Song Meanings and Facts

Song Meanings and Facts

Tagged: Kanye West

New Slaves

Kanye West

Kanye West’s “New Slaves” Lyrics Meaning

Kanye West has long been recognized as one of the more-conscious rappers in the music industry. This means that he regularly drops songs which are based on very-serious subject matter that extend outside of his...

Jesus Walks

Kanye West

Kanye West’s “Jesus Walks” Lyrics Meaning

In this day and age (circa 2020), Kanye West is being perceived more and more as a gospel artist. And in reality him fully embracing this particular genre is indeed new. But that does not negate the...

Kanye West

Kanye West

“Closed on Sunday” by Kanye West

Being that this is indeed Kanye West, the most-controversial musician of the second (and perhaps also first) decade of the 21st century, it is inevitable that his song “Closed on Sunday” will be over-analyzed by...

Selah

Kanye West

“Selah” by Kanye West

Kanye West’s “Selah” reads a lot like a freestyle or “ad-lib track”. And why is this so? Because Kanye may have termed it a couple of years ago. We say this because we see a whole...

Up From The Ashes

Kanye West

“Up From Ashes” by Kanye West

The title of this song (“Up From Ashes”) and the message contained therein refer to a spiritual experience, if you will, that the vocalist is going through.  It has been theorized that the lyrics are...

Pusha T

Kash Doll / Pusha T

“Sociopath” by Pusha T (ft. Kash Doll)

While rappers have a tendency to exalt themselves as unsavory characters, in “Sociopath” Pusha T is actually referring to the woman he is dealing with as the titular “sociopath”. And Detroit-based rapper Kash Doll briefly...

Taylor Swift

Taylor Swift

“I Forgot That You Existed” by Taylor Swift

It’s no secret that major-pop artists have a tendency to drop songs based on their personal lives, even if no proper nouns are ever mentioned. And such is the hypothesized case in Taylor Swift’s “I...

Taylor Swift

Taylor Swift

Taylor Swift’s “Cruel Summer” Lyrics Meaning

It has been feasibly postulated that Taylor Swift’s “Cruel Summer” is about a specific era in the life of Swift – specifically the summer of 2016, which would have been memorable to her for a couple...

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Charlie Wilson / Kanye West

“Brothers” by Kanye West (ft. Charlie Wilson)

The theme of Kanye West’s “Brothers” is the resiliency of brotherhood. More specifically, it features the West addressing an estranged “brother”. And what he is basically doing is admitting that he has made mistakes in their...