This is the intro for “What’s Next” which features 2 other Kansas City natives. The song starts with Craig Smith imitating Tony G, picking up from this intro.

103 is referring to Hot 103 Jamz, it is a radio station in Kansas City. On their website they have a bio for one of their DJs, Robyn Knight. There is a sentence in it that says “Then when I suggested it to my boss now Myron D he liked it and Robyn Knight was born.”

It seems like Myron D. has some management role at the radio station. Tony G. is another DJ at Hot 103 Tech is so fond of Tony G. that years later, he would name a skit after him on his album The Gates Mixed Plate simply called “Tony G Intro.”

It sounds like there was some dispute between Myron D. and Tech. It is possible that the radio station didn’t want to play Tech’s music at the time as Tech’s music didn’t fit the mainstream sound.

Lyrics to this song are the exact same as the original released in 1999, annotations can be found here on Tech N9ne’s debut album The Calm Before the Storm

This line is discussed in a 2009 interview Tech did with HipHopDX here:

DX: On one of the illest joints on K.O.D., “Demons,” you talk about “those thangs that make you do bad things.” But is that some supernatural, evil spirit directing you to do bad things, or is that just the selfish nature of man that you or anybody else can’t always keep in check?
Tech N9ne: I’m thinking it’s the selfish nature of man, because I’ve never seen a spirit. They saying it’s evil spirits. My family taught me to believe that there’s evil spirits. That’s evil spirits in you. There’s a demon in you that’s making you do this. It’s the devil inside you, youknowhatI’msizzlin’? So, logically I’m thinking it’s man, being weak, giving in to – “It make me wanna drink a lot / Go up in the pink with not.” C’mon man, that’s not disciplined. That ain’t what my Muslim stepfather taught me. He taught me discipline. Be able to not do these things because this thing will make you live longer. If you drink alcohol, you’re not gonna live longer. If you eat pork, you’re not gonna live longer. Shit like that. So discipline is what my logic would say [is the real problem], but my Bible and my family say that’s evil spirits. So it’s confusion, I don’t have no answers for you. I don’t have no 100% answers for you.

This line was brought up in a HipHopDX interview with Tech back in a 2009 interview here:

DX: Let me get back to a few questions I had specifically about the album – stuff you said on the album. One of these questions is do you believe in karma, like you seem to be suggesting in “Shadows On The Road”? In the song you ask yourself, “Is it coming for me because of all the shit that I did in the past was bad to people?” Have you come up with an answer to that question since you wrote that?
Tech N9ne: Yeah I do believe in karma. On my neck, a long time ago when I was younger – when I was old enough to get a tattoo I guess, I mighta been 18 – I came up with this thing, it’s like a Bible verse, it says, “He who treads the path of the beast is also he who sins over principle. But be warned, for the beast in his past may return to haunt his present and twist the thoughts of the righteous.” What that means is that – “He who treads the path of the beast” means he who does bad things and lives a bad life “is also he who sins over principle.” You can repent, change. But, in changing just “be warned” because “the beast in your past may return to haunt your present and twist the thoughts of the righteous” to make you do something stupid to end up fucked up, even though you’re righteous. So karma, that’s what it means, what goes around comes around. So I always believe that. And that comes with my belief in God.