Mez wants to rock that extra nice stuff, namely that of Belgian designer Martin Margiela, some Louis Vuitton and some Christian Louboutin to boot. He ain’t forgetting his roots though, so his girl better throw in some of Nike’s Air Jordans and Vapors.

Of course one minus one equals zero, which is none, a homophone of nun. It’s his way of saying that he’s rather unique.

They’re plenty of hot, well-known women trying to get in with Mez but he ain’t in the game for ‘em. These hoes/hose even claim they’ll somehow help him advance, but they’re distractions and not welcome in the garden (career) he’s growing (building). Hey, at least he told them politely, right?

Maybe he’ll let them in after he and his crew really starts living comfortable off the work he let loose (his rain, probably The Paraplegics or The King’s Khrysis) during his reign.

The big choice: either link up with the random dime or stay true to your girl back home. But how’ll she know? He could easily hit these dimes up a bit like Floyd Mayweather did Arturo Gatti in ‘05, without getting caught. May weather is also a play on “make weather”; he makes the girls wet.

Patois is great isn’t it? This serves as the perfect introduction to Ye’s downright pompous verse:

Well it is a weeping and a moaning and a gnashing of teeth in the dancehall, and who no have teeth gwine run pon them gums […]

G.O.O.D Music’s colleagues will be up in arms thanks to the level of music Kanye’s label is putting out, regardless of how well they’re doing themselves.

[…] caw when time it comes to my sound, which is the champion sound, the bugle has blown the many times, and it still have one more time left, caw the amount of stripe weh deh pon our shoulder

Air horns and bugles get blown during clashes between Jamaican sounds (think DJ clashes), as is G.O.O.D’s (the champions) as they start waging war on the industry’s standards. That’s more amazing music to come when people wondered if they could do it again. Why? Because they’re that good (stripes on shoulders, think military rankings).

As revealed in an interview with Hip-Hop Wired, Chicago legend The Twilight Tone dug up this sample of Fuzzy Jones, a legend in dancehall for his work on dubplates and in sound clashing culture.

Then we just got to talking and I just thought, ‘What could I do that would just be counter establishment? Or counter cliché, like what could I put on there.?‘ For some reason, I heard that dude [in the beginning of the track], I heard him, I had a vision. I heard that ‘Well it’s the weeping and the moaning’ and I was like ‘Oh!‘ Then it just literally, I hate to sound so like comic book or some sh-t, but literally I was like ‘Oh my God,’ like I had chills. So then, I was invited to the studio. I talked him, maybe that was Friday, or Saturday, We met up.

“The next day he invited me to the studio, and he was there and a couple of his crew, and I played the sample and everybody froze, everybody paused. Like everybody. It’s just that everybody was keyed to it. and Ye was like ‘Oh snap,‘ and he started hitting the buttons on it. The rest is, as you would say, history or our story.”

This particular intro comes from Dust A Soundboy by Super Beagle, released originally in 1996. It came out on Technique Record’s version of the Stalag 17 Riddim, which was originally produced in 1973 by Winston Riley and has heralded over 300 songs.

In this case, Kanye’s rivals will be tearing their hair out and cursing themselves for not being able to compete with G.O.O.D. Music, Hip-Hop’s champion sound.

The good folks over at Large Up did a great write up on the Dust a Sound Boy that you can read here, and also put up one of the few photos on Mr. Jones.

Still on the faithful couch, Kendrick starts thinking about the disparities in the system. Kanye said it best on Gorgeous:

Face it, Jerome get more time than Brandon
And at the airport they check all through my bag
And tell me that it’s random

No matter what excuses come up, Blacks often seem to get more jail time and harsher sentences than their light-skinned counterparts. Age? It doesn’t matter enough to them to shorten your sentence. As Fatman Scoop says on Saigon’s Station Identification (Intro):

All you got to do, is be slipping when the P-I-G-S come through – the Party Invite Givers (Police). When they come through if you are not paying attention, oh they’ll definitely come pick you up. As a matter of fact, the blacker you are the easier it is for you to get in! So if you are a nigger you will have no problem getting the Party Invite Givers to send your ass right off to the party (Prison).

Catching a fade normally means shooting someone in the head with a bullet, but instead Kendrick’s shooting them there with knowledge and wisdom. His Bible is his weapon and he’s killing the ignorance with it. A fade is also a wide receiver route and you would put more than one cover on the man if he is repeatedly catching them.

He’s said in interviews that he’s been though a lot of Average Joe moments. Having Buick Regals pull up on him was probably one of them.