What is the meaning behind “Twenty racks a table, cut from ebony Cut that ivory into skinny pieces Then she clean it with her face, man, I love my baby, ah”? Starboy by The Weeknd (Ft. Daft Punk)
- by imrk
- April 13, 2023
Apparently, Abel has upgraded from glass tables —his girl now snorts cocaine (“ivory”) off of $20,000 tables made from ebony, an expensive hardwood sourced from rare, endangered trees. Ivory and Ebony are both valuable materials often presented as opposites, as in the Paul McCartney and Stevie Wonder hit . The title of that song actually refers to a piano, which might be the fancy snorting surface Weeknd is referencing here. The “ivory” is being cut into “skinny pieces” as in cutting the coke into skinny lines. Abel is proud of his girlfriend who is able to “clean” the cocaine (by snorting it) with her face close to the edge of the table.