This inversion of “landing on Plymouth Rock” could be a reference to, or influenced by, Cole Porter’s popular 1934 song “Anything Goes”, which includes the lines:

If today
Any shock they should try to stem
‘Stead of landing on Plymouth Rock
Plymouth Rock would land on them

In any case, Malcolm X uses this turn of phrase to communicate the idea that America and American History has been forced upon African-Americans, which is much different than Porter’s playful sentiment about changing times.

Q-Tip suggests that a sexual position is only interesting if it’s challenging (i.e. if it requires contortion). This is like art: if it is not challenging in some way, it’s not interesting.

Greg Nice smokes good marijuana but doesn’t do any harder drugs beyond that, thus he never gets the shakes. In his commercial success “Sometimes I Rhyme Slow” he also takes a hard line against hard drugs.

In 2010 Bill Cosby’s net worth was estimated at $450 million.

In 1995 – at the time that this song was written – Cosby was on primetime tv and Oprah was on daytime, so maybe it seemed like he was making more money.

Today Oprah’s net worth is estimated at 2.5 billion dollars.

One of the hallmarks of the aspiration towards wealth that occurs in hiphop from the mid-1990s and earlier is the juxtaposition, often in very close proximity, of mentions of extreme wealth (in this case Blake Carrington of Dynasty), with details of middle-class life (in this case philly cheesesteaks and land-o-lakes butter).

Around the time that this song came out, artists like Diddy were beginning to paint an unwinking vision of wealth by replacing relatable references like these with references to luxury brands that members of the middle and lower classes might previously have been unaware of, like Bentley and Maybach.