What is the meaning behind “Girl, I can buy your ass the world with my paystub”? HUMBLE. by Kendrick Lamar
- by imrk
- March 25, 2023
A paystub is a document given to an employee that shows the amount of money they earned and the amount that was removed for taxes. They are monetarily worthless, and buying the world is impossible, but Kendrick makes these assertions in keeping with the bombastic claim of the previous line. On Mike Will’s 2014 track, “Buy The World,” Kendrick says: My MO is zero, see commas, I promise In 2016, Kendrick was ranked ninth on the Forbes The World’s Highest-Paid Hip-Hop Acts 2016 “The Heart Part 4,” he mentions his total career earnings of over $30 million.