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“Hyphy” is a hip hop genre and culture originating from Oakland/the Bay Area in the late 90s/early 2000s. It is similar to the Southern “crunk” movement. The term is derived from “hyper” or “hyperactive.”

Too $hort, the artist sampled in this song, is associated with the hyphy movement and aesthetic, so this line is Sweetie giving props to Too $hort and the original track.

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Perhaps a reference to the word “onomatopoeia” in the following line, a notoriously difficult word to spell.

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An advance is payment given to an artist before they begin working on a project, say, a book or an album.

Nicki plans to spend her new advance on a Bugatti, an expensive sports car.

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Trixie first explained the meaning behind “Goner” when she premiered it live during “Full Coverage Fridays” in 2020:

I found that as I got “successful” or like moved away or whatever people from my hometown, people who I was friends with, their opinions of me had sort of changed without me really knowing about it. To the point where I would come home and be like “It’s just nice that everyone just here treats me totally normal.” and people would be like “Oh no, people are mad at you.” […] Somebody said to me that I guess the word on the street was that I was just like a goner and I don’t know why I just ran with that.

In 2023, in a Vice video recorded before The Blonde & Pink Albums released, Trixie explained:

The one thing about moving away from Wisconsin and moving to L.A. was: the more, like, successful I got, the more I could come home and hear, like, people’s opinions of me had changed. Somebody was like: “Oh yeah, she’s a total goner,” meaning, like, live in L.A., sell out, whatever. And that just like stuck with me, so then I wrote this song called “Goner.”

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Kanye originally planned on calling out the woman this song is addressed to by name, but realizes that there will be no need for that after listening to the context clues in his lyrics (our money is on ex-girlfriend Amber Rose).

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Continuing the theme of comic book superheroes, Chris bemoans the fact that he’s like Spider-Man… but before the spider bite and superhuman powers.

This song was released one year after the Spider-Man film, in which Peter Parker drops his lunch tray in front of the sparkling love interest, Mary Jane.

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The character Peter Venkman (portrayed by Bill Murray) from the Ghostbusters film series has a backpack that sucks up ghosts. Pretty “tricked out” if you ask me.

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Sailor Moon was a Japanese cartoon (or anime) which featured a team of long-legged crime fighting high school girls. Which, of course, turns him on.

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Post is rich enough that he can afford to have everything customized (tailor fitted, monogrammed, windows tinted, etc.).

Customs is the department responsible for checking luggage and packages arriving from international locations (across borders). This line is a pun on customized/customs at the border.

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Yeezy would later come back to this line on Watch the Throne, on “Niggas in Paris.”

If you believe the song’s a metaphor for drug addiction, this is the moment when he first takes it in a bathroom and he feels better than he ever has before… Of course, it won’t end well.

This also drives home how the “marrying a porn star” thing really is just a big fantasy and that the reality is a little less glamorous.

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