He’s instagramming pictures of his girl to shift the attention of his fans from the deeper and much realer persons issues in his life, as mentioned in the previous lines. Using a nice pretty mask to cover up some ugly things.

YAOWA is Ortiz’s trademark ad lib. In an interview with MTV, he said it has various meanings, but in a Slaughterhouse interview with XXL, he agreed that it means absolutely nothing. .

Sephiroth, the boss in Final Fantasy VII

In August 2011, two months before this cypher aired, InTouch Weekly “reported” that Will Smith and Jada Pinkett Smith had “decided to separate.” This story was picked up by numerous publications and gained traction swiftly before the couple released a joint statement that disputed the rumour.

Crooked I plays on the word Will, which is Smith’s given name and the term for a document someone writes that outlines what to do in the event of their death.

Will and Jada’s relationship has been heavily publicised and speculated on since 2011. In 2023, Jada revealed that they had secretly separated in 2016.

Yelawolf is playing on the Peter Piper nursery rhyme and saying the before you choose to come at him, you better come strapped (lyrically), because challenging him is like putting Nike’s on a cheetah, theoretically, as in they are already on the cheetah, then trying to race the cheetah, because Nike makes elite running shoes, therefore making the cheetah even faster. These lines are a culmination of the food- and animal-related imagery that runs throughout the second half of this verse (alphabet soup, potato, meatheads, cow, pepper, etc.)

Also another similarity to Yela’s verse on Worldwide Choppers, as there he also references Peter Piper.

In addition to Yela, other popular white rappers at the time included Eminem, Machine Gun Kelly, Mac Miller, Action Bronson, and Logic