The Incredible Hulk is a superhero in the Marvel universe. He is the alter-ego of a mild-mannered doctor named Bruce Banner. When Banner is put under a heavy amount of emotional stress, he physically transforms into a large, muscular monster with green skin. Any clothes Banner was wearing will rip apart because the transformation makes his body much larger.

Em read a lot of comic books when he was a kid, and has made other references to the Incredible Hulk in his songs, such as in “Careful What You Wish For”, “Cold Wind Blows” and “Drop The World”. Em walks around with ripped clothes like Hulk does, but it’s likely his clothes are ripped because he was so poor at the time this song was written.

1999 (95+4=99), referencing the year this album was released.

Aftermath is Dre’s record label; he’s saying he makes money (“math”) off his label

The World Class Wreckin Cru was an electro group which Dr Dre was a member of. “Turn Off the Lights” was their biggest hit, which is extremely brave of Dre to bring up that especially cringey song performed by the group, given that they used to dress like this:

Another song in Particular by the Wreckin Cru which should be mentioned was ”Surgery,” which is written about Dr Dre.

Referring to Eminem’s debut, The Slim Shady LP which was selling 50,000 copies a week at the time this song was written (it went on to be certified quadruple-platinum).

Jay-Z who wrote the lyrics to this song loves to count things

Though he was out of the visible hip hop realm for a long time between The Chronic and 2001, Dre was still working, keeping in tune with the industry and listening for new artists to sign and work with.

During this time he signed and produced Eminem, one of the most popular artists of all time. Not bad.

Dre had a brief falling out with Snoop, after Dre had left Death Row. When Dre set up Aftermath, those that stayed in Death Row dissed Dre. Also, Dre had a brief falling out with RBX, and other rappers that he signed to Death Row but never released albums there. The major loss Dre had was with Tupac.

Dre left Death Row the same year Tupac got killed. The most famous line from this beef was the line “Screaming ‘Compton’ but you can’t return” on Toss It Up.

Eazy-E also died in 1995, which really hit Dre because he let money get the best of him. He basically says “Fuck the beef” here.

2Pac

Eazy E

Horror movie tropes were important to Eminem when this song came out; during concerts, he would have someone onstage dressed as a mummy (one time it was Dustin Hoffman). He even features a mummy on the album artwork to The Slim Shady LP.

Even though this is mostly a joking line about how he viewed death differently than others, he is actually trying to get a point across. Some people thought them Em didn’t care about his life when he was coming up, so he clarified that he valued his life in a way that is still humorous.