“Death Row and Bad Boy beef” is the notorious rap beef between 2Pac/Suge Knight (Death Row) and The Notorious B.I.G./Puff Daddy (Bad Boy).

This feud, indirectly or not, led to the cold-blooded murders of both rap legends. Rest in peace.

AWOL – absent without leave, meaning you abandoned your duties as a soldier without permission. Rakim isn’t going back to war when the government asks him to.

“Be All You Can Be” is the U.S. Army recruiting slogan from 1980 to 2001.

Congress declares war on a whim and the soldiers are the ones making the sacrifice.

Master P suggests that he’s trafficking large amounts of cocaine throughout the United States. He then gets on the phone with fellow rock cocaine trafficking rapper Pimp C of UGK, who references his group’s 1992 track “Pocket Full of Stones” after P references their 1996 album Ridin' Dirty.

Switches and Dr Dre were also popular in south Texas.

T.I. calls out people such as Shawty Lo that claim to be from the hood, like the Westside of ATL, but don’t have the credentials to support their claim to street fame. This and the following four lines basically are calling out Lo for his kingpin claims on tracks such as, “Got Em 4 the L-O”, “Easily I Approach”, and “100,000”.

Reference to his own classic line from Eric B is President

I came in the door, I said it before