Audio engineers deal with the equipment used for recording and mixing sound. This line suggests that the government and certain other factors have ‘engineered’ the destruction of the black community so that they are destined to fail.

Honors uses the double entendre of “highlight-real” first as a metaphor to compare his lyrical abilities to the skill of NBA all-stars, and also to demonstrate that he is highlighting ‘real’ music. The idea of highlighting realness is continued into the next song on the album, Second Chances. In this song, Honors tells three real stories about real people having to overcome different obstacles in their lives.

H.E. is saying you’re lucky to watch him make something big out of the little shit that is there

Honor’s is also sayin' how his music perfectly captures and represents the essence of hip hop. Hip Hop is the structure that facilitated the creation of this music, and like pulling a ‘museum out of paintings’ or ‘camera’s out of pictures’ Honors is pulling hip hop out of this track.