"There are x lights" is probably a reference to the ST:TNG episode "Chain of Command", in which Picard is shown four lights, but then tortured to try to get him to say there are five. That itself presumably draws on Orwell's 1984, where Winston Smith undergoes something similar with fingers rather than lights.

"I got 99 problems" is a line from a single by Jay-Z, which also draws on one by Ice-T.