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Nightlife is a common theme in Morrissey’s best-known songs. This perhaps catches him at his most positive. Compare it with “Panic”, or even “How Soon Is Now?”:

There’s a club, if you’d like to go
You could meet somebody who really loves you
So you go, and you stand on your own
And you leave on your own
And you go home
And you cry
And you want to die

An alternative interpretation – where “take me out” means “kill me” – is popular, but less parsimonious than reading it as a bittersweet love song. The next lines then become a vision of afterlife, something referred to in Asleep as a “better world”.

The people who are “young and alive” could be everyone who have escaped their lives on Earth via death. In this morbid interpretation, it takes death’s freedom from life’s problems to start feeling alive.

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Wale has so much money he might as well be John Schnatter the founder of Papa John’s Pizza with all that cheese.

Clever lines from “Wordplay Le” here. Dominoes is another pizza company, so the knocking of a domino could either be the actual game itself or from a pizza delivery person.

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haha this line wasn’t about you big homie…I’m gonna put the explanation for this line in soon…it will literally be the best explanation on the Rap Genius site…period

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Not only is Ye staying healthy, but in todays society of cheap fast food if someone is eating healthy and organic then they are also wealthy enough to do so

This line is possibly a metaphor for eating out a skinny (“vegetarian”) girl of mixed ethnicity (“brown” + “rice”; the latter, in this context, meaning “white”). This can be somewhat confirmed with the terms used in the following line.

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The man has been driving all night and now suffers from road hypnosis otherwise known as “driving without attention mode” (DWAM). This usually occurs during long drives on the highway where the scenery never changes and you just enter a zone of unconscious driving.

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Reference/play on words to the Heems line

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A reference to the Das Racist song “Michael Jackson”.

Apparently Victor doesn’t feel like spitting.

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Living Single was a show that aired during the 90’s and many referred to it as the African-American version of Friends.

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Heems drops bombs of knowledge like the bottoms of the tops of Snapple caps

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“Cracker” used in the derogatory sense of referring to a Caucasian

Heems is smacking white dudes back in their place

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