Andre Iguodala
The forward won four titles with the Golden State Warriors. He calls himself a warrior and finishes the line with Iguodala's name.
References682
Every athlete, artist, show, game, brand and place SyWavy names in his songs, and where to find them.
Athletes
Ben Roethlisberger
The Pittsburgh Steelers quarterback who won two Super Bowls. Stealing sounds like Steelers, which is how he gets into the line.
Bol Bol
The 7-foot-plus big man was playing for the Orlando Magic when this album came out. The pun is in his team's name.
Caitlin Clark
The record-setting guard who went from Iowa to the WNBA's Indiana Fever in 2024. Catching a fever means catching her team.
Collin Sexton
The NBA guard whose nickname is the two words right before his name here. Cleveland drafted him in 2018 for his fearless scoring.
Damian Lillard
The NBA point guard famous for game-winning shots, a habit fans call Dame Time. He made his name with the Portland Trail Blazers.
David Beckham
The English soccer star, famous for free kicks that curled with spin. Said out loud, his name sounds like beckon, so after Big Ben the London theme rolls on and he calls her back.
Dennis Rodman
The five-time NBA champion, as famous for his hair and antics as his rebounding. Kuy hides the last name in a boast, then names Dennis right after.
Devin Haney
The American boxer and former undisputed lightweight champion. Getting knocked out leads straight to his name, which also rhymes with baby.
Devonta Freeman
The former Atlanta Falcons running back and two-time Pro Bowler, a Miami native who played at Florida State. His last name spells out what he wants to be.
Dirk Nowitzki
The Dallas Mavericks star who wore 41 and made the one-legged fadeaway his signature. The fadeaway and his name come first, then the number.
Dwyane Wade
The Miami Heat legend wore number 3 through all three of the team's championships. He picks three as his favorite, and in Florida that number belongs to Wade.
Eli Manning
Peyton's younger brother, who won two Super Bowls with the New York Giants. New York's Finest is the NYPD's nickname, and he swaps in Florida to make clear he's no New Yorker.
Floyd Mayweather Jr.
The boxer who retired undefeated at 50 and 0. The weather in the line before finishes his name.
Gary Payton
The Hall of Fame point guard nicknamed The Glove for his smothering defense with the Seattle SuperSonics. She fits him the way the nickname fit Payton.
Giannis Antetokounmpo
The Milwaukee Bucks star won his first championship in July 2021, two months before this came out. A chip is slang for a title, which is how Frito-Lay gets into the line.
Glen Rice
One of the best shooters of the 1990s, a three-time All-Star who began his career with the Miami Heat and won the 1995 three-point contest. He splits the name in reverse to say he's shooting his shot with her.
Hulk Hogan
The wrestling star, a longtime Clearwater resident, whose WWE contract was cut in 2015 after a leaked recording of him objecting, in racist language, to his daughter dating a Black man. The line pokes right at that.
Ja'Marr Chase
The Cincinnati Bengals wide receiver who was the 2021 Offensive Rookie of the Year and helped carry them to the Super Bowl that season. Making someone run after him brings the receiver to mind.
Jadeveon Clowney
The defensive end who became famous at South Carolina for a helmet-popping hit in the 2013 Outback Bowl in Tampa. Hitting it is also slang for sex, so the hit counts twice.
Jordan Poole
The NBA guard who won a title with the Golden State Warriors in 2022. A pool gets you wetter, and Poole spells it his way.
Jrue Holiday
The guard who won the 2021 title next to Giannis in Milwaukee. The whole line stays on that Bucks team, from the slang for being honest to his last name.
Julius Erving
Dr. J, the Hall of Fame forward who starred for the New York Nets and the Philadelphia 76ers, as famous for his afro as his dunks. His own hair earns the comparison.
Kareem Abdul-Jabbar
The Bucks and Lakers center who held the NBA scoring record for almost 39 years. A boxing jab plus the end of his name is the pun.
Kevin Durant
The scoring great who has worn number 35 for most of his career, respected for a jumper almost no one can guard. Taking his chance with a woman earns him the same respect.
Khabib Nurmagomedov
The UFC lightweight champion who retired unbeaten at 29 and 0. Kicking and beating are fight words, and a beat is also the music, so the fighter lands on both.
Klay Thompson
The Warriors sharpshooter who won all four of those titles and left for the Dallas Mavericks in 2024. His name stands in for play.
Kobe Bryant
Kobe wore 8 for his first ten seasons with the Lakers and 24 for his last ten, and both numbers are retired. Together they make 24/8, a day more than around the clock, which is how much he's there for his family. Frobe is young Kobe, with the afro he had back when he wore 8.
LaMelo Ball
The youngest Ball brother, a Charlotte Hornets star. Mellow sounds like his name.
Latrell Sprewell
The four-time All-Star guard also sold his own line of spinning rims, which is why his name follows a dizzy head. The fadeaway is a jump shot, and his last NBA team was Minnesota.
LiAngelo Ball
The middle Ball brother, who goes by Gelo. Jell-O sounds just like it, keeping the run of Ball brothers going, and his 2025 song Tweaker is what got him moving as an artist.
Lonzo Ball
The oldest Ball brother. The Lakers drafted him in 2017 and he later played for the Chicago Bulls, so these two lines trace his career.
Magic Johnson
The Lakers great, his name split across the line. Magic follows the genie she wants, and Johnson is slang for what she grabs.
Metta World Peace
The NBA forward born Ron Artest, who changed his name to Metta World Peace in 2011. Artest sounds like artist, so the line has him claiming the artist's life and asking for peace in return.
Michael Phelps
The most decorated Olympian ever, with 28 medals, all in the pool. His name becomes a verb for swimming.
Patrick Mahomes
The Kansas City Chiefs quarterback, known for escaping pressure and throwing on the run. His team's city sets up the Kansas joke that follows.
Peyton Manning
The Hall of Fame quarterback who wore 18 for the Colts and Broncos. The number and the throwing lead to him.
Roy Jones Jr.
The boxing great who won world titles from middleweight all the way up to heavyweight. He sets himself next to a fighter who kept moving up.
Russell Westbrook
The former NBA MVP who made the number 0 famous over his years in Oklahoma City. His promise that he'll be somebody turns into a nod to Westbrook's jersey.
Shai Gilgeous-Alexander
The Canadian guard who became the Thunder's star after Durant, and in 2025 won league MVP and the team's first title in Oklahoma City. His first name sounds like shy.
Shannon Sharpe
The Hall of Fame tight end turned TV host, whose personal life became headline news in 2024 and 2025. He closes by saying he won't play that role.
Stone Cold Steve Austin
Her Chanel No. 5 has him pinned like a wrestler on the mat, and then Stone Cold Steve Austin, the beer-drinking WWE star of the late 1990s, shows up. His nickname turns into friends who've gone cold on him.
Terrell Owens
The Hall of Fame receiver known as T.O., as famous for his touchdown celebrations as his catches. His name is the hype.
Thon Maker
The seven-foot center the Milwaukee Bucks drafted in 2016. Rising to his height is how far up he's going.
Tiger Woods
The golf great, whose last name is the joke. Woods are golf clubs and wood is also slang for an erection, and Topgolf, the driving range chain, finishes it.
Tony Hawk
The skater whose name is on the Pro Skater video games. Gliding over a beat becomes a grind down a rail.
Tracy McGrady
The Hall of Fame scorer known as T-Mac, who won two scoring titles with the Orlando Magic and grew up in Auburndale, Florida. The line spells out his nickname in pieces, and teed off also means angry.
Trae Young
The point guard who starred for the Atlanta Hawks. Calling himself young and then naming the Hawks points right at him.
Trevor Ariza
The longtime NBA wing known for spotting up in the corner for threes. The corner means one thing on the street and another for Ariza.
Tua Tagovailoa
The Miami Dolphins quarterback. His first name sounds like to ya, so a pass that can't reach her lands on a Florida quarterback.
Tyler Higbee
The Los Angeles Rams tight end. No loose ends means everything's tight, and Kuy names a tight end to prove it.
Tyson Fury
The British heavyweight and former world champion. Nick Fury turns into Tyson Fury, and he adds right away that he isn't one for fighting.
Usain Bolt
The Jamaican sprinter, the fastest man ever timed. His name says his ex ran off fast and also sounds like insane, and Bolt comes back as electricity in the next line.
Vita Vea
The Tampa Bay Buccaneers' huge defensive tackle, listed around 350 pounds. Buck points to the Bucs and fifty is his jersey number, right after a center the Milwaukee Bucks drafted.
Teams
Boston Celtics
The NBA's Irish-themed franchise, whose leprechaun mascot is named Lucky. Not everyone gets that kind of luck.
Boston Red Sox
The Boston baseball club, paired with the White Sox in the same line to set up the song's talk of bases and being safe.
Chicago White Sox
The Chicago baseball club. He names both Sox teams and slides into base in one line, starting a baseball thread that runs to the end of the song. Read another way, it's an outfit: socks worn with slides.
Cleveland Cavaliers
Cleveland calls itself the Land, and its NBA team is the Cavaliers. Cavalier also means offhand and careless, which is how he claims to feel about her.
Dallas Mavericks
Klay Thompson's team after he left Golden State, which is why the Mavs come right after him.
Detroit Pistons
Detroit's NBA team, whose rough title teams of 1989 and 1990 were called the Bad Boys. She likes bad boys, and he's never been one.
Golden State Warriors
The Bay Area team whose dynasty won four titles in eight years. He says that story is over.
La Liga
Spain's top soccer league, home of FC Barcelona and Real Madrid. It's another league joke after the Sandlot line: his team isn't one they can join.
Los Angeles Chargers
The NFL team that moved from San Diego to Los Angeles in 2017. LA is a city he hasn't visited, but the team name turns into charging after her.
Los Angeles Sparks
The WNBA team, right before the Indiana Fever. Spark is also lighting up.
Miami Heat
Miami's NBA team. Florida heat is the weather and the team at once.
Miami Hurricanes
The University of Miami's teams, named for the storms that hit South Florida, and the line means both. The weather keeps going on the next line, with everything coming down like rain.
Minnesota Timberwolves
Minneapolis's NBA team, where Sprewell finished his career. Naming a team from the frozen north keeps the song's cold going.
New England Patriots
The Patriots won the NFL's AFC East nearly every year from 2001 to 2019, and he claims the East the same way. Then their win-loss record flips into recording a show on AMC, one letter off.
New Orleans Saints
Saints fans in New Orleans chant Who Dat, short for asking who says they're going to beat the Saints. The line opens with that chant in his own words.
Oakland Athletics
Being athletic turns into the Oakland Athletics, known as the A's, and their division rival, the Los Angeles Angels, follows. Swap two letters and Angels becomes angles on the next line.
Oklahoma City Thunder
The NBA team that won the 2025 championship. Paired with the sprinter from earlier in the verse, it makes lightning.
Toronto Raptors
Toronto's NBA team. Drake nicknamed the city the 6, which makes six the Raptors' number too.
Artists and songs
1985 (J. Cole song)
The closing song on J. Cole's 2018 album KOD is called 1985 (Intro to The Fall Off). Jeans from 1985 are old, these ones are about to come off, and the year plus the fall off makes his title.
42 Dugg
The Detroit rapper signed to Yo Gotti's and Lil Baby's labels. The words right before his name sound like his number.
50 Cent
The Queens rapper and businessman. The joke is on sense and cents: his troubles don't add up, and the name is a sum of money.
A BOY IS A GUN* (Tyler, the Creator song)
Tyler, the Creator's song from his 2019 album IGOR. Here it's flipped, and the girl is the gun.
A House Is Not a Home (Luther Vandross)
Luther Vandross's 1981 take on the Burt Bacharach song about a place that's empty without the one you love.
A Milli
Lil Wayne's 2008 single, built on one word looped over and over. He picks up the chant right after talking about a million dollars.
A$AP Rocky
The Harlem rapper whose 2013 posse cut is named for New York's 1 train. His crew's name and that song are both here, bent out of the phrase one-track mind.
Adele
Adele's 2021 comeback single is a plea to be judged gently after leaving a marriage. He makes the same plea and puts her name on it.
Alicia Keys
Her 2003 single You Don't Know My Name stops in the middle for a spoken phone call to a man she has a crush on. This song makes a call of its own, closes on her title, and is named for her: Keys', with the apostrophe.
Amerie
The R&B singer's 2005 hit is 1 Thing, and the line before sets it up.
Ariana Grande
The pop singer, named by her last name.
Audioslave
The 2000s rock band formed by Chris Cornell and members of Rage Against the Machine. He borrows the name to say he's bound to the music.
Bad Bunny
The Puerto Rican star. Right after a line in Spanish, SyBunny puts Sy in front of his name.
Bags (Clairo song)
The lead single from Clairo's Immunity. He borrows the title for the moment she drops her bags at his place.
Barter 6
Young Thug's 2015 mixtape, first announced as Carter 6 in a nod to Lil Wayne that turned into a public feud. Pairing the two titles sets up the next line, which plays on Young Thug's name.
Bazzi
The Michigan singer whose 2018 hit Beautiful was remixed with Camila Cabello. He names the song and then the singer.
blink-182
The pop-punk band behind All the Small Things (1999). A blinker in the line before sets up their name.
Blonde (Frank Ocean album)
Frank Ocean's 2016 album, the one the line before borrows from. Here it's something only the two of them share.
Bob Marley
Her bob haircut supplies his first name, and doggy brings in the other famous Marley, the dog from Marley & Me. Then he takes the name of Marley's 1983 song Buffalo Soldier for himself.
Broken Clocks (SZA song)
A 2017 single from SZA's Ctrl about time moving on while she looks back. Here it's a moment with her that stopped time.
Bryson Tiller
The Louisville R&B singer whose 2015 debut, Trapsoul, made his name. He folds that album and one of its biggest singles into back-to-back lines.
C.R.E.A.M.
Wu-Tang Clan's 1994 single, its title an acronym for a line about money ruling everything. The ad-libs chant it while he leans on the other meaning of cream.
Cam'ron
The Harlem artist who led the Diplomats, or Dipset, and whose pink mink at New York Fashion Week in 2002 became a style landmark. His name doubles as come on.
CeeLo Green
The Atlanta singer from Goodie Mob and Gnarls Barkley. The line turns his name around so the color comes first, and the green carries over to the Athletics, the baseball team that played across the bay from San Francisco in Oakland, in green and gold.
Chief Keef
The Chicago drill pioneer, whose early single Bang put him on the map. He also sings on a Yeezus song about drinking, which the end of the line points to.
Clairo
The singer-songwriter Claire Cottrill, born in Atlanta, who broke out in 2017 with Pretty Girl, a song she filmed in her bedroom. The song borrows her name and the bedroom pop sound she's known for.
Cordae
Have Mercy is a 2019 song by Cordae, who was dating the tennis star Naomi Osaka at the time. His own girl doesn't play tennis, so the line names Cordae's song and then sets her apart from his.
Cry Me a River (Justin Timberlake song)
Justin Timberlake's 2002 song about a girlfriend who cheated. He won't be the one crying.
Ctrl (SZA album)
Two songs from SZA's vault that she added to Ctrl's deluxe edition for its fifth anniversary in 2022. The bridge opens on both of them.
Dead and Gone (T.I. song)
T.I. and Justin Timberlake's 2009 song about the friend T.I. lost and the life he walked away from. It fits a song about someone who's gone.
DeBarge
The Motown family group led by El DeBarge, behind 1980s ballads like All This Love. Naming them on this song backs up its claim to R&B.
Doja Cat
Her breakout single Say So was climbing the charts in early 2020, the same season this song came out. Cat is also slang for sex, so the song title turns into him getting it just by asking.
Drew Barrymore (SZA song)
Ctrl's lead single, named for the actor, about feeling out of place and wanting to be wanted. Normal Girl, also on Ctrl, ends the line, flipped to say she isn't one.
Earth, Wind & Fire
The band's 1978 hit is named for the month he brings up just before naming them. Bending earth, air and fire comes straight from Avatar: The Last Airbender.
Erykah Badu
The Dallas singer who led neo-soul with her 1997 album Baduizm. The line borrows the title of her first single, and she sets up the OutKast song that follows, which André 3000 wrote about their breakup and her mother.
Eve (rapper)
The Philadelphia rapper Eve had a 2007 hit called Tambourine. So when he blames Eve for his rib on the next line, she's the rapper as well as the woman from Genesis.
Ex-Factor
Lauryn Hill's 1998 breakup song from The Miseducation of Lauryn Hill. He borrows the plea from its chorus and its title in one line.
F*ck the World (Brent Faiyaz album)
Brent Faiyaz's album, out in February 2020, less than two months before Keys'. The R&B singer's title opens the line.
Faneto
Chief Keef's 2014 drill anthem, still a go-to for crowds. Calling a verse its Faneto means it's the hardest one.
Fergie
The Black Eyed Peas singer whose 2005 hit My Humps comes back from the first verse. Her name also stands in for jiggy, as in Will Smith's Gettin' Jiggy wit It.
Fire and Desire
The 1981 slow-jam duet by Rick James and Teena Marie, from his album Street Songs. The hook borrows its two big words right after the Teena Marie lines.
Flashing Lights
Kanye West's 2007 single from his album Graduation. The next line turns that album's title into a joke about his own schooling.
Frank Ocean
Self Control and Nights are both songs on Frank Ocean's 2016 album Blonde, and the shirt's color makes three. The wishing well at the end keeps the water theme going.
Fugees
The trio of Lauryn Hill, Wyclef Jean and Pras, whose 1996 album The Score includes Ready or Not. He works their name and that song title into the same line.
fun.
The band fun. had a 2012 No. 1 with We Are Young. The line puts their name and their biggest hit side by side.
Future (rapper)
The Atlanta rapper hides in the line: seeing the future is also seeing Future.
Genie in a Bottle (Christina Aguilera song)
Christina Aguilera's 1999 debut single, whose hook is about being rubbed the right way. The rubbing comes first, then the genie.
Giveon
The deep-voiced Long Beach R&B singer who broke through in 2020. One of his songs from that year shares its title with what he says he isn't.
Go Gina (SZA song)
A Ctrl song about letting loose and refusing to be held back, chanted here like a cheer.
GoldLink
The Washington, D.C. artist whose 2017 album At What Cost includes the two songs named here, one of them his biggest hit. Then his name turns into the gold chain links he's wearing.
Gone Girl (SZA song)
An SOS song about needing space and still wanting to be held onto. The line pairs it with another SOS title and repeats it like a plea.
Good Days (SZA song)
SZA's 2020 single about holding on to hope after a love ends. The hook opens on its title and puts those days in the past.
Good Morning
The opening track on Kanye West's Graduation, the album he joked about earlier in the song. Coming first is what this song and that one have in common.
Grateful Dead
The jam band whose devoted fans call themselves Deadheads. He folds the band and its fans into a request for a little thanks.
Green Day
The California punk band. Green is also slang for weed, so a green day is a day of smoking, and the next line names their 2004 hit Boulevard of Broken Dreams and says this one has been fixed.
Gwen Stefani
The singer who fronted No Doubt before her solo career. Her first name sounds like went.
Heartless (The Weeknd song)
One of the first singles from The Weeknd's After Hours, the album the hook keeps naming. He flips its title around and calls himself the opposite.
Ice Spice
The Bronx artist who broke out in 2022 with Munch (Feelin' U). Her name rhymes with Old Spice in the line before.
Immunity (Clairo album)
Clairo's 2019 debut album. He calls his girl the queen of it, keeping the song inside Clairo's world.
In Bloom (Nirvana song)
A Nirvana song from Nevermind (1991). Drain You, from the same album, is in the line too.
Isn't She Lovely (Stevie Wonder song)
Stevie Wonder's 1976 song for his newborn daughter, from Songs in the Key of Life. That album title ties back to the keys in the line before.
J. Cole
Fayetteville, North Carolina, J. Cole's hometown, goes by the Ville, and Forbidden Fruit is a song from his 2013 album Born Sinner. The trip and the fruit both come from him.
Jay-Z
His 2004 single Dirt Off Your Shoulder made brushing off your shoulder the gesture for shrugging off haters. When he does it, a wave is what he sees.
Jett2Fly
Jett2Fly is SyWavy's producer and creative partner. The line turns his name into a verb for flying home fast.
Jodeci
The North Carolina R&B group of K-Ci, JoJo, DeVante Swing and Mr. Dalvin, behind 90s slow jams like Forever My Lady and Come and Talk to Me. It's what he puts on as the night winds down.
Jorja Smith
The British R&B singer. Her 2018 debut album is Lost & Found, and Goodbyes is a song on it, so the whole line is built from her titles.
Juice WRLD
The Chicago artist known for melodic songs about heartbreak, who died in 2019 at 21. He credits Juice with the idea that something can be a blessing and a burden at once.
Kanye West
Stronger and Can't Tell Me Nothing were both singles from Kanye West's 2007 album Graduation. He fits both titles into one line.
Kelly Rowland
A member of Destiny's Child with Beyoncé and Michelle Williams. Her last name sounds like rolling, and the next lines work the group's name in too.
Keyshia Cole
The Oakland R&B singer whose 2005 ballad Love made her a star. He splits her name across the line, last name first.
KISS
The face-painted 1970s rock band whose bassist, Gene Simmons, made sticking his tongue out a trademark.
KP & Envyi
The R&B duo behind the 1998 hit Shorty (You Keep Playin' with My Mind). He reaches for late-90s R&B as a mood.
Kurt Cobain
Nirvana's singer and songwriter, the face of 1990s grunge. The next lines dig into his band's biggest album.
Kuy
The artist featured on this song. Instead of chasing big features, SyWavy says he'd just call Kuy.
La Di Da Di
The 1985 record by Doug E. Fresh and Slick Rick. Doug E. Fresh was known as the Human Beatbox, which is why it follows beatboxing.
Lana Del Rey
The singer whose 2011 breakout was Video Games, and whose 2012 single Diet Mountain Dew shows up in the next line. He wants a girl straight out of her songs.
Lauryn Hill
The New Jersey singer and rapper whose 1998 number one single warned men and women about being used for one thing. He cites her twice in this verse as the last word on it.
Like a G6 (Far East Movement song)
Far East Movement's 2010 hit, named for a Gulfstream private jet. The G2 pen turns into the G6 jet right after a Jett2Fly ad-lib, and flight is the running image for his producer's name.
Lil Uzi Vert
The Philadelphia artist's 2017 album Luv Is Rage 2 includes The Way Life Goes, one of its biggest songs. Rage and that title both fit in one line.
Love Galore (SZA song)
Ctrl's 2017 single with Travis Scott, about wanting more from someone who keeps it casual. Miles, in the same line, is another song from Ctrl's deluxe edition.
Love Language (SZA song)
An SOS song about learning how to love someone the way they need. The line folds another SOS title in right before it.
Love Lockdown
Kanye West's 2008 single from 808s & Heartbreak, an album built on the Roland 808 drum machine. He names the song and the machine in a few words.
Love Scars (Trippie Redd song)
Trippie Redd's breakout song, from his 2017 mixtape A Love Letter to You. Here the scars are the marks left on her neck.
Luther Vandross
The R&B singer's 1981 version of A House Is Not a Home is one of his best-loved recordings. The title says what he's learned about the place he left.
Mac Miller
The Pittsburgh artist behind Swimming and Circles. He splits the name across the line with a Miller beer on one end, and Mac also sounds like mack, slang for a smooth talker with women.
Madonna
Madonna's 1985 hit about loving money and nice things gave pop one of its best-known labels. He gives his girl that label.
Mariah Carey
Mariah Carey's 1994 holiday hit is about wanting one person more than any gift, and the line before borrows that idea. Then her last name turns into a verb.
Mase
The Harlem artist whose 1997 debut Harlem World made him Bad Boy Records' breakout star. He wants that run without the label's founder.
MF DOOM
The masked rapper who built his persona on Marvel's Doctor Doom. Doom's archrival is Mister Fantastic, the stretchy leader of the Fantastic Four, so the line brings both sides of the fight.
Michael Jackson
P.Y.T. (Pretty Young Thing) is a song from his 1982 album Thriller. He uses the initials as a compliment.
Miguel
The Los Angeles R&B singer whose 2012 single from Kaleidoscope Dream wonders how much a date needs to drink before she'll leave with him. He borrows that song's question.
Mitski
The Japanese American singer-songwriter behind raw indie songs like Nobody. Her name sets up the rhyme.
Mobb Deep
The Queensbridge duo of Prodigy and Havoc, whose 1995 song about scared, fake tough guys gives the line its phrase.
Money Trees
Kendrick Lamar's 2012 song with Jay Rock from good kid, m.A.A.d city, about wanting to sit in the shade of a tree that grows cash. He's already there.
Ms. Jackson (OutKast song)
OutKast's 2000 hit, André 3000's apology to the mother of his ex, the singer named two lines earlier.
Nav and Lil Uzi Vert
Two artists named side by side, and Leaders is a song the two of them made together.
Nelly
His 2002 summer hit Hot in Herre is the source. Instead of taking clothes off, he heads for the sink, since water is this album's answer to everything.
Nevermind (Nirvana album)
Nirvana's 1991 album, the one with the baby swimming after a dollar on the cover. He uses its title to brush her off.
Nicki Minaj
The Trinidad-born, Queens-raised rap star. Her last name sounds like ménage, as in a threesome.
Nirvana
Their 1991 song Something in the Way became the theme of The Batman, following on from the Pattinson line.
Nirvana (band)
The Washington band that led grunge in the early 1990s. Spirit points to their biggest hit, Smells Like Teen Spirit, and nirvana is also the Buddhist word for release from suffering.
No Change (SyWavy song)
His own song from the 2020 EP Ear Candi. This song's hook echoes its title, and here he ties that older song to someone he lost.
No Doubt
Gwen Stefani's band from Anaheim, California, whose 1995 breakout single finishes the line.
Otis Redding
The Georgia soul singer behind Try a Little Tenderness and (Sittin' On) The Dock of the Bay. That's the bar he sets when he talks about his own singing.
OutKast
André 3000 of OutKast goes by Three Stacks, so counting stacks up to three lands on the duo. Their 1996 single Elevators (Me & You) is behind the elevator and escalator lines that follow.
Pain 1993 (Drake song)
Drake's song with Playboi Carti from Dark Lane Demo Tapes, out in May 2020, a few months before this one.
Panic! at the Disco
The pop rock band led by Brendon Urie. He splits its name across the line.
Paramore
The Tennessee rock band, whose 2014 single Ain't It Fun won a Grammy. He borrows the title to ask why the dancing stopped, and the band's name sounds like paramour, an old word for a lover.
Pharrell Williams
The Virginia producer and singer who sang lead on Daft Punk's 2013 hit. Coming right after Soul for Real, his name also sounds like for real, and the line borrows that hit's title for someone else.
Pink + White (Frank Ocean song)
A song from Frank Ocean's 2016 album Blonde, its colors flipped here.
Pink Tape (Lil Uzi Vert album)
Lil Uzi Vert's 2023 album. Spinning it again works as a dance move and as playing the record one more time.
Playboi Carti
Cardigan points to Middle of the Summer, from Carti's 2018 album Die Lit, which brags about a $3,500 cardigan, and Fetti is one of his early songs. On the surface it's just clothes and money.
Popcaan
The Jamaican dancehall star of the Unruly crew, later signed to Drake's OVO Sound. Being embraced like him is the compliment.
Pretty Girl (Clairo song)
Clairo's 2017 breakout, a lo-fi song with a webcam video that went viral. He keeps working the title into his lines about his girl.
Pretty Little Birds (SZA song)
A slow Ctrl track featuring Isaiah Rashad, and one more title in the run.
Prince
His 1984 hit When Doves Cry is the reference. Casting himself as Prince, he turns her tears into the song's doves.
Prom (SZA song)
A Ctrl song about not being ready to grow up, paired with the school night he says he never had. Anything, at the end of the line, is another Ctrl song.
Queen
Queen and David Bowie's 1981 hit. The band's name is what he calls his woman, and the song's title is what she never feels.
Rihanna
The Barbados-born singer. The line names two of her albums back to back, from 2009 and 2011.
Robin Thicke
His 2013 hit Blurred Lines is the reference, set up by blurry signs that keep the song's road-sign theme going.
Rolling in the Deep (Adele song)
Adele's 2010 breakup hit. A Dyson vacuum rolls too, so the rolling carries over from her song to the vacuum.
Rowdy Rebel
The Brooklyn artist from Bobby Shmurda's GS9 crew. His name is split across these two lines.
Rylo Rodriguez
The rapper from Mobile, Alabama, signed to Lil Baby's label, 4PF. Rello rolls right into his name.
Sade
The British band fronted by Sade Adu, whose smooth 1980s and 1990s records set the standard for late-night R&B. Her name lands in a hazy line about hope.
Shakira
Her 2006 hit Hips Don't Lie is the reference, set up by the line before it.
Shiloh Dynasty
The anonymous singer whose short clips, posted online in the mid 2010s, were sampled by XXXTentacion on Jocelyn Flores and by many others before the account went quiet. He flips the name around to say he's starting a dynasty.
Single Ladies (Put a Ring on It)
Beyoncé's 2008 hit says a man who liked her should have married her. He borrows its ring for someone who wants more than he's offering.
Slay3r (Playboi Carti song)
Playboi Carti's song from Whole Lotta Red, the 2020 album that made black and red and the rage sound his look.
Slick Rick
The London-born storyteller of 80s hip-hop, famous for his eye patch and gold chains. His breakout 1985 record with Doug E. Fresh is named for a live performance, which he admits he hasn't done yet.
Smino
The St. Louis artist known for flows that speed up and slow down mid-verse. Switching the tempo is the move he's borrowing.
Snooze (SZA song)
SZA's 2022 hit from SOS about never wanting to miss a minute with someone. He wishes he could press it on the breakup instead.
Soft Cell
The English synth-pop duo behind Tainted Love (1981). Calling his phone by their name sets up their biggest hit later in the same line.
Sonder
The R&B trio of Brent Faiyaz with producers Dpat and Atu, named for a made-up word about realizing every stranger has a life as full as yours. The name lands at the end of a chain of rhymes.
SOS (SZA album)
SZA's 2022 album, named for the distress signal. The line spells out the phrase those letters are often said to stand for.
Soul for Real
An R&B group of four brothers from Long Island whose first single went top five in 1995. He names the group and that hit in the same line.
Soulja Boy
The artist whose 2008 hit with Sammie was about kissing over the phone. The ringing in the next lines answers it.
Steve Lacy
The Compton singer and guitarist from The Internet, whose 2017 solo demo includes a song spelled with those three letters. Said out loud they make ride, and riding for someone means sticking by them.
Stevie Wonder
The Motown great, a keyboard player first. The line flips his name around and leads with keys, which is also the name of SyWavy's 2020 single, Keys'. Dreams adds a second Stevie: it's Stevie Nicks's 1977 hit with Fleetwood Mac.
Stunna 4 Vegas
The North Carolina rapper who came up with DaBaby and signed to his label. Vegas and stunna in one line put his name together backward.
Supermodel (SZA song)
The song that opens Ctrl, an open letter to someone who left her feeling like she wasn't enough.
Swimming Pools (Drank)
Kendrick Lamar's 2012 single about drinking and peer pressure. He squeezes its hook into half a line.
SWV
Sisters With Voices, the New York trio behind some of the biggest R&B hits of 1993. He works two of their best known songs into back-to-back lines.
SZA
The R&B singer whose 2017 debut album Ctrl includes the hit that names the third night. Her music is what's playing.
Taylor Swift
A Swiftie is a Taylor Swift fan. That matters two lines later, when he admits who he grew up on.
Teena Marie
The Motown singer and songwriter known as Lady T, whose biggest solo hit, from 1981, is named at the start of the next line. He splits her name in two to get there.
Tha Carter III
Lil Wayne's 2008 album, one of the best-selling hip-hop records of its decade and the home of A Milli.
The Dark Side of the Moon (Pink Floyd album)
Pink Floyd's 1973 album. One word is swapped so the line points at smoke instead of the moon.
The Foreign Exchange
The R&B duo of the singer Phonte and the Dutch producer Nicolay, who made their first album trading files online before they ever met. It works the plain way too, as foreign money.
The Kid LAROI
The Australian singer whose 2021 hit with Justin Bieber is a one-word plea, the same word she keeps saying to him a few lines up. So he asks if that's who she takes him for.
The London (Young Thug song)
Young Thug's 2019 song with J. Cole, named for a hotel in West Hollywood, with Travis Scott singing the hook. London in one line and Travis in the next point at it. 10-4 is radio code for message received.
The Notorious B.I.G.
The Brooklyn legend whose 1995 hit Big Poppa is named for one of his nicknames. It's the song he puts on to set the mood.
The Omen (Playboi Carti song)
Playboi Carti put out a song called The Omen in 2015, so fifteen is the year it came out.
The Part Time Models
A group SyWavy works with, featured on three Flight 370 songs, Botanical Gardens, Catch Flights & CRY and Shadows, and later on the 2025 single Put It On!. The line plays on their name, as if modeling were a side job that pays well.
The Perfect LUV Tape (Lil Uzi Vert)
Lil Uzi Vert's 2016 mixtape, which has a song called Money Mitch on it.
The Rolling Stones
The British rock band, together since 1962. The crew rolls the way the Stones do.
The Sweet Escape (Gwen Stefani song)
Gwen Stefani's 2006 hit with Akon, which leads into the lines about her.
The Weeknd
The Toronto singer's fourth album came out in March 2020, three months before this EP, and its title runs through the hook. The song's own title spells weekend his way.
Thrift Shop (Macklemore & Ryan Lewis song)
The hook of Macklemore and Ryan Lewis's 2012 hit about buying secondhand clothes, a fit for a song full of vintage pieces. Za is slang for weed.
TLC
The Atlanta group's name comes from its members T-Boz, Left Eye and Chilli, and also spells tender loving care, which is what he's offering.
Tory Lanez
The Toronto singer and rapper. His name splits across the line to tell someone they're out of place.
Treasure (Bruno Mars song)
A nod to Bruno Mars's 2013 single Treasure, a song that calls a girl exactly that.
Tupac Shakur
2Pac's 1998 single Changes, built over Bruce Hornsby's The Way It Is, opens with nearly the same complaint. Here it's pointed at a woman who keeps going back to the wrong guys.
Used (SZA song)
An SOS track featuring Don Toliver, tucked into the start of the line.
Usher
The R&B star, whose 2016 single with Young Thug gives the line its opening words. His name also stands for the person who shows you to your seat.
Wavy (Interlude) (SZA song)
A short Ctrl track featuring James Fauntleroy. Its title is half his name, so he slips himself into her album.
What a Time to Be Alive
Drake and Future's 2015 joint mixtape. Live From the Gutter is one of its songs, so the line names the tape and a track off it.
Wu-Tang Clan
Their song C.R.E.A.M., from their 1993 debut, stands for cash rules everything around me. He swaps the first letter to make it about dreamers, who get no love.
Yeezus
Kanye West's 2013 album. One of its centerpieces samples Nina Simone's Strange Fruit, and that song's title finishes the line, tying back to the trees before it.
Young Dolph
The Memphis artist who built his own label, Paper Route Empire, and stayed independent. His name works as a verb here, and with M.I.A., Miami's airport code, in front of it, the line spells out the Miami Dolphins.
Yung Miami
The City Girls rapper from Miami, whose real first name is Caresha. A Miami trip puts her name and her city in one line.
Film and TV
30 for 30
ESPN's sports documentary series, running since 2009. He's just watched one.
300 (film)
Zack Snyder's film with Gerard Butler as the Spartan king Leonidas. The line names the actor and the movie together.
American Horror Story: Murder House
The doomed teen couple from the first season of American Horror Story, played by Taissa Farmiga and Evan Peters. Their romance never leaves one haunted house, which is why his never goes out on dates.
Andrew Schulz
The comedian whose podcast was first called Flagrant 2. Being flagrant too says the show's old name out loud, and the odd spelling is his last name.
Anne Hathaway
The Oscar-winning actor from Les Misérables. Her last name sounds like having to wait, and her 2024 romance comes in the next line.
Annie
The musical about an orphan taken in by the rich Daddy Warbucks. Its song It's the Hard Knock Life, which Jay-Z sampled in 1998, carries into the next line.
Arrested Development
The Fox sitcom about the Bluth family, which shares its name with a 90s hip-hop group. He turns the title into an arrest.
Ashton Kutcher
He hosted Punk'd, the MTV prank show where celebrities got set up on camera. Don't be the one who gets fooled, he warns.
Austin Powers
Mike Myers' spy parody series, soaked in loud 1960s colors and patterns. Groovy is the hero's favorite word, and it's the one he picks for what he's wearing.
Back to the Future
The 1985 time-travel classic. Switching outfits through the decades is his time machine.
Batman
Batman's nickname, and the title of Christopher Nolan's 2008 film. Anyone joking with him gets cast as the Joker.
Bella Thorne
The Shake It Up actress has talked since she was a kid about her dyslexia, and how her brain mixed up letters like b and d. Disney even wrote it into an episode of the show. That's why the mixed signals, right after the dyslexia line, land on her.
Better Call Saul
The Breaking Bad spinoff (2015 to 2022) about the lawyer Saul Goodman. The line turns telling her to go call someone else into the show's title.
Billy Butcher
The British vigilante from The Boys who says oi and goes after superheroes.
Bow Wow
Byron is Bow Wow's character in Tyler Perry's Madea's Big Happy Family (2011), and Lottery Ticket is the 2010 comedy he starred in, about a kid who wins the lottery. Two of his movies, back to back.
Boy Meets World
The 90s sitcom where Cory Matthews and Topanga Lawrence grow from classmates into a married couple. He casts himself as Cory, with a Topanga of his own.
Breakin'
In the 1984 movie Breakin', the dancer Turbo does a famous routine with a broom. Cutting up means dancing wild, so out comes the broom.
Buffy the Vampire Slayer
The late 90s TV series about a teenage girl who hunts vampires. Someone who hides from daylight belongs in her world.
Catfish
The 2010 documentary and MTV series about people who fake who they are online, which made catfishing a verb. The next line keeps the fishing going.
Chucky
The killer doll from the Child's Play horror films. The insult is built out of the series' title.
Cruella de Vil
The villain of 101 Dalmatians, who wants the puppies for a fur coat and wears her hair half black, half white. Her black and white look matches Chanel's, which is why he reaches for her.
Daddy Day Care
Eddie Murphy's 2003 comedy about laid-off dads who open a day care. It plays off the line about not having a kid.
Daniel Kaluuya
The actor who starred in Jordan Peele's Get Out and Nope. The line names both movies on the way to his name.
Darth Vader
The Star Wars villain who reveals he is Luke Skywalker's father. The line asks about Skywalker's father and tucks the answer into a word about invading.
Deal or No Deal
The Howie Mandel game show built on choosing briefcases, with a million dollars at the top. It starts a run of million-dollar names.
Denzel Washington
He played an airline pilot in the 2012 film Flight. Choosing a plane over a hike puts him in the captain's seat.
Django Unchained
Quentin Tarantino's 2012 western, starring Jamie Foxx as a freed slave who sets out to rescue his wife. He uses the title to say he's broken loose.
Do the Right Thing
Spike Lee's 1989 film about one scorching day on a Brooklyn block that boils over. Buggin' Out is one of its characters, so the line pairs the title with his name to say everyone is losing their cool.
Dune
Frank Herbert's science fiction novel, adapted by Denis Villeneuve into a 2021 film. Sy is his name and also the first sound of sci-fi.
E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial
Steven Spielberg's 1982 film, where the stranded alien just wants to call home. He's having the same trouble getting through.
Eddie Murphy
The comedy star of Coming to America. The title turns into a sex joke, and the bib sets up his day care movie in the next line.
Empire (TV series)
Fox's drama about the Lyon family and the record label they fight over, which ran from 2015 to 2020.
Fast & Furious
The street-racing film series that began in 2001. Its title splits across the line: she's the fast one, and he insists he's not angry.
Finn (Star Wars)
The stormtrooper who walks away from the First Order in Star Wars: The Force Awakens, played by John Boyega. Through the sequels he keeps putting himself between his friends and danger.
Freddy Krueger
The villain of A Nightmare on Elm Street, who attacks people in their dreams. Falling asleep brings him on.
Friday (1995 film)
The 1995 Ice Cube and Chris Tucker comedy, home of the famous goodbye to Felicia. He sends someone off the same way.
Fruitvale Station
Ryan Coogler's 2013 film about a young man's last day in Oakland, starring Michael B. Jordan. The line builds the actor's name from a dancer named Michael, a ball for the B, and a player named Jordan.
FX (TV network)
The cable network behind shows like Atlanta and The Bear. Its name doubles as shorthand for special effects.
Glass (2019 film)
M. Night Shyamalan's 2019 film, which brought together his movies Unbreakable and Split. Breaking through, glass, split and night all land within two lines.
Goodfellas
Martin Scorsese's 1990 mob film, nearly two and a half hours long. He wants something long playing in the background.
Green Lantern
The DC Comics hero powered by a green ring. A trip to Washington, D.C. turns into the comic company, and since green means weed and a lantern is something you light, there was nothing to light up.
Groot
The walking tree from Marvel's Guardians of the Galaxy. Tree is slang for weed, so his name stands in for what they rolled.
Grover
The frantic, chatty blue monster from Sesame Street. He's the comparison for someone who can't control what comes out of their mouth.
Gwen Stacy
Peter Parker's girlfriend, whose deadly fall is one of Spider-Man's best-known stories. He says he never lets anything drop, the opposite of what happened to her.
Halle Berry
The Oscar-winning actress played Storm in the X-Men films, so the storm and her name sit side by side. Her last name also rhymes into the proposal that follows.
Hannah Montana
The Disney Channel show about a girl living a double life as a pop star, played by Miley Cyrus. Its theme song is The Best of Both Worlds, and his two worlds are two women.
Inside Out
Pixar's 2015 film takes place inside a girl's head, and its lead character is an emotion named Joy. The line names the movie, then her.
Jack Sparrow
Johnny Depp's pirate captain in the Pirates of the Caribbean films. His first name doubles as getting robbed.
Jason Bateman
The actor who played Marty Byrde in Netflix's Ozark, a financial planner who gets pulled into washing dirty money. The line borrows that role, and the name rhymes back to Patrick Bateman two lines up.
Jason Statham
The British action star, whose 2012 thriller Safe has him protecting a young girl from the people hunting her. He's the first of two Jasons in a row, both rhymed off Bateman.
Jason Voorhees
The masked killer of the Friday the 13th movies. The date sets him up.
Jenna Ortega
The actor whose Netflix series Wednesday was a breakout hit in late 2022. Her name stands for the kind of woman he wants.
Jersey Shore
MTV's 2009 reality show about roommates partying on the New Jersey coast. A shore and a jersey in one line put its name together.
Jet Li
The martial arts star of Hero and Romeo Must Die. Kicking it, as in hanging out, becomes a kick.
Josh Brolin
The actor behind Thanos in the Avengers films and the lead in No Country for Old Men. He credits her performance like it's one of Brolin's.
Juwanna Mann
The 2002 comedy about a suspended NBA player who poses as a woman to play in a women's league. She wants to make films, just not that one.
K.C. Undercover
The Disney Channel show starring Zendaya as a teenage spy. Under and KC make its name, and it keeps the under-the-covers joke going.
Keanu Reeves
The actor known for all-black looks as John Wick and as Neo in The Matrix. His name breaks across two lines, with Reeves starting the second.
Kenan & Kel
Kenan Thompson and Kel Mitchell came up together on a Nickelodeon sketch show whose name opens this line, then got a sitcom of their own. Both shows land in one line, casting the two of them as a duo.
Kids' Choice Awards
Nickelodeon's yearly awards show, where kids vote for the winners. The kid and choice together make its name, and Timmy Turner, from another Nickelodeon show, turns up later in the song.
Kim Kardashian
Her full first name is Kimberly. Keeping it a K, like keeping it a thousand, means being straight with him, and the K is for Kim.
Knives Out
Rian Johnson's 2019 murder mystery, paired with a dinner pun. It starts the film talk that closes the song.
Kryptonite
The glowing rock from Superman's home planet, the one thing that can take him down. His past does that to him.
Lindsay Lohan
She starred in Freaky Friday (2003), where a mother and daughter wake up in each other's bodies. He borrows the title to ask for a wild end to the week.
Living Single
The 90s Fox sitcom about friends in a Brooklyn brownstone. Synclaire's sweetheart was the building's handyman Overton, so the line packs both of them and the show's title into a few words.
Major Payne
Damon Wayans' 1995 comedy about a hard-nosed Marine put in charge of young cadets. Attention is what a drill instructor barks, and the title sounds like a major pain.
Martin (TV series)
Martin Lawrence's 90s sitcom, where Martin and Gina were the couple everyone wanted to be and Pam was Gina's best friend. She wants to be Gina but doesn't have a Pam.
Martin Lawrence
The comedian behind the 1990s sitcom Martin. He starred with Eddie Murphy in the 1999 comedy Life, which the line slips in.
Mighty Morphin Power Rangers
The 1990s kids' show where teenagers team up and combine their machines into one giant robot. Uniting is the whole point.
Mike Lowrey
Will Smith's Miami detective in the Bad Boys films. Bad Boys for Life had come out that January, and the name follows the bad boy line before it.
Mission: Impossible
The spy series, on TV from 1966 and in theaters with Tom Cruise since 1996. He pulls the title apart, keeping the missions and throwing out the impossible.
Mister Ed
The talking horse from the 1960s sitcom Mister Ed. Left on read, he's asking someone to talk to him, the way you'd ask Ed.
Mo'Nique
The stand-up comedian who won an Oscar for her dramatic turn in Precious. He tells someone this isn't a joke and names a comedian to say it.
Mr. Bean
Rowan Atkinson's nearly silent British TV character, who turns simple tasks into slapstick. He's the comparison for behavior that makes no sense.
Nevel Papperman
The scheming rival on Nickelodeon's iCarly, a web-savvy kid with a hopeless crush on Carly. He compares a love that only lives on a screen to Nevel's.
Nick Fury
Samuel L. Jackson's eye-patched spymaster in the Marvel films, the man who brings the Avengers together. He's assembling a team of his own, of a different kind.
Nicolas Cage
Nic is short for nicotine, so the actor's name turns into a vape he keeps hitting for days. Cage also played Ghost Rider, whose head is a skull on fire, and that's the flaming head in the next line.
One Hundred and One Dalmatians
Disney's 1961 animated film, from Dodie Smith's novel, about a litter of spotted puppies and Cruella de Vil, who wants their fur. He brings her back, swaps the dogs for colors, and ends on the half of her name that sounds like devil.
Padmé Amidala
The queen and senator from the Star Wars prequels, who dies of a broken heart in Revenge of the Sith. That's why her name fits something that's killing him.
Patrick Bateman
The Wall Street killer at the center of American Psycho, Bret Easton Ellis's 1991 novel and the 2000 film with Christian Bale. He swaps his state in for American, spells psycho with his own name, Sy, and does the same to Bateman.
Poltergeist
The 1982 horror film where a little girl talks to spirits through a staticky TV. The TV is the link.
Ride Along
The 2014 cop comedy starring Ice Cube and Kevin Hart. The movie's title opens the line, and heart, which sounds like its star's last name, follows.
Robert Downey Jr.
The actor who played Iron Man, whose chest holds a glowing reactor that keeps shrapnel out of his heart. She runs on the same cold machinery.
Robert Pattinson
The actor who played Bruce Wayne in The Batman (2022). Black man sounds like Batman, and Pat also means a pat-down, which he won't allow.
Rocky Balboa
Things getting rocky means they're falling apart, and Rocky is the underdog boxer Sylvester Stallone wrote and played. Stallone also rhymes with being left alone, which he asks for a line earlier.
Rush Hour
The 1998 action comedy that paired Jackie Chan and Chris Tucker as mismatched partners. That's his working relationship with Jett2Fly: two different styles that click.
Shrek
Smash Mouth's cover of I'm a Believer plays in Shrek (2001), so calling himself a believer leads straight to the ogre.
Slumdog Millionaire
Danny Boyle's 2008 Best Picture winner about a Mumbai teen on a TV quiz show. The line splits its title, right after another million-dollar game show.
Speckles (G-Force)
The star-nosed mole from Disney's 2009 movie G-Force, the team's computer expert, voiced by Nicolas Cage. Moles live underground, so coming up from the underground makes him like Speckles.
Spider-Man
Peter Parker's Aunt May dies in Spider-Man: No Way Home (2021), the loss that teaches him about responsibility. In Peter's place, he says, he'd have saved her.
Spike Lee
The director of Do the Right Thing, whose films are all billed as A Spike Lee Joint, which is why a joint comes first. Shooting means filming, a fitting boast from an artist who directs, and Spike's Air Jordan ads lead to Nike in the next line.
Tales from the Crypt
HBO's horror anthology, hosted by the cackling Crypt Keeper. Someone telling stories about him gets filed as a horror tale.
The Conjuring
The Nun is a 2018 horror film spun off from The Conjuring series. He spells none like the movie's title and follows it with the series it came from.
The Curious Case of Benjamin Button
The 2008 film where Brad Pitt ages backward. Something getting old is the opposite of Button, and the name hands off to money in the next line.
The Deep
A sea-powered superhero in Amazon's The Boys, a send-up of Aquaman. Hanging with his own crew, he makes clear they aren't the show's.
The Fresh Prince of Bel-Air
He prays for will, the strength to keep going, and the line hides The Fresh Prince of Bel-Air. Will lived with his Uncle Phil, who stepped in as his father, and filled sounds just like Phil.
The Goonies
The 1985 adventure film about kids hunting for pirate treasure. He bends its name, then borrows Sloth's famous shout to the kids to get people streaming his music.
The Green Mile
The 1999 prison drama starring Tom Hanks, which drew four Oscar nominations. Green has its other meaning here too, and the Academy, the group that hands out the Oscars, comes right after.
The Idea of You
Anne Hathaway's 2024 Prime Video romance, about a single mom who falls for a younger boy band singer. The title becomes someone he's holding out for.
The Matrix
The 1999 sci-fi film, famous for Neo bending backward to dodge bullets in a long black coat. He strikes the same pose in photos.
The Sandlot
The 1993 movie about a summer of neighborhood baseball, where Squints famously chases a lifeguard far out of his league. The league line points at both.
The Shining
Stephen King's 1977 novel and Stanley Kubrick's 1980 film about a family snowed in at a haunted hotel. The song takes the title and the haunting, then turns shining into light and hope.
The Suite Life of Zack & Cody
The Disney Channel sitcom about twin brothers, played by Dylan and Cole Sprouse, growing up in a Boston hotel. He and his friend are that close.
The Wizard of Oz
In the 1939 film, Dorothy lands in Oz and realizes she isn't in Kansas anymore. He names himself its wizard, with rizz, slang for charm, swapped in.
Tina Fey
She starred with Steve Carell in Date Night (2010), a comedy about a married couple's evening out gone wrong. The comparison promises an evening that's funny from start to finish.
Tom Hanks
The two-time Oscar-winning actor. T. Hanks is his name and thanks at the same time, so the line says both.
Tracy Morgan
The comedian from Saturday Night Live and 30 Rock starred in The Last O.G., a TBS comedy about a man coming home from prison. That makes him the OG Tracy.
Two-Face
Batman's villain Harvey Dent, the district attorney with half his face scarred. His names are spread across the line in pieces.
Walter White
The chemistry teacher at the center of Breaking Bad, who goes by Walt. His name keeps the rhyme going between the Star Wars queen before it and the Warriors forward after it.
Warner Bros.
Bro and Warner in one line make Warner Bros., the Hollywood studio, one more Warner in the run.
Wendy Wu: Homecoming Warrior
The 2006 Disney Channel movie with Brenda Song as a teen who learns she's a destined warrior. The next line takes the warrior straight to basketball.
White Chicks
The 2004 Wayans brothers comedy where two Black FBI agents go undercover as white socialites. He's saying he has never pretended to be anyone but himself.
Willy Wonka
Roald Dahl's candy maker, played by Gene Wilder in 1971 and Johnny Depp in 2005. He invites her into a candy factory of his own.
Winning Time: The Rise of the Lakers Dynasty
HBO's series about the Showtime Lakers of the 1980s, where the shout is aimed at the Boston Celtics, the Lakers' great rival.
Wolverine
Logan is Wolverine's real name and the title of his 2017 film. Put ex and man together and you get the X-Men, the team he's best known for.
Zendaya
The actress from Euphoria and Spider-Man. Charades is acting things out, so she's putting on an act, playing a part the way Zendaya does for a living.
Anime and cartoons
Aladdin
Disney's 1992 animated film about a street kid who wins over Princess Jasmine. A friend gets the Aladdin comparison, which leaves him looking for a Jasmine of his own.
Ariel
The mermaid from Disney's The Little Mermaid. Calling her his Ariel keeps the album's water theme going.
Bart Simpson
Bart ends one line and simp starts the next, spelling out the Simpsons kid. A simp is slang for a guy who bends over backward for a girl, which he says he isn't.
Beyblade
The spinning-top toy and anime, where tops are launched with a ripcord and a shout to let it rip. He starts things right away, the same way.
Black Clover
The anime and manga about Asta, a boy born with no magic in a world that runs on it. That's why the next line shrugs magic off.
Bo Peep
The porcelain shepherdess in Pixar's Toy Story films and Woody's love interest. Wood is also slang for an erection, so the cowboy's name hides inside a dirty joke.
Brother Bear
Disney's 2003 animated film about a young hunter who is turned into a bear and learns what being a brother means. That's how he feels about his friends.
Bugs Bunny
The Looney Tunes rabbit hides in this line: bugging gives his name, and the carat she wants on her ring sounds like his carrot.
Buster Baxter
The rabbit who's Arthur's best friend on the PBS cartoon Arthur.
Buzz Lightyear
The space ranger from Toy Story, whose catchphrase is about flying to infinity and beyond. The line hides his full name along with that promise of forever, and a buzz is also the high from the smoking a few lines up.
Casper the Friendly Ghost
The friendly ghost from the classic cartoons and the 1995 movie. In his love life, the women end up ghosting him.
Chrollo Lucilfer
The calm, sharp-dressed leader of the Phantom Troupe in Hunter x Hunter. He borrows the character's cool.
Cleveland Brown
Peter Griffin's neighbor on Family Guy, who got his own spinoff, The Cleveland Show, in 2009. Saying he's no family guy sets up the name.
Dennis the Menace
Hank Ketcham's comic strip kid who leaves trouble everywhere he goes. She's no more blameless than Dennis.
Dexter's Laboratory
The Cartoon Network show about a boy genius with a secret lab and a sister, Dee Dee, who keeps wrecking it. It leads straight into him at work in his own lab.
Frozone
The ice-making superhero voiced by Samuel L. Jackson in Pixar's The Incredibles. He shows up right after a call to stop cold, and his name kicks off a run of rhymes.
Gravity Falls
The Disney cartoon about twins Dipper and Mabel Pines spending a summer in a strange Oregon town. Leaving becomes a pun on Dipper's name, which makes Mabel his sister.
Ichigo Kurosaki
The orange-haired hero of the anime and manga Bleach. Bleaching skin is the setup for the show's name.
Inspector Gadget
The 1980s cartoon detective with a tool for every situation. His name is split across two lines.
Invader Zim
The Nickelodeon cartoon about a tiny, furious alien sent to conquer Earth. The show's title is what he says he did.
Invincible (TV series)
Amazon's animated series about Mark Grayson, a teenage superhero whose father, Omni-Man, comes from an alien race called the Viltrumites. In the first season's finale, Omni-Man beats Mark nearly to death. Valerian is his name for the Viltrumites, and the kid is Mark.
Krusty Krab Training Video (SpongeBob SquarePants)
The 2002 SpongeBob episode where a fish keeps yelling hoopla at the narrator until someone knocks him out with a brick. The scream is his.
Lilo & Stitch
In the Disney film, Nani is Lilo's older sister and Stitch is the alien Lilo adopts. A vintage single-stitch tee brings in Stitch, then Nani and Lilo follow.
Looney Tunes
The Warner Bros. cartoon series, and the beeping sound is the Road Runner's. Looney here means crazy about him, and he puts his name in the middle of the title.
Lovelace (Happy Feet)
The rockhopper penguin guru in Happy Feet, the 2006 movie about a penguin who tap dances, voiced by Robin Williams. Happy feet is how he moves.
Magic Conch (SpongeBob SquarePants)
The toy shell in SpongeBob SquarePants that answers whatever you ask it. That's where he goes for advice.
Marlin
The clownfish father in Finding Nemo, who crosses the ocean to find his son. The search pays off in the end, and that's the promise here.
Maurice (Madagascar)
King Julien's right-hand lemur in Madagascar. She wants a king, and Maurice serves one.
Mickey and Minnie Mouse
Disney's original couple, together since 1928. She's nowhere near that to him.
Mojo Jojo
The chimp villain of The Powerpuff Girls, who got his powers from the same Chemical X accident that made the girls. He splits the name in two to say her love gave him powers of his own.
Monkey D. Luffy
The rubber-bodied pirate of the anime One Piece, whose powers come from the Gum-Gum Fruit. One Piece is told island by island, and he's standing on one by himself.
Observation Haki
In One Piece, Haki is a fighter's willpower turned into power, and Observation Haki lets the user sense what others are about to do. He's reading her the same way.
One Piece
The long-running pirate anime, known for filler, the episodes that pad out a show without moving the story. He wanted the real thing from her and got padding.
Peter Pan
He finishes fast and flies off like J.M. Barrie's boy who never grows up. The lines are stocked like a pantry too: a spoon, a nut, Jif tucked inside jiffy, and Peter Pan, which is also a peanut butter brand.
Pinocchio
The puppet whose nose grows whenever he lies, and who dreams of being a real boy. In bed, where they lie, something grows, and he swears it's real.
Plankton
The tiny villain from SpongeBob SquarePants, married to a computer named Karen, who turns up in the next line. Hoping the relationship holds up becomes a plank, the core exercise, hidden in his name.
Popeye
The sailor cartoon who gets his strength from spinach. Strong is slang for potent weed, and spinach stands in for what he's smoking.
Randy Cunningham: 9th Grade Ninja
The hero of Disney XD's Randy Cunningham: 9th Grade Ninja, a freshman who's secretly his town's ninja. People acting undercover are like him.
Raven (Teen Titans)
The quiet, hooded member of the Teen Titans in the Cartoon Network series. With a hood up, he's her.
Rick and Morty
The Adult Swim cartoon about a reckless scientist and his grandson hopping between planets and dimensions. He flips the order of their names to land the rhyme.
Sanjay and Craig
The Nickelodeon cartoon about a boy whose best friend is a talking snake. People who keep snakes as friends get the comparison.
Spike Spiegel
The laid-back bounty hunter at the center of the 1998 anime Cowboy Bebop. He names the show and its coolest character in one breath.
Tangled
Disney's 2010 animated take on Rapunzel. The title becomes wanting the two of them wrapped up together.
Tasmanian Devil (Looney Tunes)
Taz, the spinning, wild-eyed Tasmanian Devil from Looney Tunes. Looney also means crazy, so the cartoon's name and Taz's stare both say she's going wild for him.
Tigger
The bouncing tiger from Winnie the Pooh, a fair picture of how he moves on a beat.
Timmy Turner
The kid from Nickelodeon's The Fairly OddParents, known for his big pink cap. His own hat would never sit like that.
Tinker Bell
The fairy from Peter Pan. Pairing a bell with Tink spells out her full name, and a fairy tale follows in the next line.
Up (2009 film)
Pixar's 2009 film where an old widower ties thousands of balloons to his house and floats away. He pictures the two of them rising the same way.
Wendell Pleakley
Wendell Pleakley, the one-eyed alien from Disney's Lilo & Stitch. Cheeky can mean bold or point at her backside, and the one eye is a dirty joke about what he'd give her.
Wheezy
The squeaky toy penguin from Toy Story 2, named for the wheeze his broken squeaker makes.
Games
Amy Rose
The pink hedgehog of Sega's Sonic games. Her last name turns into rising up, and her pink fits the album's cherry blossoms.
Call of Duty
Activision's shooter series, where spinning all the way around before a sniper shot became the flashiest trick in online play. He spins for her the same way.
Dark Pit
The shadowy double of Pit from Nintendo's Kid Icarus: Uprising, and a fighter in Super Smash Bros., where his side attack is an electric punch called the Electroshock Arm. Shock is the link.
Fable (video game series)
Ex plus box sounds out Xbox, and Fable is the role-playing series Microsoft put out for that console. Locking her up turns into a game on his shelf.
Final Fantasy
Square Enix's long-running role-playing series. His last fantasy and the game's name are the same words, and the cloud his head was in is also Cloud, the hero of Final Fantasy VII.
Gill Grunt (Skylanders)
The fish-man with a harpoon gun from the Skylanders games. Skylanders toys only come into the game when you set them on the Portal of Power, a platform, and a platform is all he needed too.
Halo: Reach
Bungie's 2010 prequel in the Halo series. He wants a halo, the kind angels wear, and the game's title tells you it's out of his grasp.
Johnny Cage
The Hollywood action star fighter in Mortal Kombat, never without his sunglasses. Oakley shades make the match.
Kirby
Nintendo's pink hero, who swallows enemies whole to copy their powers.
Lester Crest
The hacker who plans the heists in Grand Theft Auto V. RP is the game's role-play servers, so the line stays in the game.
Madden NFL
EA Sports' long-running football video game. Her games are maddening, and Madden is where you call the plays.
Master Chief
The armored hero of Microsoft's Halo games. To chief is slang for smoking weed hard, so he's mastered that, and the name sets up the Halo line after it.
OpTic Gaming and FaZe Clan
OpTic and FaZe are rival Call of Duty teams who made their names on sniper trick shots. A scope and never being fazed put both in one line.
Princess Daisy
Princess Daisy and Princess Peach are the two princesses of Nintendo's Mario games, often paired up like sisters. Calling her Daisy lets the peach she sends him be both the other princess and an emoji.
Shadow the Hedgehog (video game)
Sega's 2005 game starring Sonic's dark rival, who, unusually for the series, carries guns. The line borrows that image for his crew.
Shy Guy
The masked, robed enemy from Nintendo's Mario games. Covered up and quiet, he's playing one.
Tekken 7
Bandai Namco's long-running fighting game series; its seventh entry came out in arcades in 2015 and on consoles in 2017. He names the number and the game in the same breath.
Tetris
The 1984 falling-block puzzle game where every piece has to slot into place.
The Legend of Zelda: The Wind Waker
Nintendo's GameCube Zelda, set on a flooded world where Link sails between islands and uses a baton to steer the wind. It's a fitting finale for a water album.
The Sims
EA's life-simulation game, where players run the lives of digital people. He'd rather meet face to face than date someone who only exists on a screen.
Tonk
A quick rummy card game that's a fixture at cookouts and card tables. Getting tonked means getting beaten, and dealing keeps the card game going in the same line.
Uka Uka
The evil floating mask in the Crash Bandicoot games, twin of Crash's protector Aku Aku. The game's hero is hiding in the same line.
Wii Nunchuk
The Nintendo Wii's second controller, which plugs into the main remote. He hears console inside reconcile, so making up means plugging back in.
Places
Atlanta, Georgia
Atlanta, Georgia. He opens by calling out the city, which is also where Clairo was born.
Barbados
Rihanna's home island in the eastern Caribbean. He borrows her albums and her accent in one line.
Bermuda Triangle
The stretch of the Atlantic between Miami, Bermuda and Puerto Rico, famous for stories of ships and planes vanishing. On an album named for a missing plane, it's where he wants to get lost with her.
Big Ben
The clock tower at the Houses of Parliament in London. Naming it is his way of saying he's watching the clock and wasting none of it.
Budapest
Buddha and pest put together make Budapest, Hungary's capital.
Carowinds
The amusement park on the North and South Carolina line outside Charlotte. Its coasters match the feeling of being on top of the world.
Flint, Michigan
The Michigan city whose tap water was contaminated with lead after a 2014 switch in its water source. Years later, he's still calling for it to be fixed.
Florida Panhandle
The strip of Florida that stretches west along the Gulf.
Halloween Horror Nights
Universal Orlando's fall event, built from haunted houses based on horror films and TV. It ties the whole run together.
Hooters
The restaurant chain, founded in Clearwater in 1983. He twists the saying about there being no I in team, then points to the two O's in its name.
Jamaica
The Caribbean island nation. He says he isn't from there, but its listeners treat him like he is.
Kumba (Busch Gardens Tampa)
The roller coaster at Busch Gardens Tampa. Its name means roar.
Leaning Tower of Pisa
The bell tower in Pisa, Italy, famous for its tilt. A doubled cup has someone leaning just like it.
Lenox Square
The upscale mall in Atlanta's Buckhead neighborhood. He calls the shoppers square before naming it, and Ari is Ariana Grande.
Los Angeles
Spanish for the angels. He calls her his angel, and Los starts the city's name.
Magic City (Atlanta)
Atlanta's best-known strip club, open since 1985 and famous in hip-hop for breaking hit records. Naming it puts her on its stage.
Miami, Florida
305 is Miami's area code, the number Pitbull built his Mr. 305 name on. With the sea in the same line, it puts the night on a Miami beach.
Nicaragua
The Central American country where the CIA backed rebels against the government in the 1980s. It caps a run of Spanish in the verse.
Nile River
The longest river in Africa, and the setup for the old pun on denial. It also keeps the water imagery going.
Norway
Said out loud, the country sounds like no way. The trip she wants and the love she never had for him come down to the same answer.
Ocean Drive
The Art Deco strip along South Beach in Miami Beach, lined with neon-lit hotels. It's the trip he wants to take with her.
Orlando, Florida
Orlando's nickname. She's from there.
Prime Meridian
The line of zero longitude through Greenwich, England, where the world's time zones start. Being left there means starting over from zero, and Meridian sets up the rhyme with the title.
Princeton University
The Ivy League university in New Jersey. A girl who's too good for him turns into a school in the most famous league in college.
Rochester, New York
The city in upstate New York on Lake Ontario, a long way from Florida.
St. Anthony's Hospital
The hospital in St. Pete, used here for a crude joke about her throat.
St. Petersburg, Florida
SyWavy's hometown, called the Burg by locals. Heading back there is where Wavy Life ends up.
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The Dakotas
North Dakota and South Dakota are stacked on the map. Heading downhill and then looking up takes him from one to the other.
The Dalí Museum
The Spanish surrealist known for melting clocks. The largest collection of his work outside Europe is at The Dalí Museum in downtown St. Pete, so naming him right after the Burg is a hometown nod.
The Twilight Zone Tower of Terror
The elevator drop ride at Disney's Hollywood Studios, part of Walt Disney World in Florida. The title trades its terror for tears, and the elevator a few lines later rides the same shaft.
Tijuana
The Mexican border city, with the juana from marijuana in it, right after rolling up. Rolling flats also makes it Tijuana Flats, the Tex-Mex chain that started in Florida.
Tropicana Field
The domed ballpark in St. Petersburg where the Tampa Bay Rays play, called the Trop by locals. Dome is also slang for your head, so he's stuck in his thoughts and stuck in his hometown at once.
Turks and Caicos Islands
The Caribbean islands southeast of the Bahamas, a getaway spot. The name also rhymes with closing a case.
University of California, Berkeley
The University of California, Berkeley, one of the country's top schools. Brain is also slang for oral sex, so the compliment works two ways.
Weeki Wachee Springs
The spring north of Tampa Bay famous for its live mermaid shows since 1947. It brings the water imagery to a Florida landmark.
Brands and fashion
A Bathing Ape
The Tokyo streetwear label known as BAPE, whose shark-face hoodie became its signature piece. He goes from the ocean to its predator to the hoodie in three quick steps.
Achieva Credit Union
The credit union based in Dunedin, near St. Pete. Its name was on the soccer jersey he wore as a kid.
Acne Studios
The Stockholm label known for its jeans and clean, minimal clothes.
Air Jordan 14 Laney
The Laney colorway of Michael Jordan's 14th shoe is named for his high school in Wilmington, North Carolina. The number doubles as a rating that goes past ten.
Altoids
The strong peppermints that come in a tin. Fresh means dressed up and minty at the same time.
Amazon Alexa
Amazon's voice assistant, there every time you call its name. That's how dependable he wanted her to be.
Aston Martin
The British luxury car maker. He stretches its name across two lines, sound by sound.
Balmain
The French luxury house founded in Paris in 1945, known for sharp, embellished tailoring. Said out loud, it's also bail, man: she's about to walk out on him.
Barbie
Mattel's doll, and Ken, her boyfriend since 1961. If she's the perfect doll, he's the one made to stand next to her.
Barrett Firearms
The Tennessee gun maker behind the best-known .50 caliber rifle. Cal also points west to California, and the brand lands as the punchline.
Benihana
The Japanese steakhouse chain where the chef chops and cooks at your table. Chopping it up is also slang for talking.
Bic
The lighter maker, whose 1970s ads made flick my Bic a catchphrase.
Bing
Microsoft's search engine, the one almost nobody picks first. Looking there for how the story ends is a joke about having tried everything else.
Birkin bag
The Hermès Birkin, a handbag with long waitlists and five-figure prices. She brings it up as she's heading out the door.
Blazy Susan
The pink rolling paper brand.
Bleacher Report
The sports news site. Report and bleachers land back to back to spell it out, and bleach is what you'd reach for after a stain.
Bleu de Chanel
Chanel's men's fragrance, launched in 2010. Bleu is French for blue, so the cologne doubles as a mood he says he isn't in.
Bloomingdale's
The New York department store, part of a closet he talks about like home.
BlueChew
BlueChew sells chewable pills for erections online. True blue means loyal, but adding chew turns it into the brand, and the next line says what it's for.
Bud Light
He smokes bud, meaning weed, but won't drink Bud Light, the beer split across the line. It lands in a run of drinks with Corona and seltzer.
Build-A-Bear Workshop
At Build-A-Bear, every stuffed animal gets a small heart placed inside before it's sewn up. He hands his over the same way.
Carhartt
The Detroit workwear brand whose canvas pants and jackets turned into streetwear staples. Its pants turn into panting on the next line.
Carolina Herrera
The Venezuelan-born designer and the New York fashion house she built, also known for perfumes like Good Girl. Later he splits the name around spraying it, a nod to the fragrances.
Cayman Jack
The canned margarita and cocktail brand, its name flipped around. It lands right after she's gotten drunk on seltzer.
Chanel
The Paris fashion house Coco Chanel founded, whose logo is two interlocking C's. Its most famous perfume, No. 5, gets a nod three lines down.
Chevrolet Impala
Chevy's long-running full-size sedan, named for an African antelope. That's why he talks about taming it, and the back end makes it a sex joke too.
Chrome Hearts
The Los Angeles luxury label known for heavy silver jewelry covered in gothic crosses. He goes for the chunkiest ones.
Cirque du Soleil
The Montreal circus company famous for its acrobats and contortionists. She's that flexible.
Comme des Garçons
Rei Kawakubo's Tokyo label, a pillar of experimental fashion. She wants the clothes but won't show love for the music.
Corona Extra
The Mexican beer sold with beaches and waves. A beer in one line and extra in the next make its full name.
Crown Royal
The Canadian whisky in the purple bag. Right after a line about drinking, crown and royal give its name, and calling himself royalty is the boast.
Dapper Dan
The Harlem tailor who remade luxury logos for hip-hop stars in the 1980s and now works with Gucci. He sets his Florida style apart from the Harlem original's.
Denim Tears
Tremaine Emory's label, known for jeans printed with cotton wreaths that speak to Black American history. Too many jeans sounds like too many genes.
Dior
The French fashion house, whose menswear line was long called Dior Homme. The line trades that for a home of his own.
Dodge Challenger SRT Hellcat
Dodge's Hellcat and Demon are supercharged muscle cars known for their loud whine. He describes a sound that big, then says cars don't mean much to him anymore.
Dolce & Gabbana
The Milan fashion house known by its initials, sunglasses included.
Downy Unstopables
Downy's laundry scent beads. Anyone who acts invincible gets compared to fabric softener.
Dsquared2
The fashion label run out of Milan by Canadian twin brothers Dean and Dan Caten. He shrugs it off as everyday wear.
Dunkin'
The donut and coffee chain. Dunkin' sets up a slam dunk, and slam is also slang for the men she sleeps with.
Dutch Masters
Dutch Masters cigars are a favorite for rolling blunts, which fits a reply sent in smoke. Going Dutch also means splitting the cost.
Face and book, two lines apart, make Facebook, and the poke was its old button for nudging someone. Getting booked is also what follows a case.
Fandango
The website for buying movie tickets. A speeding ticket turns into the kind you pay for online.
Fenty Beauty
Rihanna's makeup line, known for its lip gloss. A kiss tastes like it.
Fisher-Price
The baby and toddler toy brand. Picturing her as the mother of his kids sends him to the toy aisle, and Fisher-Price belongs to Mattel, the maker of the doll two lines later.
Frosted Flakes
Tony the Tiger is the face of Kellogg's Frosted Flakes, so tiger leads right into flake, slang for bailing on someone. Bailing is what he says he won't do.
FUBU
The streetwear label Daymond John and his friends started in Queens in 1992. Its name stands for For Us, By Us.
G-Man (T-shirt brand)
The T-shirt brand you find at gas stations. He'd rather wear one than shop at Neiman Marcus.
GameStop
The video game chain known for offering very little when you trade in a game. He has nothing to offer in a trade either.
Hampton Inn
Hilton's midrange hotel chain. He'd book a room just for her.
Harley-Davidson
The motorcycle maker, named for founders William Harley and Arthur Davidson. He rules out Pete Davidson, the comedian, and takes the bike instead.
Helmut Lang
The Austrian designer and his minimal label, a 1990s favorite. On a song about bikes, his first name turns into a helmet.
Hermès
The French fashion house behind the Birkin, known for its H logo. She wants all of it, from the logo on up.
Hermès Birkin
Hermès's handbag, one of the most expensive and hardest to get in fashion. She wants one while an older man's money comes from the stock market.
Hi-Chew
A chewy fruit candy from Japan. Said aloud it sounds like a sneeze, and a sneeze gets a blessing, which is the joke.
iMessage
Apple's messaging app shows texts in blue bubbles. Green means the message went as a plain text, which usually happens when you've been blocked or the other phone is off.
Intel
The computer chip maker. He wants the inside story, then makes clear he doesn't mean the processors.
JNCO
The '90s jeans brand famous for enormous leg openings, back in style with the Y2K revival.
Kawasaki
The Japanese motorcycle maker. The song opens on a rival bike before settling on Yamaha, and every ride in it means two things.
Keurig
Keurig's single-serve coffee pods. A few lines after nodding off, he's propping himself up with two stimulants at once.
Kevlar
The DuPont fiber used in bulletproof vests. A mind made of it can take a hit, and that's the toughness he's had to grow.
Kinko's
The copy shop chain, now FedEx Office. Even a copy shop couldn't make another one of him.
Ksubi
An Australian denim label known for its skinny jeans. Its name is said without the K, which is the joke.
Line 6
The California maker of guitar amps and effects, one more piece of music gear in a song built on Yamaha's double life.
Logan's Roadhouse
The steakhouse chain famous for free buckets of peanuts on every table. Nut has a dirtier meaning too, and that's the real joke.
Mercedes-Benz
The German luxury carmaker. A full plate becomes a license plate, the first car image in a song built on speed.
Microsoft Office
Points that have power make PowerPoint, and his word makes Word: two Microsoft Office programs in one line.
Moncler
The luxury label from the French Alps, best known for its down puffer jackets. He's freezing without one.
Neiman Marcus
The Dallas luxury department store. He splits its name across lines while saying he's never shopped there.
Netflix
Flix is Netflix, and the line is the Netflix and chill joke: a movie's on, and nobody's watching it.
New Balance
The Boston sneaker brand, a menswear favorite again. With baggy vintage pants, it sets the look.
Nike
The sportswear giant, named for the Greek goddess of victory, right after he compares his build to Greek myth. Its swoosh is a check mark, which is how checking becomes Nike.
Nike Air Max
Nike's best-known running shoe line. The swoosh is shaped like a check mark, so maxing out and checking are one joke.
October's Very Own
October's Very Own, Drake's label and clothing line, known for its owl logo.
Off-White
Virgil Abloh's fashion label. A shirt that has faded is not that, and he says so.
Old Spice
The men's grooming brand, whose ads end with a whistled sailor tune. The whistle a couple of lines earlier sets it up.
OnlyFans
The subscription site where fans pay creators. He flips the name: he's her only fan, and he's never paid.
Paco Rabanne Invictus
Paco Rabanne's 2013 men's fragrance, named for the Latin word for unconquered. He wears the word the way he wears the scent.
Palm Angels
The streetwear label Francesco Ragazzi started in Milan in 2015. A brand named for angels should come with working wings, and he says these don't, so he's out.
Pepto-Bismol
The bright pink stomach medicine. His new sweater is the same shade.
Pilot G2
The gel pen from Japan's Pilot, known for how smoothly it writes. A poet's ink glides out of a G2, and the next line takes off as a G6.
The site people use to collect outfit and decor ideas. The jab is that her look came straight off someone else's board.
Plan B One-Step
The morning-after pill. Cycle means a bad habit to the first woman and a period to the second, and the pill shows up right after.
Poland Spring
The bottled water brand from Maine, at home on an album about water.
Polaroid
The instant camera. Shaking the photo to develop it was made famous by OutKast's Hey Ya!, though Polaroid itself said not to.
Polo Bear (Ralph Lauren)
Ralph Lauren's teddy bear mascot, knit into its sweaters since 1991.
Polo Ralph Lauren
Ralph Lauren's shirt label, a staple for well-dressed guys in hip-hop for decades.
Prada
The Milan fashion house, here a bag he hands over. Said fast, the name and the word after it sound like proud of you.
QVC
The TV shopping channel lets buyers split a price into monthly payments, and its sister channel HSN, based in St. Pete, calls that FlexPay. Paying over time means not paying upfront, and upfront is also what she isn't with him.
Raf Simons
The Belgian designer whose adidas line made the chunky Ozweego runner a fashion staple. He opens the song in a pair.
Ralph Lauren
The American fashion house, welded here to a denim label to make one name.
Range Rover
The British luxury SUV. Drop the last letter and it's rove, to wander off, which is what he's doing.
Rick Owens
The California-born designer known for dark, draped clothes and sculpted sneakers. She wants his look head to toe.
Salvatore Ferragamo
The Italian luxury house, known for leather shoes and belts. He ranks it above Coach, the American leather brand, as the difference between aiming high and aiming low.
Sean John
The clothing line Sean Combs started in 1998. After Combs's 2024 arrest, he wants no part of it and dresses his own way.
SeatGeek
The app for buying tickets to games and concerts. He's offering her the best seat in the house.
Shake Weight
A vibrating dumbbell sold on late-night TV around 2010 that became a running joke for how its two-handed workout looked.
Six Flags
The theme park chain known for its roller coasters, keeping the song's ride going. Six flags on a person are also six red flags.
Smucker's
The Ohio company best known for its jams and jellies. To jam out is to play music loud, so turning up a song lands on Smucker's.
Snickers
Snickers' long-running ads tell people they aren't themselves when they're hungry, then hand them a candy bar. He makes the same offer.
Sour Patch Kids
Patch and sour make Sour Patch Kids, the candy, on an EP called Ear Candi.
Star Crunch
Little Debbie's chocolate-covered snack cake of crispy rice and caramel.
Sweet'N Low
The sugar substitute in pink packets, which people flick before tearing open. The pack in the line gets the same treatment.
Target
The retailer's logo is a red bullseye. Sharing a location that lands dead center is the pun.
The North Face
The outdoor brand known for its puffer jackets. Asking her to warm him up like one makes her his coat.
Time Warner
The media giant that became WarnerMedia after AT&T bought it in 2018, while its cable arm became Spectrum. A company that changed its name, like the person in the line.
Tory Burch
The American fashion label known for flats and sandals with a double T logo. Her pair is a yellow shade.
Toucan Sam
The Froot Loops mascot with a rainbow beak. Fruity and a rainbow read as the pride flag, since she likes girls.
Triller
The short video app that courted musicians in 2020 as a TikTok rival. A snippet posted there doubles as calling the song a thriller.
Trix
The General Mills cereal whose ads always end with the rabbit being told it's only for kids. Trix also sounds like tricks, so he's past playing games too.
Trojan (condom brand)
Trojan is a condom brand, and the USC Trojans are a college sports power, so playing ball leads to both. Rubbers keeps the joke going.
True Religion
The Los Angeles denim brand known for the horseshoe stitching on its back pockets. It's the other half of the blend.
UPS
The delivery company, followed by down, so it hides ups and downs, with no mail coming.
Vetements
The Paris fashion label co-founded by Demna. Said out loud, its name sounds close to vitamins, which is the joke.
Vicks VapoRub
The Procter & Gamble chest rub that clears stuffy airways, which ties back to his cough earlier in the song. He hopes she'll open up to him the same way.
Victoria's Secret PINK
PINK is Victoria's Secret's label for younger shoppers. With secrets earlier in the line, pink means the brand and something more private.
Vine
Twitter's six-second video app, shut down in 2017. Six seconds is also how long he lasted with her, which is the joke.
Virgil Abloh
The designer who founded Off-White and later led menswear at Louis Vuitton; he died in 2021. An Off-White blazer was made by him, so the line credits him as the one who made it.
VLONE
The streetwear label from the A$AP Mob circle, known for its big orange V. Its name comes from the motto live alone, die alone, so it's what he's wearing now that he's by himself.
Von Dutch
The trucker-hat brand that defined early-2000s celebrity style. Orange is the Dutch national color, which fits the orange fit, and a Dutch is a cigar people roll up with.
Whirlpool
The appliance maker best known for its washers. Next to the window in the title, the heartbreak becomes the view through a washing machine's glass door, everything inside tumbling.
X (formerly Twitter)
The social network once called Twitter. Said out loud, X is also ex, which is what she is now, quietly watching what he posts.
Yamaha
The Japanese name on motorcycles and on pianos and keyboards. The song rides both meanings: the bike and the keys.
Zegna
The Italian menswear house known for fine tailoring.
Zumba
The Latin dance workout that filled gyms in the 2000s.
People
Amelia Earhart
The aviation pioneer who disappeared over the Pacific in 1937. Fly means stylish here and also points to flight, the imagery Jett2Fly's name brings into the music.
Benjamin Franklin
Benjamins are $100 bills, which carry Franklin's face, so the Button line turns into money. Frankly, on the next line, finishes his name.
Bill Gates
Microsoft's co-founder. The lines split his name: the gates he hopes his friends reach, then no bill.
DJ Envy
The New York DJ and co-host of the morning radio show The Breakfast Club. The line spells out the show's name across a date.
Druski
The Atlanta comedian known for viral skits as a shameless hustler, including his fake record label, Coulda Been Records. Moving like him means moving like a punchline.
Emerson (The Part Time Models)
A member of The Part Time Models, who's in the Put It On! video.
Harriet Tubman
The abolitionist who led enslaved people north on the Underground Railroad. Coming up from underground, he takes her name.
Harry Houdini
The escape artist who could get out of anything. Pulling a Houdini means slipping away without a trace.
India Love
The model and social media personality. Her name sounds like the next line's confession, which swaps her out for the person he's actually fallen for.
Jeff Bezos
Amazon's founder, and his name stands for money here. Prime Student is Amazon's cheaper plan for college students, and two-day shipping is what made Prime famous, so these lines all run through his company.
Joe Biden
When this came out in August 2020, Biden was days from accepting the Democratic nomination for president, and his gaffes were a running joke. A quote nobody can place gets pinned on him.
John Gotti
The New York mob boss, nicknamed the Dapper Don for his expensive suits. Being the freshest on Gotti means dressing like him.
King Bach
Andrew Bachelor, the comedian who was the most-followed star on Vine, where every video ran six seconds. That's how long she gets before he texts.
LaVar Ball
The outspoken father of NBA players Lonzo and LaMelo Ball. Ball is the family name, and raising sons is his claim to fame, which turns into a boast about treating rivals like his kids.
Marcus Garvey
The Jamaican-born leader of the 1920s Back to Africa movement and a lasting symbol of Black pride. He prescribes him for someone who's lost touch with her roots.
Martin Luther King Jr.
The civil rights leader whose 1963 speech at the March on Washington is remembered for its dream. Here it's Jett2Fly sharing a dream for their music.
Mia Khalifa
Going M.I.A. means disappearing, and with Khalifa after it the letters spell Mia Khalifa, the internet personality who first got famous for adult films.
Nick Saban
The football coach who won six national titles at Alabama, a school whose logo is a single capital A. The grade he earns doubles as that logo.
Nigo
The Japanese designer who founded BAPE in 1993 and later became artistic director of Kenzo. Naming the founder right after the brand fits an album built on Japan.
Pope Leo XIV
Robert Prevost, elected in May 2025 as the first pope from the United States, was born in Chicago. He says he isn't from there, and the next line says where he is from.
Saddam Hussein
Iraq's leader from 1979 to 2003. Hussein rhymes with insane, and Usain does it again in the next line.
Stan Lee
The Marvel Comics co-creator of Spider-Man and the X-Men. Stanley is both the drink tumbler everyone was carrying and hockey's championship trophy, and comics bring it around to Stan Lee.
Stephen A. Smith
The ESPN host of First Take, the debate show where he argued with Skip Bayless for years, so Skip shows up in the line before. A first take is also a song recorded right on the first try.
Takashi Murakami
The Japanese artist behind the smiling flowers, the cover of Kanye West's Graduation and years of Louis Vuitton bags. A tidal wave of his work suits someone named Wavy.
Tom Joyner
The radio host whose Tom Joyner Morning Show ran on Black radio for 25 years, until 2019. A morning conversation calls up his name.
Tutankhamun
The Egyptian boy king whose tomb, found in 1922, was full of gold, including his famous mask. He's looking at gold the way the people who opened it did.
Tyra Banks
The supermodel who created and hosted America's Next Top Model. Running away said quickly sounds like runway, and her last name keeps the money talk going after the change.
Umar Johnson
The Philadelphia psychologist and speaker who tells Black men not to date outside their race. He quotes him and goes after white women anyway, and Johnson, slang for a penis, finishes the man's name.
Vladimir Putin
Russia's president. Rushing sounds like Russian, so turning down Putin is his way of saying don't hurry him.
Everything else
0.5 selfie
Phone cameras' 0.5x ultra-wide lens drove a 2022 trend of stretched, up-close photos. He plays the camera's zoom against drifting off.
Adam and Eve
In the Book of Genesis, God makes Eve from one of Adam's ribs. He blames his sore side on her, casting himself as Adam.
Alpha Kappa Alpha
AKA is the first Black Greek-letter sorority, founded at Howard University in 1908. Greek here means sorority, not the country.
Astaghfirullah
Arabic for I seek forgiveness from God, said after a mistake. He follows it with an apology to his mother.
Baker Act
Florida's Baker Act lets police or doctors hold someone for a mental health check, and getting Baker Acted is everyday talk in the state. He flips the words around to say the other guy was acting like he needed one.
Bantu knots
A protective hairstyle of small coiled knots, named for the Bantu-speaking peoples of Africa. Knot also sounds like not, so they're tied together and not together in the same breath.
Bedroom pop
Soft, close-up pop recorded at home on simple gear, with Clairo as one of its best-known names. He turns the genre's name into a double meaning about what happens in his room.
Bunraku
Traditional Japanese puppet theater from Osaka, where the puppeteers work in plain sight. It shows up right after strings, next to a bit of French.
Catch flights, not feelings
A popular saying about traveling instead of getting attached. The title swaps feelings for crying, and he admits he does both.
Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
The federal health agency whose guidelines everyone followed during the pandemic. He splits that word in two and offers to be the one who leads.
Corinthians
Two letters from the apostle Paul in the New Testament; the first holds the well-known passage on love read at many weddings. Here it rhymes with Caribbeans.
Crème brûlée
The French custard dessert with a crackled sugar top. It turns a plain word French: we sounds like oui.
Cuban link chain
The thick, tightly woven chain that's a staple of hip-hop jewelry. He jokes that his Cuban talks in Spanish, then plays on link as in meeting up.
DDT (professional wrestling)
A wrestling move where you lock an opponent's head and fall backward, driving it into the mat, made famous by Jake Roberts. It keeps the wrestling going from the Stone Cold line.
Deadstock
Sneaker and resale slang for old stock that was never sold or worn, still new in the box. His trust is just that, and the rusted love after it is trusted love missing its T.
Desert Eagle
The heavy pistol known as the Deagle, made famous by movies and games like Counter-Strike. In this song, it's his name for her.
Ding dong ditch
The prank of ringing a doorbell and running before anyone answers. He flips the words around in a run of memories.
Don Dada
Jamaican slang for the boss of bosses, made famous by dancehall star Super Cat's 1992 album of that name. A cigar in his mouth completes the look.
Dutty Wine
A Jamaican dancehall move built on fast neck rolls, made famous by Tony Matterhorn's 2006 song of the same name.
Eid
Eid al-Fitr is the feast at the end of Ramadan, the month of fasting from sunrise to sunset. Going without food leads to the end of the fast, and Eid sounds a lot like eat.
Five Pillars of Islam
The five core practices of Islam: the declaration of faith, daily prayer, charity, fasting during Ramadan, and the pilgrimage to Mecca.
Florida panther
Florida's state animal, an endangered big cat that survives in the swamps and forests of South Florida. As a Floridian he should be one, but he picks the red panda, another animal on the brink.
Genovese crime family
One of the Five Families of the New York Mafia, known for keeping its business quiet. Secrecy is the family code.
Guinness World Records
The yearly book of world records. He's chasing records too, the kind made in a studio.
H-E-double-hockey-sticks
The playground way of spelling out hell without saying it. She's heaven-sent, so there's none of that here, and the hockey sticks bring in a puck, one letter off a swear, and pucker, what lips do before a kiss.
I've Got the Joy (Sunday school song)
The Sunday school song I've Got the Joy, Joy, Joy, Joy (Down in My Heart). The song's title, the joy piled on joy and the gospel sample all point back to it, with his soul in place of the heart.
Indianapolis 500
The century-old Memorial Day weekend race, 200 laps around the Indianapolis Motor Speedway. He treats the night like a race.
Inshallah
Arabic for if God wills it, said about anything hoped for in the future. He uses it about a future with her.
Jack and the Beanstalk
In the English fairy tale, the giant chants four nonsense words before he smells Jack. He breaks the chant apart so its third word turns into an enemy.
Jamaican Patois
The English-based language spoken across Jamaica, which dancehall carried around the world.
Jawn
Philadelphia slang that can stand in for almost any noun. Here it means people he used to know.
Jit
Southern slang for a young guy, heard most in Florida. He uses it for the man who did her wrong.
King Midas
The king from Greek myth who turned everything he touched into gold.
Lookup table (LUT)
In video editing, a LUT is a preset that sets the color and mood of footage. SyWavy also directs, and he asks for more of her the way an editor reaches for a favorite look.
Malaysia Airlines Flight 370
The Malaysia Airlines flight that disappeared over the Indian Ocean in March 2014 with 239 people aboard; its main wreckage has never been found. The album borrows only its name and the image of something vanishing, and here he signs the song with the album's title.
Mashallah
Arabic for what God has willed, said to admire something good while giving the credit away. He pairs it with staying humble.
Mason jar
The glass canning jar John Landis Mason patented in 1858. Leaving a door ajar sets up the jar.
Mi casa es su casa
Spanish for my house is your house, a way of saying what's mine is yours. Split across two lines, it's a jab about the girl he says he passed along to the other guy.
Monarch butterfly
Nerves feel like butterflies in your stomach, and he upgrades his to monarchs, the best-known butterfly in America.
NASCAR
American stock car racing, run out of Daytona Beach, Florida, home of the Daytona 500. It fits a song about steering.
Nival
A rare word for anything to do with snow. He uses it to say his outfit keeps him ice cold.
Offensive line
In football, the offensive line exists to block. Here the term stands in for being blocked online by an ex.
Passenger princess
Internet slang for a partner who always rides up front while someone else drives.
People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals
People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals, the group that campaigns against leather and fur. He wears it anyway.
Pop Warner Little Scholars
The national youth football league, named for coach Glenn Pop Warner. A sack counts on the field and off it.
Rapunzel
The Brothers Grimm fairy tale about a girl locked in a tower who lets down her long hair. On a song built on towers, it's the way up.
RMS Titanic
The ocean liner that sank on its first voyage in 1912. To ship a couple is fan slang for rooting for them, so the relationship becomes a ship, and he's afraid it's going down like this one.
Royal Rumble
WWE's yearly match where wrestlers enter one at a time and get tossed over the top rope until one is left. Getting knocked out turns into a wrestling event.
Runtz (cannabis strain)
A popular weed strain named after Runts, the fruit candy. Poppin can mean doing well, and it's also what you do with candy.
Shamu
The name SeaWorld gave its star orcas, the face of its parks, including SeaWorld Orlando. He reaches for the biggest splash he can think of.
Shundor
In Bengali, shundor means beautiful. He uses it as a name for himself, signs this song off with it, and brings it back on Life is Verses.
Smudging
Burning sage, often called smudging, is a ritual for clearing a space of bad energy. He credits her with doing that for him at his worst.
Sneaky link
Slang for someone you hook up with in secret. The phrase spread across social media in 2020, the year this came out.
SOS
The Morse code distress signal, often said to stand for a plea to save souls. Sending one fits an album named for a missing plane.
The Winter's Tale
Shakespeare's late play about a king whose jealous accusations nearly destroy his family. Asking if she's Winter when she starts telling stories turns the title into a dig.
Twin flame
A New Age idea, popular online, that two people can share one soul split in half, a step past soulmates. He waves the idea away.
Type beat
Instrumentals sold online and labeled after famous artists so anyone can sound like them. He doesn't use them, since Jett2Fly makes his beats.
Vince Lombardi Trophy
The trophy that goes to the Super Bowl champion, so calling himself super leads straight to it. The line opens on a nod to Playboi Carti, the Atlanta rapper known for yelped one-word ad-libs.
Wagwan
Jamaican patois for what's going on, now common slang in London and Toronto too. The intro leans into patois before the verse starts.
Wallah
Arabic for I swear to God. Closing the verse with it, he swears every word is true.
Wallahi
Arabic for I swear to God, and common slang for insisting something is true. He says it two ways back to back, and coming right after a ta-da, wallah also sounds like voilà, the magician's there it is.
World's smallest violin
The joke of rubbing two fingers together to play a tiny violin for someone's sob story. He plays one for a sad story, which means he isn't moved.
Yak
Slang for cognac, Hennessy above all.