50’s wearing a diamond-studded necklace, watch, and earrings. Rappers referring to diamond-studded jewellery as being “frozen” (a play on diamonds being called “ice”) is a common hip hop trope – see e.g. Biggie on “Brooklyn’s Finest”.

The joke being that even as Jemaine confesses to trying to correct the sexism in his rap songs, he simultaneously calls women “bitches and hoes” (prefaced with the adjective “lovely” to further underscore the juxtaposition).

Frank addresses the ongoing clamour since the 2012 release of channel ORANGE by stating that he will release his music when he feels like it, irrespective of external pressures.

In 2009 Frank joined the musical collective Odd Future and signed a contract with Def Jam Recordings.

It took Frank a bit more time to become successful, starting with his 2011 mixtape nostalgia, ULTRA, but in 2009 he was able to stop having a “day job” and focus on his musical career in earnest. Thus from then on he hasn’t needed to worry about financial needs as much, and can spend more time focusing on ensuring that he creates top quality music.

As Frank Ocean has referenced in other songs such as “Thinkin Bout You,” he was raised in Louisiana, and Hurricane Katrina hit right after he started his studies at the University of New Orleans. This whole verse contains imagery from his experience of the hurricane’s aftermath.

Classic meme phrase, originating in the early years of hip hop with DJ Kool Herc and Grandmaster Flash & The Furious Five (see “Superrappin'”).

The phrase has since used by artists including KRS-ONE (see “Step Into a World (Rapture’s Delight)”) and Common (see “I Used to Love H.E.R.”).

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Kanye reminisces about the pain of his early struggles in the music industry (some of this is narrated on the outro for “Last Call”)

While Kanye’s haters are claiming that his fame has changed him, he instead counters that it has helped enable him to fulfill his artistic vision (his “thang”).

Referencing the opening lines of N.W.A’s song “Straight Outta Compton”, as well as that Frederick Douglass was a runaway slave and erudite intellectual.

The reference to N.W.A even went as far as showing a screencap of the background from the Straight Outta Compton music video, complete with the “Vote Wesley Fenderson Jr.” sign on a bench.