East/West. Just scaled down for metaphor

Town might’ve been used instead of coast to show that he doesn’t have beef with all NY rappers, just Biggie and whoever esle wants to support Biggie Mobb Deep, Fugees etc.)

In the midst of the East Coast/West Coast rivalry, many east groups showed Biggie support and started taking shots at Tupac, like The Fugees and Mobb Deep

Continuing from the previous line, the snowball is a metaphor for “snowballing”, as in getting greater with time. So, since the signing of the “2.0 Boys”, everything is going to snowball to where Shady Records is the biggest and baddest record label, or biggest snowball

“When I was 12, I went to hell for snuffing Jesus
I’m waving automatic guns at nuns…”

Simple metaphor. Scissors cut things, but Dre on turntables “cuts”

Reference to M.A.D., or Mutual Assured Destruction. In the Cold War, if the US shot a nuke at Russia then they’d shoot one back, causing a nuclear Holocaust, ending the world. He’s saying how could people save the world when he’s ending it?

This whole verse is about how no one appreciates the little things his work nowadays. Quality has gone down in the music industry, except for Em and he knows it

He’s mad that no appreciates the little things he does. Quality is gone from people’s minds today, except people at RAP GENIUS