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#HOLY BAT GUANO!!!
Play on words “robin” meaning “robbing” she’s stealing hoes here there and everywhere
She could also be relating to rapper Lil Wayne as well seeing that she claims to be the “female Weezy”, referring him to Batman and she his sidekick, Robin, making them partners in the strip club.
She’s Hip-Hop’s “Super Woman”, from fake hoes and bitches, so she’s “robbing hoes” (typically a crime to Batman) to clean up the genre. NYC just so happens to where Gotham is located (Nicki is technically from Queens, not Manhattan)
Nicki also mentions Batman in another song. The theme song from Batman is used as instrumental for this track.
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Nicki Minaj has been opening doors for female rappers ever since she’s started popping. Nicki puts these new artists in the game.
But these “sons of Nicki” aren’t independently winning – they’re not pulling their own weight. So Nicki graciously gives them a small percentage of her fame and glory.
ACCEPTED COMMENT: 1. Queens and Kings (though she commonly sees herself as the Queen of Kings) are responsible for employing their hierarchy with various jobs and positions. So Nicki is putting these “Rap peasants” on the game, and giving them exposure. They “borrow” off of her notoriety.
- The 5% can be seen as a reference to the percentile the elite ruling class makes compared to the rest of everyone else in the pyramid. She’s willing to give “5%” of her wealth, which is “chump change” to her, but “riches” to her enemies and future competition.
“The pyramid of wealth”:
Nicki is definitively in the top 24.2 metres. While for the lower storeys getting much money (that depends on definition of the word “much” of course) would be way more then enough, for her it’s a normal thing.
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Besides lyrically spitting the way Jay-Z does on this track, she has a long history of making Hov-esque parallels to his many pseudonyms: “Young Nick'”, “Don Dada”, “President of the NYC” and now “The Kid”.
Three puns on “bars”: bars as in rap lines, texting and phone signal.
You can’t even reach her with full phone signal because she is too busy doing big things, working on music, award shows, interviews etc.
You can’t compete with her even if you’re coming at her with your best rap lines. She can spit better than you.
She doesn’t respond to any “text” from young haters, be that on social media or in the press. Grown women don’t have time to play with hate.
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She graduated at the top of her class, from famed Performing Arts School in NYC back in 2003
To pass in Summa Cum Laude is to excel “With highest honor (or praise)” of all 3 Latin Honors levels
She studied to be an actress, which actually is the origin on all her role playing, voices, delivery etc. such as in this verse
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The Last Supper is a famous Biblical event, where soon after Jesus Christ was betrayed and crucified on the cross soon after.
You better make a sign of the cross with your fingers, because you won’t be gettin' a resurrection.
Metaphorical more than allegorical, Nicki’s saying her enemies' careers are going to end soon, like the Last Supper, so they better eat up and prepare to die, before it’s too late for them to back out from Nicki’s onslaught
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