In NWA’s “Gangsta Gangsta” Cube said “Life ain’t nothin' but bitches and money”

Minister Louis Farrakhan’s Nation of Islam sells bean pies as a combination fundraiser/means to promote NOI dietary principles. When Common called out Cube for ‘slangin’ bean pies and St. Ides in the same sentence,‘ this is the kind of thing he was referring to

Dre commands respect from San Diego, the southernmost big city in California, all the way north to the San Francisco Bay

Traditionally, the Sunshine State is Florida, not California. California is known for its excellent weed, though, and hemp is the plant in which weed is harvested from. .

Other SkyPager lyrical references include Ice Cube’s ‘Fuck Pac-Tel, move to SkyPager’ (‘Steady Mobbin’) and A Tribe Called Quest’s ‘Skypager,’ a song that did for the beeper what De La Soul’s ‘Ring Ring’ did for the answering machine

Hawaiian Punch is a popular soft drink. Their commercials used to feature the mascot, Punchy, asking people if they wanted a nice Hawaiian Punch.

Then he’d punch them

The Canadian-born ABC anchorman was, along with Dan Rather and Tom Brokaw, one of the ‘big three’ of American TV news in the ‘80s and '90s. On September 11, 2001, he stayed on air for seventeen straight hours

Joe Piscopo was on ‘Saturday Night Live.’ Like comedian Rodney Dangerfield, he also ventured into novelty rap songs, recording ‘Honeymooners Rap’ in 1985

Italian-American boxer played by Sylvester Stallone in a series of movies that critic Joe Queenan described as a ‘racist fantasy’

Unlike professional sports leagues (e.g., the NFL in 1968, MLB in 1990, the NBA in 1998), the dope game does not stop for labor disputes.