This may be a reference to a line from his 2010 iconic single, “POWER”:

I guess every superhero need his theme music

Kanye also seems to have an allegorical affinity for the DC superhero Batman and was seen wearing masks at the time this song released.

This metaphor continues the theme presented in the first track, “On Sight,” where Kanye samples an old vocal track from kids in a Chicago church choir, that sing “He’ll give us what we need. It may not be what we want” thus making the Kanye/Jesus/Batman allegory come full circle.

Note: On the final version, the one who says this line is Lupe Fiasco, which is why he was credited on the album as Wasalu Jaco, his real name.

Similarly to King Kong, Kanye is black, loves a white woman, and is on the top floor (penthouse rather than roof, in Kanye’s case).

Also, it would’ve been easy for Kanye to say “Get” King Kong, but he chose to say the more difficult(in this line in particular) “Kill” King Kong. The alliteration stacks Three K’s together, very likely a KKK reference.

This is the first of two film references that create an extended metaphor throughout the song. King Kong is a fictional story, it’s the media/industries interpretation of not only interracial dating but of Kanye himself. The media portrays him as a train-wreck, an ape in a white mans world. They continually try to knock him down, continually bash his choices and do not appreciate the beauty of the beast.

It’s also worth noting a recent and notorious case of the media stereotyping black men in this way – in 2008, LeBron James was the first black man to ever appear on the cover of Vogue, and this is how he was portrayed:

To put it in perspective:

Genius! In Nascar races, the race track is circular, and thus drivers are only taking left turns (no rights). Jim Crow laws, existing between 1876 and 1965, mandated that African Americans were to be separate and segregated (thus also having no rights). In Jay-Z’s famous track, 99 Problems, he says “I got 99 problems but a bitch ain’t one.” Lupe is saying that a bitch (a ho) actually is a problem, because in the Jim Crow times Afrian Americans were (ho)sed down.

Jim Crow-era police were “ho’s” because they sold their souls to the racist system and unjustly treated Black people when they were supposed to be upholding the law.

NASCAR also holds the most appeal in the deep south (another possible link between these lines).

Two tears is a common tattoo on rappers and gangsters, supposedly signifying either years spent in prison, or friends/family lost.

Lupe uses a double entendre saying he is actually “two-tiered” meaning he is multi-layered, proven by this very line. These lyrical layers keep folding into themselves infinitely, just like the effect given from two mirrors facing each other.

When the core of a star runs out of hydrogen, it will contract under gravity, becoming a red giant, then a white dwarf, then eventually exploding. Although this process takes a few billion years, this is a short time in the context of star life, exploding into itself. In this song, Watsky cleverly personifies a star, comparing its sudden death to a suicidal and lonely human.

In Kurt Cobain’s suicide note, he wrote: “It’s better to burn out than to fade away.” He’s just one example of a star who killed himself with a gun shot to the head.