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Maybe you’re rich because you got money from your rich parents. An escalator is a machine doing the work for you to get to the top whereas a ladder requires physical effort and is both slower & more dangerous. Most middle class family bread winners have to climb a “corporate ladder”.

She “falls in love” with another guy who just treats her like a piece of trash, with the word next stating that this probably happened many times before. She gets all depressed again so she’s back doing lines to cope with the pain, who is also on crack and probably introduced it to her.

A triple entendre. He is numb from having too many women, as Ménages are relationships with three people at the same time, so Cole is sleeping with two women, and the power and the dreams he was promised led him. The fame corrupted him and he is trapped in this lifestyle. The other two meanings being he is numb from the “Minaj’s” like Nicki Minaj (a purely mainstream rapper). The other meaning could be he is numb from the Ménage à Trois which is a cheap wine. And since it is a triple entendre, the line is now a Ménage.

These are the lines about the fear of becoming someone you hate, a common J. Cole theme. He hates you so much he believes that you are true evil and that what he has been talking about this whole time is people just like you. He has referenced this before in songs such as “Can I Holla At Ya” on his Truly Yours EP.

He pronounces it like “west side” and in his video, even makes w’s with his hands.

Reminds me of G-Dragon’s Crayon: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t3ULhmadHkg, Koreans probably don’t know that he could be also saying “get your cray on” (cray = crazy).

In an episode of “Infinite Challlenge” — a popular Korean variety show — Psy lifts his arms up to reveal his sweaty armpits. Wet armpits = Wet Psy.

smoothly — used often in describing how smooth a drink goes down sometimes or how Psy acts around the multiple women in the M/V.