Following, finding, trying on and buying the latest ‘trends’ is time consuming (and limits the time you have to think about other things).

The image I get from this line, is the line up for a fitting room:

People buy anything. As long as it is ‘cool’.

There is the sense in this line that you buy what is put on the market not what you necessarily want or need.

Consumerism has long had intentional underpinnings, rather than just happening. At the end of World War II, there was a conscious effort to get people to consume more to absorb excess production from factories.

see: Century of the Self
about how corporations could make people want things they didn’t need by systematically linking mass-produced goods to their unconscious desires.

1. Someone ready to ‘ride’ for their people.

2. Ties in with the steamroller imagery from verse one – someone who flattens everything in its path

3. A cop on patrol – ties in with the last line ‘cop a car’

4. A roller is also slang for a Rolls Royce

Also it refers to the fact that he’s a high roller, as in he’s got a lot of money and spending it (like he mentioned in the previous line by copping a car).

Play on the saying “Standing on the Shoulders of Giants” which, in the modern interpretation, means someone who achieves new heights by building on those who came before them.

In Pusha T’s version he has reached great “heights” pumping drugs to 20,000 drug addicts.

To put this in context this would be the equivalent to controlling the drug trade in a city the size of Glasgow in Scotland.

Scottish drug trafficker Thomas McGraw controlled trafficking activities worth approximately $22.5 million dollars.

The Emirates Palace is in Abu Dhabi and is a super luxury hotel/ another tacky palace in the desert (depending on your taste & perspective). It is the second most expensive hotel ever built and is owned by the government who still have a lot more of that ‘Arab Money’ than neighboring emirate Dubai.

There is officially no unrest in Abu Dhabi because they have the world’s third highest GDP per capita. However they might want to learn some lessons from what has happened to Saudi Arabia (growing population with high youth unemployment) – that oil isn’t going to last forever.

For example – Nina Atwood

quote:
half korean. half white. american citizen. never fit in. been mistaken for many idenities. been told i do not look “american”. have had non-asian people talk to me with authority on things asian as if they know better. not recognized as asian but i am defintely not only american. getting older= want to know more fully about other half. plan on living in korea within the next year to explore equally important side of myself.

Lupe with Jessica Biel with whom he climbed Mount Kilimanjaro. He says their relationship was strictly platonic.

Well I would:

Who can forget ‘Kick Push’?

Linen which is not pressed. A nice relaxed look and cool fit for the summer.