Abel shows off a red Lamborghini Aventador Superveloce, which costs Abel was the fifteenth highest paid artist in 2016, making nearly $55 million dollars after the release of his 2015 album, Beauty Behind The Madness, and the accompanying Madness tour. Since he makes the average person’s annual salary in just a week’s time, he can …
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What is the meaning behind “P1 cleaner than your church shoes, ah Milli point two just to hurt you, ah”? Starboy by The Weeknd (Ft. Daft Punk)
Abel references the $1.2 million McLaren P1, a car he was spotted driving earlier in 2016. It seems to be the same car he recieved as a gift during his post-Grammy party. Abel casually drops the outrageous price tag on the listener “just to” hurt us and leave a sting of jealousy as he continues …
What is the meaning behind “I’m tryna put you in the worst mood, ah”? Starboy by The Weeknd (Ft. Daft Punk)
Though the song carries a palpable swagger, Abel states immediately that this is not a song to make us feel good. By proclaiming later in the hook, “Look what you’ve done” he implicates his consumers/audience, suggesting we’re complicit in cosigning him to the material excess and emotional disconnection he’s built his career off of. The …
What is the meaning behind “[Verse 1]”? Starboy by The Weeknd (Ft. Daft Punk)
Sonically, the most obvious feature of this first verse is the -ah sound which terminates each line; this persistent, almost unnatural repetition becomes the backbone of the verse, anchoring all of the rhymes which occur around it. The sound returns in the background vocals of the chorus (“hah hah hah”). But this is just the …
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What is the meaning behind “[Produced by 40 & Drake]”? Fuckin’ Problems by A$AP Rocky (Ft. 2 Chainz, Drake & Kendrick Lamar)
Drake’s longtime collaborator 40 handles the production here, but Drake is also given a producer credit under his C. Papi moniker. The song’s beat interpolates a snippet of unreleased vocals from Drake’s girl Aaliyah, from a song called “Quit Hatin’.” The vocals run throughout, but can be heard most clearly in the song’s instrumental intro. …
What is the meaning behind “Halle Berry, hallelujah Holler back, I’ll do ya, beast”? Fuckin’ Problems by A$AP Rocky (Ft. 2 Chainz, Drake & Kendrick Lamar)
On his 2012 song “Money Trees,” Kendrick says : It go Halle Berry or hallelujah Pick your poison, tell me what you doing It’s unclear which line was recorded first, since both songs were released around the same time. Kendrick explained the “Money Trees” line in a verified Genius annotation : You can either go …
What is the meaning behind “Don’t get involved, listen what the crystal ball say”? Fuckin’ Problems by A$AP Rocky (Ft. 2 Chainz, Drake & Kendrick Lamar)
Crystal balls usually warn people of the dangers to come, much like Kendrick warns rappers not to mess with him or they may suffer the same fate as the those in the previous line. Pretty fucking prescient of K-dot, really, a year before he shook the hip-hop world with similar words on his “Control” verse. …
What is the meaning behind “Kill ’em all”? Fuckin’ Problems by A$AP Rocky (Ft. 2 Chainz, Drake & Kendrick Lamar)
Kendrick pronounces “Kill ‘em all” in a way that sounds similar to “K. Lamar.” While Kendrick hadn’t called himself K. Lamar on a song when Fuckin’ Problems was released, he would go on to use it a couple of times, first on Mortal Man : Would you judge me a drug-head or see me as …
What is the meaning behind “That mean your friends-es need be up to par See, my standards are pampered by threesomes tomorrow (Mm)”? Fuckin’ Problems by A$AP Rocky (Ft. 2 Chainz, Drake & Kendrick Lamar)
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 …