Smell Like Money (2016)
Watch your step
I throw niggas
From off of the plane I'm in
Oh my God
It's rainin men
Said the weatherman
To the anchorman
I send hella cash
To the bank I'm with
Whatchu do it for
If it ain't for this?
I watch my step so much
Startin to feel like my ankles wrists
Cold hearted
Startin to feel like I'm in Anchorage
When I think of this
And rude
Awakenings
Get taken in
Like fragrances
Bitch I smell like money
His ankles feel like wrists. Because he's watching his step. Watch. Wrist. Wristwatch. Forget wordplay, this is word acrobatics. I picked this whole section just for that line. The rest is pretty good too though.
Sometimes when Wayne puts his own spin on an existing phrase (in this case 'raining men'), the meaning he creates ends up becoming the default image in my head. He probably didn't even need the context of the plane. I would have just automatically assumed he meant dropping bodies. So many that the news is talking about it.
What rhymes with Anchorage? Ankles wrists, duh. Another solid line, just because it's probably impossible to think of Anchorage and not imagine the bone-chilling cold that's associated with it.
The part about rude awakenings makes me think of "wake up and smell the roses", but in this case Wayne treats even the unexpected rough times as a walk through the garden. And his garden grows money.