Sage doesn’t indulge in beef-rap. Also, a play on the hip-hop group Public Enemy.

This line is just a li(n)e, though, as Sage loves to make his enemy public (by putting their voicemail on his album) or by challenging him in rap battles, which is where Sage first got strangely famous.

This is a song about dancing, and Sage is setting himself up as a devil with two left hooves, or feet, meaning he can’t dance well. He’s challenging anyone to dance with him.

This is also a fight reference that is an open invitation for any challengers (metaphor for MC-ing).

A continuation of the commentary on anti-French sentiment that references France’s token of good will in gifting our country with the Statue of Liberty. He’s saying that if the U.S. is such an ingrate to insult the French after such a gift, the French should have it back, along with all the huddled masses it comes with (the inscription on the base of the Statue, the sonnet The New Colossus by Emma Lazarus, reads in part, “Give me your tired, your poor, your huddled masses yearning to breathe free.”

Sage doesn’t mug for the camera; he’d rather hit an impostor.

Jay and Ye have arrived. Coincidentally, Kanye has a sad history of considering “stars” to be a singular noun.

Note that the Watch the Throne album release party was held at a planetarium in New York’s Natural History Museum.

This line may also be playing on the phrase “Elvis has left the building,” which is often said when one means to bring events to an effective end. Elvis Presley was one of the earliest popular music icons and was notable for causing hysteria among his fans. Kanye is equating his and Jay-Z’s popularity and the effect they have upon their fans with that of Elvis. Moreover, by turning the phrase on its head (“left the building” vs “is in the building”), Kanye is suggesting that the show is about to begin (figuratively speaking) and people should get excited.

A scab is someone who breaks strikes. Sage is saying that when everyone else is engaging in meaningless “awareness-raising” activities like hunger strikes, he’s going to actually do something.

Of course, a scab at a hunger strike doesn’t make a lot of sense (you can’t have someone eat for you).

Sage compares the tactics used by the military to get the interest of students to the tactics of wonderbras: in other words, very simple, exploitative tactics.

“Push-up contest” is a double entendre: military recruiters will often challenge muscle dysmorphic young men to push-up contests to get their interest, much like a wonderbra will push up breasts to garner some interest.

Jay-Z is killing the competition – “I see dead people.” In the film The Sixth Sense, Bruce Willis talks to Haley Joel Osment. By the end of the film it’s revealed that Willis is a ghost and Osment has a sixth sense and is able to talk to dead people. Thus Jay is saying he keeps other rappers dead.

Mass media controlling people:

A “Headshrinking magician” dumbs you down, and a “shapeshifting reptilian turned body contortionist” twists around and morphs and changes like a slimy two-facer.

Also, all three of these designations are side-show freak characters.

This line also references David Icke’s conspiracy theory that all men of power are actually a reptilian race of shapeshifters who have taken over Earth to achieve a hidden, draconian agenda. Read all about it here!