Earth changes about every 3 months to a different season. There are 4 seasons: Winter, Summer, Fall, and Spring. The game changes (music, sports, technology) just as seasons do

Throughout years, music-playing technology has evolved from Walkmans, a sony brand portable audio cassette player to an apple iPod.

He went from trying all he could to succeed, to triumph and eventually succeeding. Alot of MC’s talk about their journey from before to now being someone sucessfull. A good example of this is Biggie on “Juicy”

Timbos refers to Timberland Boots. 5411 Reeboks refer to Reebok shoes. They are “5411” because in New York they cost $54.11. As time went on, the type of footwear wore changed from Timerlands to Reeboks.

Through time, artists have changed from James Brown to Pete Rock, James Brown being a soul artists, Pete Rock being an artist incorporating soul into his music, thus both being called “soul brothas”.

As music has changed, specifically hip-hop, artists have changed from artists such as Heavy D to Bonecrusher. Both of these MC’s are large, which is probably why they are being compared.

Music has changed throughout the years. Verse is talking about how music changed from Micheal Jackson to Usher), whom are both R&B/Pop singers

Masta Ace has been around a pretty long time. He has been around since 1988, debuting on the posse-cut known as The Symphony.

When someone says there skills are ugly, it is sort of like calling there skills ill. Craig Mack isn’t a very nice looking individual, so in this line common refers to him as ugly. Craig Mack is known for his single “Flava In Ya Ear” and Common refers to himself as a flava in ya ear (a positive statement towards his raps)