Slightly scratched your Corolla
Okay, I smashed your Corolla Kanye West – Hold My Liquor
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Yeezus signifies a shift in multiple ways for West, the least of which not being his apparent lack of care about how he looks. On Yeezus, Kanye eliminates the possibility that he’s a good person at heart.
This could also be a reference to the film Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind. Clementine drives Joel’s Corolla back drunk but tells him she crashed but it just left a dent. In actual fact the whole side of the car is a mess. His also alluded to how much he likes the film in the past, and why John Brion, (composer for Eternal Sunshine), worked on Late Registration.
Uh, ign'ant-ass white kid (White kid)
But I'm still bicycling and recycling ('Cyling)
And I'm still eatin' gummy bear vitamins
All my bitches takin' Vicodin, huffin' nitrogen (Go) Mac Miller (Ft. ScHoolboy Q) – Gees
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This marks the return of Delusional Thomas, Mac’s alter-ego who first appeared on “The Star Room”.
Although Mac considers himself ig'nant (ignorant, ratchet, non-intelligent, untamed), he still participates in stereotypically “white” activities. However, while Mac is trying to stay healthy and eat his gummy bear vitamins, he turns around and sees his women doing harder drugs such as Vicodin and whippets. It’s hard out here for a white dude.
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The Three-Fifths Compromise was a compromise between the Northern and Southern states where each slave was only counted as “3/5ths of a person.” This was a way of not counting slaves (majority Black) as people but still getting the benefits of counting them for political representation.
Turn around and publish bars like it ain't got shit to do with me
Easy to record so ruthlessly, rich niggas Wale (Ft. Lupe Fiasco & Rick Ross) – Poor Decisions
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The verse starts with Kanye, breaking out of his coma. In this case, the coma is the monotony of sober living, and he’s breaking free into the crazy world of drugs and alcohol. However, the verse gets progressively worse, as it shows the side effects of how alcohol can influence a relationship. By the time he’s breaking out of the coma in the last line, he’s escaping the drunken world of lost relationships, back into the sober world.
Similar to his actual coma, he has awoken again. He is trying to transition from a dark period (where he feels he’s reached a “glass ceiling” in the fashion world) and he hopes that awakening from this new, metaphysical coma will catalyze his designer career much like his actual coma catalyzed his rap career.
It is also worth noting that except for the words FLOATIN & DEAD, HOPELESS & SOULLESS and SHOULDERS (which in this context sounds like a near rhyme)… he rhymed every last word of every line with COMA.
It is also worth noting that except for FLOATIN & DEAD, HOPELESS & SOULLESS and SHOULDERS (which I think is a half rhyme) he rhymed every last word of each line with COMA throughout this entire verse.
The last sentence of the first paragraph should be cut.
The last paragraph should be cut.
There’s no evidence that the second “back out my coma” is about escaping the drunken world of lost relationships and re-entering the sober world.
In the song, we see Kanye show up to his ex’s place as a drunken mess. He damages her car. He tries to fuck her. He has his shoes on her couch (disrespectful). He’s done drugs. Her aunt comes over and yells about Kanye being there. He tries to defend himself “Bitch you don’t even know us.”
The aunt says that Kanye is hopeless, he’ll disown you. “When it’s over it’s over.” And the next line is Kanye saying, “And bitch, I’m back out my coma.”
It’s much more likely that Kanye’s ditching this girl again. He came over as a “late-night organ donor” and now that he’s out of his coma that he’s just going to do what he does: leave.
There’s also no mention at all of his designer career. The annotation about the glass ceiling and catalyzing the designer career is a subjective interpretation that’s not based on any actual lyrics.