Serge Gainsbourg, french singer, songwriter and composer had an affair with the 50’s sex-symbol Brigitte Bardot. He used to write songs for her on a short period of time. Even if it wasn’t officially announced since she was married to Sach, it was clearly obvious their relation wasn’t strickly professional. Serge Gainsbourg wrote a song about their “break-up”, called Initials B.B.

For some people, a computer makes up for the lack of friendship, family. It keeps our mind away from thinking we’re alone and/or we make virtual friendships.

French women have painted the portrait of the one, called in the USA, “the guy with a filled wallet” and we demand that it is displayed in its place, at the Louvre.

Louvre is a one of the most famous french museum. A lot of extremely valuable historical piece of art, like the one and only Mona Lisa are exposed there.

• metaphor comparing herself to a CPU:
  Flash memory is very similar to our memory: it has the ability to “forget”, stock information or keep his saved data when shut down (sleeps). Therefore, this line means time doesn’t exist for her, “the amount of knowledge she’ll obtain in her life is all she knows of time”.

• This part could refer to waiting forever that a download finishes, which ties in with the general subject of this song, computer addiction.

This speech here ties in with what a father would say to a kid neglecting his homeworks for practicing what he likes, whether it’s basket ball or rapping, which could end up being his job later.

The interesting part here is choosing the “artist life” or becoming an NBA player indeed requires “effort, commitment and sacrifice” while the father seems to think otherwise.

• The matrix is often used to describes someone on the effect of drugs due to the feeling of “being trapped in another world” some drugs do.

• But the matrix is also a computer-generated dream. Big Boi could refer to him/them being “stuck” online or on video games for several hours, like most stoners do.

Royce would tell her to do some thinking about why she still wants to be with him but he kept this thought hidden like his girlfriend keeps hidden her past. This “soul-searching” could enlighten her about her emotional dependence that makes her stick with R5'9" regardless of how much he’s drinking.

“Soul-searching” here could also refer to “look for another soul-mate”

When thinking about doing something, even if he’s aware of the consequence, he’ll still go through it and get the trouble he thought he would get.

Most of us are like that, we need to “feel” the consequences to really think about doing it again, whether it’s about cheating your wife, doing drugs, stealing or “walking through a fire”.

Also, this line reflects an addiction to pain, suffering which helps most artists to create.

‘dro, short for Hydro, slang word meaning strong weed that grows indoors with lights and chemicals.

Big Boi uses weed to express how long he’s online, barely a few minutes, like the time it takes to light and finish that L

Another way to see it is:

When you’re high you lose track of time. Hes alluding to the fact that he’s been online for so long he’s lost track of time as if hes high.

He’s pondering if the person in the previous line is a drag (drag queen, cross dresser) or a fag (bad term for homosexual). By saying “no homo” he seemingly is getting rid of that homosexual remark.

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