A lot of rappers were wearing Versace Shirts around 1995/1996.

WC with the triple braided beard.

Ice Cube references his track with Dr. Dre called “Natural Born Killaz” from the Murder Was The Case soundtrack released in 1994.

Sampled from Ice Cube’s Verse in Gangsta Gangsta

Ice Cube went to Minnesota to sell drugs. In My Summer Vacation Cube tells a story about a gang member & his homies relocating to St. Louis to sell drugs. Cube relocated because everybody sells dope in LA to make a profit.

Ice Cube reminisces about the song Givin Up the Nappy Dugout he did on Death Certificate.

The hook Dj Clark Kent sampled was from Pain By 2Pac

Growing up in a South Central Neighborhood, there is probably a set or gang that runs the block. Some kids choose to join a gang because of broken homes or the environment that surrounds them and others are already gang affiliated, because they were born into a family that has gang members in it.

EX: The Game. Watch this video from 6:00

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZAFyF_joQTg

Snoop was in jail for cocaine possession & did time before he met Dr. Dre

Could also be a nod to Dr. Dre’s line in “Lil' Ghetto Boy”, which rhymes a similar line with “swoll”:

Now I’m holding a dub, sitting on swoll
27 years old, up for parole, stroll

Puffy was on top of Hip Hop in 1997 (Even with the death of Notorious B.I.G.) He was 26/27 when No Way Out Dropped. He was very young running a profitable record company at the time.

Thugs aren’t the type of people you usually see get all emotional but thugs are people & everybody has feelings.

Biggie even cried when he saw his girlfriend dead on Me & My Bitch

Remember O-Dog was crying at the end of Menace II Society when Caine and Shareef got killed.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xDQliAo05Vw