John Jay College is on 59th Street and 10th Avenue. So Renee is probably walking east to Columbus Circle where she should catch the A, B, C, D or 1 train. Here is a map.

Note that the Time Warner Center, which currently dominates Columbus Circle, was built from 2000-2003, and this song was released in 1995; so those glass towers would not have been present on Renee’s commute.

In 1995 the New York Coliseum, a convention center built by Robert Moses, still stood on that site.

Biz fills this song with rhymes-within-lines:
* way and – displaying
* body – Bacardi
* down – sound
* fun – number one

Sometimes it seems like this flow has more rhymes within each line than it does at the ends of lines.

Here Biz combines the two words “way and” into a rhyme with the single word “displaying”. This spreading of rhymes across multiple words is a technique that would later get expanded upon greatly. Eminem in particular does this a lot.

An iconic example of a classic flow technique from this era:
Biz takes the last word of a clause, in this case “down”, and makes it the first word of the following line in order to fit what he wants to say in the meter he has chosen.

Like he just did moments ago with nympho / maniac

Biz name drops his song Make The Music.

Biz’s music was always very single-driven: a handful of his songs became megahits, while he never really became celebrated for full length albums. Here he seems aware of this position that he’s in as a single hit-maker.

Biz calls himself a brainiac. Unlike many rappers, he’s not afraid to expose his nerdiness. This tendency is most notable in his song Just A Friend, but it permeates much of his music.

Perhaps Dres is concerned about climate change, asteroid impacts, the mayan apocalypse, or other end-of-the-world scenarios. Or… perhaps he isn’t… and by assuming that the Earth will exist indefinitely he is saying that his music will rock the globe for ever.

Some MCs look like they work hard to rap so well (Talib Kweli is one example of the Chris Sabo’s of the rap game).

Dres, on the other hand, has a flow that is incredibly easy and natural.

The minds of children of Dres' generation, like many before them, were infected by Disney’s 1946 film Song Of The South, which included the hit song Zip A Dee Do Dah, as well as a virtuosic fusion of live action and animation. The film has since been locked away in the Disney vaults because of its racist content.