I wasn’t keen on this song at first, rather bored to tears since I am no aficionada of rap -- but it looped on my roommates itunes for what seemed like 3 weeks straight I grew a liking.
Sampling is a component to rap and hip-hop in its origin so it’s pretty customary that he’d be sampling a song that may have some connotation to his own composition, not to mention, availing on its techno beat. Understandable. I think this song’s meaning yells out his views on the music industry -- even more specifically, the politics behind the award ceremonies -- which sound like a sore subject for him. I don’t know what issues he has nor how his behavior was at a previous awards ceremony but he seems to feel as if it’s plagued with pretentious bureaucracy. With the untrained ear, at first listen, this song seems flatly to be about the pursuit of a woman, a woman that is difficult to get to, worth his efforts no matter how many let downs, turn downs, or distractions from other “less genuine” females -- and the frustration he has builds up -- it makes him stronger. The pursuing of the woman is an allegory of his place in the business as a musician and as a celebrity. The meaning is underlined, the sex sells it. The sex is a means of reaching out to your attention… otherwise the song would be less interesting if be blabbed on about his ideology in a literal sense -- clubs wouldn’t play that shit. The line about the “Klondike” is great… just one of the reoccurring regards to pretense.
I wasn’t keen on this song at first, rather bored to tears since I am no aficionada of rap -- but it looped on my roommates itunes for what seemed like 3 weeks straight I grew a liking.
Sampling is a component to rap and hip-hop in its origin so it’s pretty customary that he’d be sampling a song that may have some connotation to his own composition, not to mention, availing on its techno beat. Understandable. I think this song’s meaning yells out his views on the music industry -- even more specifically, the politics behind the award ceremonies -- which sound like a sore subject for him. I don’t know what issues he has nor how his behavior was at a previous awards ceremony but he seems to feel as if it’s plagued with pretentious bureaucracy. With the untrained ear, at first listen, this song seems flatly to be about the pursuit of a woman, a woman that is difficult to get to, worth his efforts no matter how many let downs, turn downs, or distractions from other “less genuine” females -- and the frustration he has builds up -- it makes him stronger. The pursuing of the woman is an allegory of his place in the business as a musician and as a celebrity. The meaning is underlined, the sex sells it. The sex is a means of reaching out to your attention… otherwise the song would be less interesting if be blabbed on about his ideology in a literal sense -- clubs wouldn’t play that shit. The line about the “Klondike” is great… just one of the reoccurring regards to pretense.
So rap on Sir Greatness.