Po will diminish your crew with his skills before he comes to you to destroy you painfully and gory. That way he’s give you a chance to run. You cant hide, but you can try running.

If you do the math, (2013-1994=19), this album was released about 19 years ago. Prince Po was born in 1969, which means he is 44/45 now. 45-19=26. Prince Po is saying he is at the prime time, or “best age” for rapping, which he thinks is 26.

“Muddies” refers to the coffee shop Muddy Waters on Lyndale in Minneapolis, where Slug’s love interest once worked. The shop has since moved and is now a restaurant/bar. When he gets there, he is going to get refils and study human patterns.

Slug likes to sit and just look at the beautiful bodies/“skin” these fine lady’s possess. Sometimes, if the time is right, he’ll even let out a word to try and hear them speak. If they don’t want to, Slug don’t mind, he just shrug it off.

Some people think those who are grown shouldn’t cry and should be tough enough to keep their tears on the inside, but with all this shit goin' on, Monch can’t help but shed a tear.

Mr. Jamerson, Pharoahe Monch’s dad always use to tell OK about their beat selection

As an intro to this song, Prince Po and Monch are asking themselves “How did the real hip-hop turn to this”. This question is just the first of many other similar questions in the song (thus the title).

The answer would be Organized Konfusion! To be materialistic is to brag about cars, money and wealth. When rapping, these things have the chances of extremely slim to none of popping up in an OK song. OK would rather deal with subjects about real hip-hop.