Qwel drops a piece of art here- this song, while describing obviously a piece of Graffiti, contains multitudes of underlying themes and references to the bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki. With lines such as the following two:

Instances of living under vivid lemon wings with quick orange flickers

Deep ash piles of salmon pink and sweet corn yellow
Rusty red dragon stabbed across my sky so subtle

Careful listeners are quick to pick up on these little connotations on the bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki. Like rappers, graffiti artists often use slang and one such expression is the act of bombing with graffiti. He compares his painting and it’s wide reaching effect to the influential Hiroshima event.

Listen and revel in an immaculate display of wordplay and metaphors.

The title of the song, “Vincent van Gogh Coke Ad”, refers to the vivid image Qwel paints. Vincent van Gogh is one of the best-known painters in the world which Qwel of course can link to all the graffiti puns. The “Coke Ad” part refers to the Hiroshima and Nagasaki bombing, the coke is used as a synonym for all the ashes and smoke one sees when there’s fire or an explosion. The song title only associated with the first verse, really.

In Qwel’s own words:

A response to the Jam Master Jay Dr Pepper commercial. When I saw it I was utterly disgusted by how fucking gay advertisers are. Would Coca Cola have had Vincent Van Goghs left ear in a Dr Pepper commercial? Not to compare Jam Master Jay and Vincent Van Gogh artistically, but credibly. The scene is very indicative of hip hops lack of legitimacy. An artist trades his life for his art, so I made a free Coke commercial with two different examples. First example is a painter, painting a picture of mans achievements until now (in reality its him putting his head to the canvas and blowing his brains out through the canvas). The second example is a pianist fighting with his piano, beating the shit out of it (in reality a man with his hands in the bathtub with a toaster being electrocuted). I wanted to literally paint a picture with words for the first part, and literally play the piano with my words on the second part.
Always,
Coca Cola