Sasquatch - Intellectual

Schleprock is a fictional character from The Pebbles and Bamm-Bamm Show, spin-off from the acclaimed series The Flintstones. He was said to have caused bad luck to people he was around.

Ice Cube is stating that he likes how people hate on him because they feel as if they have bad luck and will never be at the same level of success he is and how he likes to bring bad luck onto you like Schleprock.

hes the one you hate; “No One Likes Saggy Titties!”

Captain Crunch is the mascot of a popular Quaker Oats cereal. This is a play on words since cereal sounds the same as serial

When he travels to Africa, he is seen as the equivalent of “King Kong”. King Kong is a fictional character, a giant movie monster resembling a colossal gorilla, that has appeared in several movies since 1933. These include the groundbreaking 1933 movie, the film remakes of 1976 and 2005,

as well as various sequels of the first two films. The character has become one of the world’s most famous movie icons.

In other words, Ice Cube is one bad motherf*cker.

Ice Cube IS the father of gangsta rap, the one who will bring balance to the force.

Carnivore means meat eater, so he is gonna eat you after he kills you

Further reference to Vesuvius as everyone who lived in Pompeii was killed and preserved in a clay like plaster. He is saying that anyone who gets in his way will be taken out like the victims of the Vesuvius eruption.

As if Cube were Sasquatch, he’s been spotted. All lore about Sasquatch/Bigfoot is based on “eye witness” accounts. Proving these accounts to be true or not is always up for debate, as witnessed by Spike TV’s “10 Million Dollar Bigfoot Bounty”.

Ice Cube’s flow is like a Tsunami, destroying everything in its path.

You can’t swim with the Sharks.

Since his flow is like lava, he’s referring to Mount Vesuvius, a volcano that destroyed and buried the city of Pompeii.

Cube often refers to his flow as “pyroclastic”, which he is describing as slow but powerful.

Godzilla is a fictional giant reptile creature infamous for wreaking havoc in Japan. One of the most recognizable pop-culture icons of Japanese culture, Godzilla has been expanded into comic books and TV shows

Godzilla in his debut movie in 1954

He even has his own star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame!

In this line, Ice Cube is comparing himself to Godzilla. Like Godzilla in Japan, he can wreak havoc in the hip-hop industry and has already established himself as an important hip-hop icon.

Thriller is the sixth studio album by American recording artist Michael Jackson. It was released on November 30, 1982, by Epic Records as the follow-up to Jackson’s critically and commercially successful 1979 album Off the Wall. Thriller explores similar genres to those of Off the Wall, including pop, R&B, rock, post-disco, funk, and adult contemporary music. Recording sessions took place between April and November 1982 at Westlake Recording Studios in Los Angeles, California, with a production budget of $750,000, assisted by producer Quincy Jones.

Ice Cube references the classic horror franchise, A Nightmare on Elm Street.

He refers to Atilla the Hun. A Eurasian nomad He was leader of the Hunnic Empire, which stretched from the Ural River to the Rhine River and from the Danube River to the Baltic Sea. He was ruthless and had a lot of enemies.

A reference to the U.S. soldiers in Vietnam who committed probable war crimes

Sample from P.E.’s Don’t Believe The Hype

You think you’re hard, but Ice Cube is a thing of legend.

A clever play on the word “bucket” (low class cars) and the movie “The Bucket List”, instead of a list full of buckets or low rate dreams, Ice Cube has a first class list, with Bugatti on top

Out in Oakland he reps the Raiders, an NFL team whose mascot is a pirate.

A reference to the riots in 1992 in Los Angeles.

The riots started in April after a jury acquitted four Los Angeles Police Department officers of assault.

The mostly white officers were videotaped beating an African-American man named Rodney King following a high-speed police pursuit. After the announcement of the verdict, thousands of people in the metro area of LA began to riot over 6 days.

Rodney King