A subtle callback to the ‘funk’ from the first line—Gift will blow your head like Fred Wesley

The original Brown Bomber was boxer Joe Louis

But Gift drops bombs in rhyme

Memento Mori

I like to think of these lines as the flipside of Dorothy Parker’s most famous poem:

Razors pain you;
Rivers are damp;
Acids stain you;
And drugs cause cramp.
Guns aren’t lawful;
Nooses give;
Gas smells awful;
You might as well live

These themes would be revisited in the 2006 film Homie Spumoni

Not the most embarrassing check Paul Mooney ever cashed, but it’s on the shortlist

A reference to the tv show Alf

Well, tv and the internet

This form of poem is called a villanelle.

It’s a strict form—two end rhymes, a pattern of repeating lines and five three-line stanzas with a four-line stanza at the end.

For sheesy is like for shizzle meaning “For sure” without sounding like a Valley Girl.

This song is from 1999, but Meth’s weed-fueled psychic powers enabled him to know that, years later, his man Ghostface would release a total banger called ‘Be Easy’

While Meth is incarcerated, she maintains his business interests