The injury has left him impotent, relating back to the theme of masculine insecurities and how the characters cover them up. The main character of the book, Jake Barnes, is a veteran of WWI, and goes through the novel drinking and avoiding the subject of the war to dull the emotional pain that stems from the injury he suffered during the war. This is also alluded to, as Jay-Z says his 'Nets could go 0-82 and I look at you like this shit gravy,' and Kanye's line 'Fuck that girl she don't wanna dance,' feigning disinterest in Jay's heavy investment into the Nets, and what girls think of them to appear powerful. This allusion would explain the most braggartly lines in the song, including Jay's self-comparison to 'Jackson, Tyson, Jordan,' the mention of partying with 'gold bottles, scold models,' and Kanye's claim that 'doctors say I'm the illest.' Another recurring motif in the novel is the character's intentional aloofness, their transparent front of general apathy, which they put up to protect themselves from revealing their true feelings. The characters in the novel all struggle with deep-seeded insecurities concerning their masculinity and social superiority over others, and spend most of their time getting drunk and displaying narcissistic, arrogant behavior to try and impress the most prominent female character in the book, Brett. The parallel I immediately drew is with Ernest Hemingway's famous novel, The Sun Also Rises, the first half of which takes place in 1924 post-war Paris. For all the criticism 'Ye and Jay have received, I believed they have crafted a song with a message matching it's rhythm and cadence. This song deserves so much more attention, and by that I mean for the underlying meaning of the song, not for the beat or the artists involved. (Zone, zone, zone, zone, zone, zone, zone, zone) (No one knows what it means, but it's provocative) 'Cause I was him, I would have married Kate and Ashley Prince William's ain't do it right if you ask me (Ball so hard) act like you'll ever be around motherfuckas like this againĮxcuse my French but I'm in France (I'm just sayin') (Ball so hard) your whip so cold (whip so cold) this old thing (Ball so hard) what she order? (What she order?) Fish fillet (Ball so hard) that shit cray, (that shit cray) ain't it Jay? I said look you need to crawl 'fore you ballĪnd show me why you deserve to have it all She said 'Ye can we get married at the mall? (Ball so hard) bitch behave, just might let you meet 'YeĬhi town's D. Gold bottles, scold models, spillin' Ace on my sick J's Take your pick, Jackson, Tyson, Jordan, Game 6īall so hard, got a broke clock, Rollies that don't tick tockĪudemars that's losing time, hidden behind all these big rocksīall so hard, I'm shocked too, I'm supposed to be locked up tooīall so hard, let's get faded, Le Meurice for like six days

The Nets could go oh for eighty-two and I look at you like this shit gravy Y'all don't know that don't shit phase me What's fifty grand to a muh'fucka like me So I ball so hard muh'fuckas wanna fine me 'We're going to skate to one song and one song only'

Go fish nigga