to censor or ban rap music. In both cases, by Guru’s reasoning, powers that be are trying to destroy blacks – by taking their lives in one case, and their culture in the other.

Despite the fact that most theologians believe that someone with Jesus' background would have looked like a modern-day Syrian or Jordanian, the messiah is almost exclusively portrayed as white in most Western art. As Wikipedia delicately puts it:

Because of the commonness of this depiction, it is often confused with historical fact. It has dispersed so widely that many cultures have at least to some extent assimilated the image of a white Jesus. Western Christians spread images of a European Jesus through their encounters with peoples of Africa, the Americas, Australia and parts of Asia (often through colonization), from the 16th to the 20th century. Many nonwhite regions and ethnicities have depicted Jesus in this way, sometimes routinely…

The SAT Reasoning Test, a standard exam in the United States for students hoping to get into college, has long been accused of racial bias. This article examines some of the reasoning behind the accusation in depth.

Hov was referencing the rumors surrounding his then-unconfirmed romance with singer Beyonce Knowles, who is now his wife. B’s father (and former manager – ouch!) is Matthew Knowles

The bitch who is mad at him was likely singer Blu Cantrell, who very publicly made a play for Hov around this time