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  I remember really loving this track.  It weaves in and out of different samples, while Cube runs through various references to other groups.  Most of the samples and voices are recognizable.   An artifact from this era, sampling has a more "Wild West" feel to it than it does today.  Back then, a DJ would go to a yard sale and "jack a beat" with the horde of lawyers coming after them.  Today, you have AI tools to search for samples.   I loved this track for all the musical samples.  James Brown and Public Enemy are some of the biggest.   This song is right in the sweet spot of hip hop.  Puffy is still only using three bottles of baby oil.  Digital Underground is blowing up, and Ice Cube left NWA.  2Pac was working with Digital Underground, which this song samples; he was probably preparing for his appearance on Same Song, a DU joint.   Speaking of Digital Underground.  Ice Cube makes a remark abou...

"The cash must flow.  If you scam them, they will pay." Can we laugh, mock, and meme a man who deserves hatred too?   Given that I grew up in Jim's heyday, I know how much of a terrible person he was.  He scammed millions out of boomers and their parents.  People forget the PTL club, Praise the Lord, or Pass the Loot.  I tended to lean toward an anti-religious lifestyle, partly due to these TV preachers.   Like Hogan, my views about him are complex.  I remember my boomer parents mocking them, lumping them in with Reagan.  The 80s were the age of religious groups scamming the followers into giving money. Two of the biggest were Jimmy Swaggart and Jim Bakker.   I remember watching that shit during the day and not getting it or liking it.  I was confused about why this woman, Tammy Faye Bakker, would let her makeup run down her face or why she looked like a wax model.   (Makes me realize there's a subplot about this...