Boots Riley and his grouo The Coup, like Kool A.D. are from Oakland.

Reference to the Luke party track.

A fitting allusion to George Orwell’s, dystopian 1945 novel Animal Farm in which a party which promises freedom leads a coup but eventually becomes at least as oppressive as its predecessor.

This hints at another age-old conspiracy theory involving the Federal Reserve.

They endorse the mark of the beast, 666, the number ascribed to an embodiment or harbinger of the Apocalypse as outlined in the Bible’s Book of Revelation, the most important source for Christian eschatology.

He describes an initiation ritual to an elite fraternal organization involving cannibalization of innocent people.

Cage has previously expressed an age-old belief in the existence of hidden Masonic, Illuminati, etc., symbology specifically in the nation’s capital.

Cage’s verse describes the structure of a world in which occult societies come to power following the near-apocalypse.

The “hooded creature” describes a common personification of death, a la the Grim Reaper. The specter of his imminent and inevitable demise is looming over him and so he plans to put it out of his mind by reveling in the newly indulgent, amoral, anarchic society for as long as his health will allow him to.