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Alex Wiley is another Chicago-based rapper whom Chance has worked with in the past, notably on his 10Day track Windows. According to this line, at the time Mr. Wiley was tripping on payote, a pretty intense hallucinogenic cactus. This is also a deceivingly clever play on words as Wile E. Coyote is a popular cartoon character.

In addition to shouting out his cohort Alex Wiley, “wil'ing” has several interpretations. It could refer to “wildin' out” meaning freaking out/trippin' (pun intended), or it could refer to “wailing” like a coyote, whose howls are pretty wail-like.

Funny enough, peyote is native to Mexico, a place where Chance once documented himself tripping.

Chance began the song with a questioning of morality. This naturally progresses into an existential questioning of Christianity as, throughout history, the Christian Church has been one of mankind’s primary moral authorities.

“God’s phone dies every time that I call on Him” is a creative way to say that all of his prayers seem to go unanswered. He next playfully asks himself if Jesus Christ had a Twitter would he follow him, bringing two interpretations: follow could mean “imitate”, or refer to the way one subscribes to another’s Twitter feed. Essentially the second line asks, “Am I living morally?” and concludes the series of questions which have led to that.

These lines seem to question Christianity more than criticize, though they do appear to be critical of today’s generation of youth, focused on technology and material things.

At this point in the song the hook is performed twice, the first time by Vic following his verse, and the second time by Chance once again. One should note that the lyrics differ during Vic’s rendition:

Cigarettes on cigarettes, my Momma think I stank,
I got burn holes in my memories, my homies think it’s dank,
I miss my cocoa butter kisses, I think we all addicted

He chooses to explains that his memory of this childhood they’re addicted to is shoddy (and he thinks his trouble recollecting is from smoking weed).

“That’s a wrap” is a common idiom to say something is finished. This is, of course, the end of the song. Donald switches it up to play on the words as Acid Rap is the name of the tape the track comes off of.

The phrase “that’s a wrap” is (perhaps stereo-typically) thought to be used often by film directors, making it fitting for ‘Bino to say, as he’s an actor, writer, rapper. Also, should you replace “wrap” with it’s homophone, “rap”, this is quite literally a rap.

The second half of the line is a clever little double entendre in itself: “you had your chance” meaning you had an opportunity to stop them before they killed the track, and “you had your Chance”, meaning earlier in the song you heard from Chance the Rapper and now Childish Gambino, too!

Wayne’s World is a popular 1992 (“90’s niggas raped the game”) American comedy film which marked comedian/actor Mike Myers' movie debut and also featured the hilarious Dana Carvey. The last line connects into this one, as during one scene of the film the two are playing hockey in the street and repeatedly yell “Game on!"
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HpkecYVRt_E This entire verse is somewhat conversational between Cole and a personified Ms. Hip-Hop (reminiscent of I Used to Love H.E.R.) Cole shouts out many other rappers, as they too would have a relationship with hip-hop if it were a person, this line in particular, of course, referencing Lil Wayne.

“That just came on” can have two meanings. The first of which being that the aforementioned film Wayne’s World just came on television, the second that these lines, where he randomly proclaims he would like to have sex with Tia and Tamera, just came randomly. This relates back to Lil Wayne, who is often known to record in one-take without writing anything down, according to his MTV’s Behind the Music special. Weezy has mentioned the movie himself several times, and even did so on his recent mixtape collab with grown Simba.

Referring to the haters mentioned in the line previous, they are hot-heads, hence “tomato head.” Imposter (meaning “a fake”) can be pronounced as “im-pasta”, thus connecting it with “tomato head” as tomato-based sauce is a common topping for pasta.

The modern day pasta noodles one would buy at their local supermarket come in a variety of shapes and sizes, but is often a “process”-ed food and most popularly the spaghetti shape (see above), “long” and “drawn out.”

Let it be known that the one and only Andre 3k was first to use the impostor/pasta wordplay on The Love Below’s “A Life in the Day of Benjamin Andre (Incomplete).”

Most anybody knows Yeezy’s from Chi-Town, and if Chief Keef’s music isn’t evidence enough, violence there is pretty problematic (“509 died in Chicago…”).

Essentially the line says that Chicago isn’t foreign to shootings as “plug” is slang for shoot. In addition to being a double entendre, it is also a simile — “plug like outlets” refers to plugging an electronic device into a wall outlet for power, as depicted above. Also, along with the sexual theme of the song, electrical connectors are commonly differentiated by their “sex”, as female connectors receive and hold the male ones. This plays into the sexual themes of the song.

Nike SB is the name of the Nike sub-brand for skateboarding.

A check is a form of payment. Fash insults the whack by saying while he’s “collecting cheese”, the last money they saw was simply a check mark in the form of the Nike “Swish” logo (see above) on their shoes. A check mark is also a symbol indicating that something is done well or correct, so one could further interpret this line to also mean that his competition isn’t coming correct.

A cockpit is, quite obviously, the area which houses the pilot in a flying vehicle. When in-flight, it’s pretty high off the ground. He could also have just blazed some mary jane.

In these lines, Fash is presumably referring to a helicopter, vehicles which have long been nicknamed “chopper” (here shortened to “chop”) and can carry huge weaponry. “Chopper” is also slang for a gun — hopefully you didn’t think Weezy and Rozay had helicopters in their car.

Lastly, one’s face/cheek area is sometimes referred to as their “chops”. So the “hollow tips out his top lip” could refer to figurative, lyrical bullets.

Onomonopia is a literary/poetic device which forms words, such as buzz or murmur, that imitate the sounds associated with the objects or actions they refer to. Jay utilizes this technique in this line with “click clat sprrat blast blast”, where he uses the sounds of cocking back a gun and spraying bullets to describe how the cops were killed.

We’re definitely talkin ‘bout a 187, bruh.