Making love all night is a common theme in music, from stadium rock jam “You Shook Me All Night Long” by AC/DC to Jay Z and Pharrell Williams ’s “Fuck All Night,” in which the two go back and forth singing: Let’s just – fuck all night! Yeah Until we both start yawnin
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What is the meaning behind “For y’all to reach these heights You gon’ need G3, 4, 5, 6 flights, sleep tight”? Drunk in Love by Beyoncé (Ft. JAY-Z)
Gulfstream Aerospace makes a family of business jets that include the G150, G280, G350, G450, G500, G550, G600, and G650. These are often colloquially shortened to G1-G6, as Jay does here. He compares the heights of their power and wealth to the heights private jets can reach, which is typically 41,000-45,000 feet. 92% of the …
What is the meaning behind “I’m Ike Turner, turn up, baby, no, I don’t play “Now eat the cake, Anna Mae” Said, “Eat the cake, Anna Mae,” I’m nice”? Drunk in Love by Beyoncé (Ft. JAY-Z)
Hov caused a lot of controversy with this lyric. Ike Turner’s wife, Tina Turner released a film based on her life story in 1993 that included a scene in which Ike, addressing Tina as Anna Mae, her birthname, enjoins her to eat the cake, shoving it into Tina’s face when she won’t eat it. Many …
What is the meaning behind “Catch a charge, I might Beat the box up like Mike in ’97, I bite”? Drunk in Love by Beyoncé (Ft. JAY-Z)
Mike Tyson famously bit off Evander Holyfield’s ear during a boxing match on June 28, 1997 . Jay has similar intentions in the bedroom, simultaneously using “box” as the sport and slang for vagina, while alluding to cunnilingus with the “bite.” Tyson is also from Brooklyn, so Hov feels a hometown connection to him and …
What is the meaning behind “Foreplay in a foyer, fucked up my Warhol”? Drunk in Love by Beyoncé (Ft. JAY-Z)
Jay’s been known to buy expensive paintings , but, like their Louis sheets , he’s apparently okay with those expensive art works getting damaged in the name of love. See “Picasso, Baby”: Yellow Basquiat in my kitchen corner Go ‘head, lean on that shit Blue, you own it Also notice the “F” alliteration: “ F …
What is the meaning behind “Know I sling Clint Eastwood Hope you can handle this curve, uh”? Drunk in Love by Beyoncé (Ft. JAY-Z)
Eastwood starred in Trouble with the Curve , a film that narrates the story of a man who goes on a journey to finish his career as a baseball scout. The movie’s title, along with this lyric, play on the idiom of “throwing a curve[ball],” meaning something unexpected that trick/surprises someone in the same way …
What is the meaning behind “Talkin’ ’bout you be reppin’ that Third I wanna see all the shit that I heard”? Drunk in Love by Beyoncé (Ft. JAY-Z)
Third refers to Third Ward, Houston, the district that Beyoncé is from, adding to the Houston motif throughout the album. Bey reps that Houston Third Ward hard: She was even credited as “Third Ward Trill” on Jay Z’s Magna Carta… Holy Grail and was referred to as “Miss Third Ward” in the intro to “Pretty …
What is the meaning behind “That D’USSÉ is the shit, if I do say so myself If I do say so myself, if I do say so myself”? Drunk in Love by Beyoncé (Ft. JAY-Z)
D’USSÉ is a Bacardi -produced line of cognac that Hov is a part-owner of and endorses, and helped launch back in 2012. He uses its homophone “do say” as a play on words, likely inspired by the fact that he was drinking it while recording this verse; and as “a business, man” he is of …
What is the meaning behind “I’m nice right now, hold up”? Drunk in Love by Beyoncé (Ft. JAY-Z)
“Hold up” is one of many non-lexicals Jay uses as his signature throughout his music. Another that he is more famous for is the “Uh,” which he says numerous times in Holy Grail . Listening to his catalog of songs, you’ll hear different versions of this on multiple songs, be it the “Ugh ugh” that …