smokin' means he’s destroyed his attachment to. photo mat is a flat surface that displays photos. A phone is a flat surface that displays photos. goldfish fits with the continued pornography references as women who are waiting open mouth for a cumshot look like gold fishes.

Goldfish is slang for cocain/crack and or assortment of date rape drugs. But it could also reference memory loss (people who can be imagined to have goldfish brains are people with poor memory), as drugs can often cause it. Especially the ones you smoke like crystal meth for example.

The last track was “Lil boy” which is a reference to one of the two nuclear bombs dropped on Japan. Ride seems to reference the previous song’s theme with the “Nuclear wind at my back” line.

another phone reference as phones emit radiation. if he puts the nuclear wind at his back that means he’s put technology addiction behind him.

Also in the context of the song which is drug addiction the negative effects of the drug addiction push him away from wanting to do it but as stated in the beginning of the verse he’s been doing it too long to get away without consequence,making getting away at all less appealing.

Wind at you back, meaning things are going your way as it makes it easier to run, nuclear wind implies running from destruction so ironically the destruction he is running from is also propelling him away from it. But that would also mean he is close enoughto likely not to get away without injury

Wind at my back is a euphemism for when things are going your way. When you are running and the wind is at your back it pushes you along, as apposed to when you are running into the wind and running is harder.

Fucking hell, I always understood “I got a blackhead in my lip” LMAO

aaronevera the official lyrics are “black hat”, however, I think it doubles as being “black cat” as well. So you’d need to find a context between both phrases

It’s more likely that MCR is saying “I got a black cat/It might live/It’s got a black hat/it goes big”

The insight into black hat denoting malcontent is apt, along with a hacking angle that is common within Death Grips' lyrics, there is an accentuation on the ‘K’ sound that for English speakers is more often placed on the first letter of a new word.

The line, “I got a black cat/It might live”, may be making a nod toward’s Schrodinger’s Cat, the paradox in which there is such a degree of uncertainty as to whether the cat is alive or dead that the cat could be logically be both dead and alive simultaneously. This nod further supports the claim that the line is actually “I got a black cat/It might live”, as it makes a clear reference when talking about a cat rather than a hat.

He’s gotten clout from what he does, and he’s just letting people know that power is cheap. Getting power is not as hard as you think and its not as rewarding as you’d think.

I feel like MC ride is talking about how everyone is this world chases after power, they build themselves up on it and rides just saying how pointless it all is because of how Cheap it is.

wait is it not dead?

I think that “did” in this case does not refer to D.I.D., the condition, but instead refers to a term which means to kill, or to be killed. Often times in movies, a person contracting a hit man will tell them to “do” a certain target when talking to the hit man about his job in a non-private place, so as not to draw attention to their conversation. This has been played off for laughs in the movie “Beavis and Butthead Do America”, where the two titular characters, known for their stupidity, are mistaken for hit men and asked to “do” their contractor’s gorgeous wife. Beavis and Butthead think instead that the man is offering them to have sex with his wife, instead of killing her.

This interpretation of the lyric implies Ride killed his vulnerability, which is represented by the bluebird.

In addition, the usage of D.I.D, the condition, does not make sense grammatically or contextually. If Ride truly meant D.I.D., he might have said something along the lines of “It has did”, “it got did”, or something along those lines. The important part is you cannot yourself become/be D.I.D., you can only develop it or have it.