A reference to Lady Patra’s song “Queen Of The Pack.” This is clever as there are usually four queens in a deck. Iggy, like Patra, is the Queen of Queens.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Zxnlhy8c_ys

Classics take time before they are given the title.

I wish I was a teenager in 1997…But with The New Classic, I want younger generations to look back on what we’re doing now and say, ‘I wish I was a teenager in 2014.’ I come from an era of kids who are always being told that what we make is not classic. But my album says to people my age, ‘Don’t devalue that we can be culturally significant – because we can be.’

Iggy explains the ideology behind The New Classic briefly, here. This track is meant to prepare you for the rest of the album. Iggy recognizes that she and this album are amazing, and even if you don’t know it yet, you will once she blows up and you’re forced to see it.

Bonnie and Clyde were American outlaws and robbers from the Dallas area who traveled the central United States with their gang during the Great Depression.

Eventually they were chased down and killed.

Rooks vs. Pawn is the most common endgame in Chess. There are many strategies involving this situation.

Pawns are the most simple, common, lowest ranking chess piece.

Parker the Pawn v. the World.

The symbolism is that pawns are people or things used to advance another’s goals aka they are being used.

On Twitter, users are allowed to follow other users in order to be kept up to date on whatever they are doing.

However, Skiz states that he doesn’t follow anyone’s lead–instead he is constantly creating and reinventing trends his own way. He compares this process to that of wearing or breaking in new shoes.

These quotes are beautifully delivered by Cassie and flaunts her acting ability and prowess.

The quotes are taken from Shakespeare’s last work The Tempest, which are said by the character Miranda:

How beauteous mankind is! O brave new world,
That has such people in't!
― “The Tempest Act 5 Scene 1” by William Shakespeare