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A connection to the line above, and yet a set-up for the next sequence; He’s living life like Royalty and he’s asking himself what led to all of it. Was it hard work, or luck? He seems to explain further that its a combination of both.
When interpreted from Stephen Curry’s point of view, who was refered to in the line above. Curry was drafted into the NBA in 2009 and was chosen as the 7th overall pick by the Golden State Warriors.
Stephen himself is part of a family of basketball royalty. His father, Dell played in the NBA, and his brother, Seth plays for Duke. So Curry could be asking himself the same question as Donald so often asks himself on bti, why was he born with such talent, and opportunity for success, when there are others born into the opposite situation?
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Show promoters love Donald because he consistently sells out his shows, and they can charge whatever they want and his fans will still pay, especially after his Deep Web tour has been met with very positive reviews.
I fell in love, fell outta love, we both had options Travis Scott – Drugs You Should Try It
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Travis gets right into the theme of the song, using wordplay with “poppin'”
He and his girl are up at late hours having sex. As it connects to the next line, he meets women like this all the time. Once the high wears off, so do his feelings for her and like-wise.
“Poppin'” also refers to their habit of doing prescription drugs…
The rest of the verse seems to be a story about a specific girl that he did a lot of them with, was it the last time?
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They were stoners or “stones” at the club rolling on MDMA.
Also relates La Flame and his flame’s rockstar lifestyle to the lives of the Rock N' Roll era’s, Rolling Stones.
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He believes that he’s the starter of a new black movement, taking an unheard approach compared to other African-American rappers, who according to Bino, are out of style with their flows about selling drugs, running their gangs, etc.
Gambino also makes light of a stereotype that black males in the U.S. are in and out of prison by making reference to the popular Netflix series, “Orange Is The New Black”, in which the main character, Piper turns a new leaf and becomes tough as hell while incarcerated. “Oranges” is a nickname for a standard prison uniform.
This line also connects to the previous line where he says “do some research know my origins”. Donalds started out making videos with Derrick Comedy before 30 Rock, Community, his stand up comedy and rap. One of the Derrick Comedy videos titled “Dont Jerk Off to This” is about Donald Glover and others trying not to jerk off to a picture of a bowl of fruit. During the video the only fruit that is regarded as being sexy is the orange.
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He’s the new kind of black. Prisoners wears orange, so he might refer to black people like him who aren’t thugs.
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he also “dismissed” the belief that nothing rhymes with orange.