Yo, it’s tight havin' emceez put up their explanations. I’m wit' Bossplaya, I’d most def like to hear what Fifty has to say ‘bout the rhymes he kicked on Power of the Dollar.
Sparksky & Dutch is two marijuana-ized nickname versions of the classic TV cop duo Starsky & Hutch, used by Ruck & Rock from Heltah Skeltah.
Black people are still today(2012) a majority of the incarcerated people in the U.S.
Ice Cube spit a line on his legendary Amerikkka’s Most Wanted, back in 1990, which goes;
“Kicking shit called street knowledge
Why more niggas in the pen than in college?”
A fact that still remains today, there are more black people in prison than in college. American colleges overall have around 90 % Caucasian students while the other 10 % counts for international students(many of these people are European, i.e. white too) & all the other ethnic minorities of the U.S.
It’s a damn shame.
Motown group known for songs like ‘Midnight Train to Georgia’ and ‘Son of a Preacher Man’
‘Pips’ can also refer to the markings on a playing card, a die or a domino
This is also a very popular group to sample within' the Hip-Hop communities & a lot of great classics use sampling from Gladys Knight.
When A Tribe Called Quest started, they mixed street wear with traditional African clothes. Many thought this was wack, since they live in the most urbanized city in the world: New York. But with their def music Quest showed everyone that they were one of the illest.
RZA samples a Gospel song and Grym Reaper rhymes over it.
African-Americans have been forced to live the trife life by society & racism. Ice Cube states that he has to carry weight & if he doesn’t: he’ll get killed for sure.
Someone’s apparently living with their eyes closed. Nothing’s ever good in the hood.
This is possibly a semi “diss” towards Notorious B.I.G. & the song “Juicy” wherein Biggie repeatedly says “and it’s all good” after portraying his life in the streets of N.Y.C.
This line would come back to bite N.W.A on “No Vaseline” Cube reminded them
“"Tryin' to sound like Amerikkka’s Most,
You could yell all day but you don’t come close.
Cuz you know I’m the one that flown,
ya done run 100 miles, but you still got one to go.
With the L-E-N-C-H M-O-B, and ya’ll disgrace the C-P-T.
Cuz you’re gettin' fucked out your green by a white boy,
with no vaseline…”
The track’s main purpose wasn’t to diss Ice Cube, although N.W.A continually makes references towards Ice Cube being inferior to them, which is why he left them according to their side of the story:
Dr. Dre states the following during his second verse: “Started with five and, yo, one couldn’t take it
So now there’s four cause the fifth couldn’t make it”, clearly a peak towards Ice Cube being the fifth member.
For all y'all that don’t know street slang, if something “stinks”, it’s really dope. Rocky’s implying he’s the shit, do you agree?