Answer: It's not about golf clubs, it's about a kind of samurai club called a Kanabo. This club (or really a long staff) does have tiny nubs. The better to bash you with. The previous line in the song talks about making a Samurai movie.
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Colored-people time (or CPT) is the tendency for black people to be late – this is often considered a racial slur. Though the last line implies that this is not the fault of the black people, but rather the racist white people that want to see blacks get stuck in a line that makes them late.
Kanye has a hidden track called “Late” — all about being late — on his classic sophomore album, Late Registration
Yo, I’ll be there in five minutes, five hours later
I’ll be there in five minutes
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Reference to the film Monty Python and the Holy Grail, known for its quotability. Weird Al Yankovic would use a similar line in his song “White & Nerdy” (which both MC Chris and Weird Al happen to be).
Well one of these days, I'm gonna pack heat
Your brains on the wall, my face
My face on TV MC Chris – Geek
Your brains on the wall, my face
My face on TV MC Chris – Geek
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Gonna get a set of better clubs
Gonna find the kind with tiny nubs
Just so my irons aren't always flying off the back-swing Barenaked Ladies – One Week
Gonna find the kind with tiny nubs
Just so my irons aren't always flying off the back-swing Barenaked Ladies – One Week
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There are two theories about this line. First, some manufacturers of golf clubs (including irons) create their handles out of material with “tiny nubs” to improve the grip and prevent golfers from losing their clubs.
Additionally, ,it may be about a kind of samurai club called a Kanabo. This club (or really a long staff) does have tiny nubs. The better to bash you with. The previous line in the song talks about making a Samurai movie.
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Sting, one of the principle members of the rock group The Police, is known for practicing tantra, a spiritual Hindu practice with a heavy focus on sexual intercourse.
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‘Ye, always ready to show off his knowledge of fashion, name drops Martin Margiela, a Belgian designer. A Margiela blazer like this will set you back about $1,850. While Gucci and LV are considered high-end for drug dealers and rappers, Margiela clothes are considered pretty chic even for fashion insiders.
The reference to high-end fashion contrasts dramatically with mentions of drugs and killas. “Margiela” is also a near-homophone of “Magilla”, so listeners who don’t know about high-end fashion will think Kanye is name-dropping a famous cartoon gorilla to pair with the “going gorillas” line. This demonstrates Kanye’s knowledge of both the high-brow and low-brow.
Kanye mentions “What’s that jacket, Margiela?” then follows up with “Doctors say im the illest”. Referring to Margiela’s company of his workers that’re told to wear lab coats to resemble doctors or scientists.
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Congrats, Congrats kanye , You like Apes and expensive jackets. Signed dearly, Skete and Kim.
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ma gilet is also “my jacket” in french and sounds rly close to margiela, I thought he was saying that for the longest time