What is the meaning behind “That mean your friends-es need be up to par See, my standards are pampered by threesomes tomorrow (Mm)”? Fuckin’ Problems by A$AP Rocky (Ft. 2 Chainz, Drake & Kendrick Lamar)
- by imrk
- April 13, 2023
Kendrick is going to have threesomes with bad women in the future so the girl he’s with today better have friends that meet up to his standards. Also a play on words with par and threesomes which are both golf terms. Additionally, these two lines (along with the previous two) are rapped in a triplet meter as opposed to the duplet meter in the rest of the verse, creating a possible (unintentional) play on “three"somes. The reason these lines, starting with “AKA,” stand out is that Kendrick has switched over to a poetic meter known as “anapestic tetrameter,” or a repeated pattern of “short-short-LONG” syllables. This is pretty rare in rap: another good example is Eminem on “The Way I Am.” Anapestic tetrameter occurs more commonly in comic poetry like Dr. Seuss or Twas the Night Before Christmas.