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A K-Cutter is an afro Pick. During this time Cube was rockin' the Fro, so he would be carrying one of these.
Peep the next line:
Uhh got the Afro
Because of its lightness, the finest Angel food cake is not cut with a knife because the knife could compress the air out of the cake. Thus, an Angel food cake cutter is shaped like a comb with a number of long teeth that cut the cake by individually piercing it.
In 1972, a man named Antonio Romani began selling a comb either based on or simply a re-purposing of the Angel food cake cutter as a hair comb for Black hair.
“Anthony R. Romani…invented and obtained a patent on an Afro Rake Comb called the ‘Cake Cutter’ in March, 1972 and began mass production of the product which was in great demand during the 1970’s.” (Antonio’s Manufacturing’s “About Us” page)
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Hot means both “erotic” and “fashionable” here. Yeezy’s commenting on the phenomenon where 2 girls will often make out purely for the attention it gets.
The words used here are notable as well: whilst girl on girl action is hot for the male viewer, as soon as they have sex with a strap-on, then they are subject to the derogatory term dyke.
It’s odd for Yeezy to set himself up as the arbiter of female sexual identity, especially because his former beau Amber Rose was often rumored to be a lesbian/bisexual herself.
In the context of the song, Kanye is comparing casual lesbians who put on a show to pretend rappers who “ain’t about that life”. In contrast, a true “dyke” is motivated by their genuine tastes like rappers who rap about their actual lives.