‘Ye’s talks about dining with American magazine Vogue’s editor-in-chief Anna Wintour in an introduction to a group of lines devoted to Kanye’s love of fashion, a common motif in his music.

Kanye quotes Ma$e twice in this hook. West has in the past called the Harlem artist his favorite rapper (though we all know Kanye is Kanye’s favorite rapper).

Here he borrows a line from Ma$e’s “Lookin' at Me” (itself borrowed from LL Cool J’s “Illegal Search”) possibly questioning society’s difficulties, and the fact that finding employment is becoming increasingly difficult for young African-Americans

There’s three possible interpretations:

1. Times are literally hard for people right now. Money is unobtainable, pigeonholing the young African-Americans, and causing them to feel powerless.
2. He could also be questioning why he is being hated for his money. Kanye knows his personality has changed; namely because of money. Therefore, if the people hate who he naturally is, it may be a source of pain for him. Furthermore, perhaps this exhibits a softer side of Kanye, who shields himself from the truth under the cover of “money”.
3. A metaphorical braggadocio saying “Im so damn rich,” insinuating that any additional amount of money would feel basically nonexistent.

Members of Roc Nation, Jay-Z’s subdivision of Sony Music, commonly refer to the division of the label as a ‘family’, and occasionally ‘familia,’ or variations of it, meaning ‘family’ in Spanish, Italian, and Latin, and commonly used as a term to refer to the mafia or other organised crime.

Roc La Familia is also the name of Jay-Z’s fifth album. However, it was a Roc-A-Fella group effort, as ¾ of the tracks featured other artists. It was also the album on which Kanye kicked open a door into the Roc, by producing the song This Can’t Be Life.

Bronson muses about the things that come with being high, this time the famed ‘munchies’. While normally, people eat chips or small snacks when they get said munchies, Bronson is much more high-class than that.

Instead, he opts to down Polenta, a grainy bread-like treat made of cornmeal boiled in soup stock. Polenta is a delicacy in his motherland, Albania, usually hand-made, and he uses it here as a status symbol.

• Dolo is an amalgamation of the words ‘Doing it solo’.

Bronson likes being alone, because he grew up like that. Furthermore, being alone, with little-to-no noise, is better for him that to have to listen to someone or something.

The D'elegance is a luxury addition to the already-luscious and iconic Cadillac Coupe De Ville.

Bronson paints the picture of him rolling down the streets in one, looking even more ‘elegant’ than the name of the car.

He continues the wordplay of the previous line with another double entendre.

• First, the ‘stuffing with cabbage’ can refer to a way to prepare the aforementioned lamb, adding some extra flavour to an even more exotic dish. The ‘smoking’ can refer to the process of smoking food, used to add a little more flavour to some meats.

• Second, this line indubitably talks about the process of rolling and smoking marijuana. The joint is ‘stuffed’ with leaves, and then ‘twisted’ off, and finally smoked.