"Throughout my junior high years it was all friendly, but now this higher learning got the Remy in me"
He has often said that he came from the school of hard knocks, so the first obvious interpretation of this lyric would be that his early introduction to the school or hard knocks was "junior high" where he didn't know much about how the streets worked. His vision was clouded by dreams and greed, both very exciting to a young hustler.
But as time went on and he lost friends or whatever, that excitement faded away and the danger got very real. To numb this pain, many street hustlers will turn to the very substance that drowned many of their clients whether it be crack or alcohol (Remy Martin)
But there is also a movie titled "Higher Learning" which is about tremendous racial strife on a college campus in the 90's. It was directed by John Singleton who was introduced to the cinematic world by his direction of "Boyz N The Hood" (another hood classic).
In this movie a young man named Remy finds himself lost on a college campus. He seemed to be "a pleasant guy all his f*ckin life" until he ran into a group of skinheads that he identified with and was thus accepted by and initiated into.
Now this higher learning got the Remy in me...
