Poppin (2015)

A hundred commas

Poppin (2015)
Stacks on stacks
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Man I swear to God these pussies soft like a moth
Weezy baby, diaper off, different cloth, different thoughts

Sippin syrup like it's broth, life is short
Tart, fuck his bitch, whip his kids, drive his car

I'm grindin, tryina stack a hundred commas
Just popped a combo I aint talkin bout McDonalds, woah


I don't think I've ever heard anyone use moth as a simile for soft. He probably just needed something that fit the rhyme scheme. It works though, they even look like they would be soft to the touch. Wayne is the Bob Ross of happy little rhymes.

A couple other things worth noting: diaper off is his way of saying he's moved on from his "baby" status, and is on to something different now. The syrup isn't changing though, and the way he compares it to broth makes it seem like it's something that nourishes him, even though it's not necessarily healthy.

It's not very clear who the "he" is in "fuck his bitch, etc". Sources say he's personifying the short and tart life, and treating it whatever way he wants. Makes sense I guess, but I feel like something is missing just because Wayne is usually a lot clearer with these kinds of things. Along the same lines though, it's also not clear what kind of combo he just popped. My first impression was that he just killed two people, and I went along with that as something standard. It might make more sense that the combo was of a pharmaceutical nature, so maybe a couple Xans? Very mysterious.

My favorite image here is one of stacking commas. A hundred of them, specifically. I guess a comma implies something like a thousand dollars. Or a thousand times more dollars than what's already there? Like a single number with a hundred commas? Either way it's a potentially astronomical amount of money. All in one little rhyme.