The other topic was deleted and for absolutely no reason. This is a legitimate thread, fuck faces.
The more I listen to this song the more I hear subtle references and hints towards a coming race war between blacks and whites.
"Feel it comin' in the air
Hear the screams from everywhere"
Whites being slaughtered.
"We are
Yeah I said it
We are
This is Roc Nation
Pledge your allegiance
Get y'all fatigues on
All black everything
Black cards, black cars
All black everything
And our girls are blackbirds
Ridin' with they dillingers
I'd get more in Depth
If you boys really real enough
This is la familia
I'll explain later"
Jay-Z is referencing a new all black nation, so get your fatigues on because the war is coming soon. All black, everything black. The blacks winning the race war against the whites. This is la familia, or the family. He is willing to tell you more if you make yourself known as a black supporter of the race war. Dillingers are their guns.
"Victory's within the mile
Almost there, don't give up now
Only thing that's on my mind
Is who's gonna run this town tonight"
The race war is almost begun, victory is within the mile. Don't give up now. The only thing she cares about is if the blacks are going to run the world. It could be her singing about the world, right during the closing of the race war.
"We are
Yeah I said it
We are
You can call me Cesar
In a dark Czar
Please follow the lea-der
So Eric B. we are
Microphone fiend
It's the return of thee God
Peace God...
(Auh! Auh! )
And ain't nobody fresher
I'm in Mason"
Call his Ceasar, call him a Czar. Kanye wants to run the world after the race war. He is talking about getting behind him. I'm in Mason is a refrence to Manson and Helter Skelter.
"Fuck the other side, they jealous
We got a bankhead full of broads(?)
They got a table full of fellas... (?)
And they ain't spending no cake
They should throw they hand in
'Cause they ain't got no spades...
My whole team got dough"
The other side is the whites, and how in popular culture how it has become 'cool' to be black. They aint got no spades is saying they will have no blacks on their side. His team is the spades, or the blacks.
Kanye
"It's crazy how you can go from being Joe Blow
To everybody on your dick, no homo
I bought my whole family whips, no Volvos
Next time I'm in church, please no photos
Police escorts
Everybody passports
This the life that everybody ask for"
He bought his family whips, so they are planning on enslaving the whites as revenge after the war. Police escorts, for himself. Another reference to him running the world after the war. The life everyone asks for is power and money.
"You feelin' like you runnin', huh?
Now you know how we feel"
Saying that escaping white slaves now know how the blacks felt during slavery.
Of course this is all up for interpretation, but I believe that it is kind of what they had in mind when making the song. I mean jesus, watch the fucking music video. its a bunch of blacks that look like they were just fighting a war, or they are in Somalia or some shit. They are all in camo and gang gear, with Ak-47's and big guns.
