Usually most rappers write and rap to get things off their chest or address unhappy situations etc. Ace has a sad soul and he’s saying he’ll probably be doing that until he’s very old.

Masta Ace won’t disappear from hip hop, he will be here and he will keep giving us music

Untill MA is under the ground – He will never retire from hiphop. Isn’t this qualified as having double standards hence his alleged retirement date (after the release of Long Hot Summer)?

Sample from Nas' “Hate Me Now”

Busta Rhymes travel to perform in a lot of countries. Artists tend to have groupies meeting them while on the road.

New York is the mother of Hip-Hop. That’s where it all started. Hip Hop first emerged in the South Bronx in the early 1970s.

New York Giants and New York Jets are professional American football teams based in New Jersey, representing the New York metropolitan area.

New York Knicks is a professional basketball team based in New York City

DJ Scratch is a DJ and producer from The Bronx who first gained fame as the DJ for EPMD. He produced this track for Busta Rhymes although many mistake it for Swizz Beatz who provides the hook on the song.

The similarity to Diamond D’s “I Went For Mine” (which featured the same loop almost 15 years earlier) is coincidental. Apparently Scratch had never heard Diamond’s original.

Stay real to yourself because you can’t be someone else.

In the early 2000’s Ja Rule was being criticize for biting his once-rhyme partner DMX

This also got him a response diss from Eminem on the song “Bump Heads”;

But this motherfcker Ja
musta lost his mind
That X, got him thinkin' he
was DMX