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A tab is a way to store and take acid or LSD. Chance’s music is like a high for your ears and is heavily influenced by drugs, especially this song. Later in his career, he made a whole project centered around this idea, fittingly called Acid Rap.
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Chance has fans at his shows who show him love all the time. While this takes on a literal meaning, it can also be metaphorical for people cheering him on for the wrongs done to him over his suspension. Nowadays, he’s doing a good ass job!
From Santas to Grandmas to Gameboys and cell phones Chance the Rapper – Nostalgia
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This represents the various stages and relevant things of his childhood. You used to be in diapers waiting on Santa Claus, but eventually you move on to big places with important implications.
Even Elmo moved on too:
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While some women are waiting on his love, some need a bit of convincing before they do it with Ush. On this track, Usher explains just what his little friend was made for. Why wouldn’t we expect a track like this from a man who invented sex?
'Cause all you motherfuckers
That go to your grave with that name on your brain
'Cause jealousy and recklessness is NOT, something to die for 2Pac (Ft. Dave Hollister) – Something 2 Die 4 [Interlude]
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This is what it all leads up to. At that festival the gun Pac was carrying fell onto the road, and, when picked up, accidentally fired and a stray bullet struck a six year old boy named Qa'id Walker Teal in the head and killed him. According to friends, Shakur was inconsolable about the boy’s death, which he memorialized in this very track.
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While Usher can have a rough exterior, he once again showcases his softer side for this cut. It’s subtle tone with the sexual message hidden in it compares to a more recent hit of his, “Good Kisser”. In an interview with EW, Usher said:
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We know 10 Day is a classic, on God Chance the Rapper (Ft. Akenya & Alex Wiley) – Windows
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The Village supports Chance and know that 10 Day will go down in history as one Chance’s best projects. Chance ended up breaking through with 10 Day and now is one of the top rappers in the game, so it did work.
So fuck you if I failed, and fuck you if I passed Chance the Rapper (Ft. Akenya & Alex Wiley) – Windows
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Chance disfavors any math class he has taken, no matter the outcome of his performance in them. Good thing Chano stuck to rapping then, so now we all are winning with his choice. He also gives out a “fuck you” to all his math teachers: cursing out the teachers who failed him, and taunting the teachers who he passed.
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Those are two ways to smoke weed. But if you spliff it the joint will be neat as in classy, mixed with tobacco.
Some people smoke spliffs because a joint makes them “stupid” but they can still act sane and “classy” with a spliff.
In England, it’s the Chavs who say “spliff” It’s just our slang terminology. I’m English, and personally, in my family, we call it a joint.