I dropped my new shit, it sound like the best of
A&R's lookin' like, "Pssh, we messed up." Kanye West – Diamonds from Sierra Leone
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Whenever Yeezy gets labeled as “finished”, he returns with new material that sounds even better than his last.
This line would later be proved true after the Taylor Swift incident, when everyone said Kanye’s career was over – this happened:
He’s also calling back to Last Call, when referring to the A&Rs (the “Artists and repertoire” division of a record label; responsible for scouting artists and overseeing artistic development). In “Last Call”, he mentions how the A&Rs messed up by overlooking and underestimating his talent (certainly as a rapper, if not necessarily as a producer).
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This line is actually scientifically correct. Most commercial airliners fly in the lower levels of the stratosphere, while weather occurs directly below in the troposphere.
Looks like someone paid attention in science!
Shitted on 'em
Man, I just shitted on 'em
Shitted on 'em
Put your number twos in the air if you did it on 'em
Shitted on 'em
Man, I just shitted on 'em
Shitted on 'em
Put your number twos in the air if you did it on 'em Nicki Minaj – Did It On'em
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In order to more easily distinguish what toddlers have to do in the bathroom, 1 is used to refer to peeing while 2 is for pooping.
This is in reference to the “shitted on ‘em” line; Nicki is just doing this for the kids, y'all.
Also a pun on chucking up the “deuces”; if you put two fingers in the air, it’s a peace sign.
It’s a metaphor for having “shitted on” her haters and competition’s entire career (Lil Kim to be specific).
Additionally, Nicki blows stereotypes of femininity out of the water. Though the album cover shows her as a Barbie – plastic, unreal, and therefore incapable of “shitting” at all – her vulgar, scatalogical lyrics debunks the stereotype that women are inanimate objects, that women don’t shit, and that women exist for others. Here, she proclaims her total triumph over her haters while revelling in her (feminine) power and talent.
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The YKK Group is a Japanese zipper manufacturer. So Big Boi wants to be all over this girl’s zipper when he’s unzipping it, just like the YKK logo.
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This girl hasn’t had sex in a while and is looking for some Vitamin D(ick).
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They even praise drug dealers for continuing to boost the economy during the recession
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Don’t blame Kanye – blame the liqour!
“Unfaithful” could mean faith as in religion (he just mentioned his Jesus piece), as well as staying faithful to one woman.
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A play on Jay-Z’s debut album, Reasonable Doubt
