Every Pop Culture Reference on "Yeezus"

Lyric: "Black Tims all on your couch again"

What's the most disrespectful thing you can do inside a person's home? According to Dave Chappelle's interpretation of the late, flamboyant singer Rick James, it's rubbing your dirty-ass shoes all over that comfy piece of interior decoration on which people watch TV, casually recline, and sometimes sleep. Lesson learned: Don't invite Kanye West over to your house unless you're ready to cover all of the furniture.

Lyric: "And I know she like chocolate men/She got more niggas off than Cochran"

"If [the glove] doesn't fit, you must acquit." With those few words, defense attorney to the stars Johnnie Cochran both cemented his pop culture legacy and helped get O.J. Simpson cleared of his 1995 murder charges.

Lyric: "Baby girl tryin' to get a nut, and her girl tryin' give it up/Chopped them both down/Don't judge 'em, Joe Brown"

Don't pass any judgment on those two ladies with whom Kanye so charitably had sexy times. Save that for the veteran host of the syndicated court reality program Judge Joe Brown. Just let Kanye be great (in bed).

Lyric: "Took her to the Bleau, she tried to sip the fountain/That when David Grutman kicked her out, but I got her back in and put my dick in her mouth"

No stranger to Miami's vibrant nightlife scene, Kanye namedrops the the head of the Miami Marketing Group and overseer of the popular spot Bleau Bar, part of the Fontainebleau resort.

Lyric: "I keep it 300, like the Romans/300 bitches, where's the Trojans?"

Considering the themes evoked by the name Yeezus, the idea of betrayal by women and/or his entourage, also exemplified by the legend of the Trojan Horse, might be weighing on Kanye West's mind. Additionally, his life is lived in such a grand public scale that it could also be a nod to the epic CGI-clusterfuck that is director Zack Snyder's 300.

Lyric: "What do you say to a masked man?/This inglourious bastard that's rappin'/We might have to burn this whole suit down/Like the theater that Hitler was trapped in"

The Yeezus screed against corporate America finds Kanye threatening to burn the system down like Brad Pitt and co. did to Hitler in Tarantino's history-revising war film.

Lyric: "They see a black man with a white woman/At the top floor they gon come to kill King Kong"

In his Yeezus state of mind, Kanye's noticed the media gunning for him more than usual since he shacked up and then procreated with Kim Kardashian, coinciding with more stacks in his bank account and an ever-rising star in Hollywood. Thankfully Yeezus isn't a metaphorical plummet from the Empire State.

Lyric: They say I'm possessed/It's an omen"

This one can loosely be interpreted as a reference to the classic 1976 horror film The Omen, in which the second coming of Satan is a little human boy. The connection? Lucifer is known to possess souls in movies, so...yeah. There aren't any traditional demonic possessions in The Omen, save for a woman hanging herself in the name of Satan. Oh, well—apples and oranges, folks.

Lyric: "I'm bout to wild the fuck out/I'm going Bobby Boucher"

Much like how Adam Sandler's waterboy-turned-linebacker channels his rage-outs on the football field, 'Ye too is channeling his rage against the machine into this politically charged first offering from Yeezus.

Lyric: "So I can smash his recorder/See they'll confuse us with some bullshit/Like the New World Order"

Seems like Kanye's not a fan of everyone's Illuminati theories. Jay-Z owes him a pat on the back.

Lyric: "The only rapper who could compare to Michael"

In his recent (and, yes, amazing) interview with the New York Times, Mr. West compared himself to both Michael Jordan and Steve Jobs—bold statements, yes, but what else would you expect from a guy who made a song called "I Am A God"?

Lyric: "Nobody had swag, man, we the Rat Pack"

When it comes to being swagged out, very few people, celebrities or otherwise, can compare to the cooler-than-everyone movement embodied in the mid-1960s by Frank Sinatra, Dean Martin, Sammy Davis, Jr., Peter Lawford, and Joey Bishop.

Lyric: "Mi casa su casa/That's our Cosa Nostra"

What's a rap song without a mafia reference? Cosa Nostra, Sicilian for "our thing," is just another name for the mob. Kanye's pronunciation, it must be noted, isn't textbook.

Lyric: "Pussy had me floatin'/Feel like Deepak Chopra"

Ever the romantic, Kanye basically says his lust makes him feel transcendental, like the teachings of New Age/holistic health practicioner Deepak Chopra.

Lyric: "Pussy had me dead/Might call 2Pac over"

Sex so good that it kills you and allows you to hang out with the late, great Makaveli himself? Well, there are certainly worse ways to go out.

Lyric: "Yeezy's all on you sofa/These the red Octobers"

This could be a simple sneaker shout out; however, considering he calls himself a god, it could point to him attaining and asserting his power over pop culture in general, much like the events of the October Uprising of Russia in 1917.

Lyric: "Black girl sippin' white wine, put my fist in her like a Civil Rights sign"

This is the kind of album where fisting a woman is likened to the Civil Rights Movement. Just putting this out there, but this kind of talk didn't work out well for Lil Wayne...

Lyric: "Your titties, let 'em out, free at last/Thank God almighty, they free at last"

Sex talk and Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.'s "I Have a Dream" speech have been linked since Jamie Foxx in Booty Call. Chalk this up as two pop culture references in one blow. (Or three, if you count that Dr. King was quoting from a spiritual when he used it in his momentous oration.)

Lyric: "Time to take it too far now/Uh, Michael Douglas out the car now"

Full disclosure: We're not sure what the hell Kanye's talking about here. Michael Douglas, who recently starred in HBO's Behind the Candelabra as Liberace, has surely stepped in and out of automobiles in his lifetime, but beyond that? Well, being that Yeezus is fairly angry album, this could be about Douglas' Falling Down, in which he plays a violent racist. Or maybe 'Ye's a big Gordon Gekko fan and doesn't care about literal associations. If so, we can relate.

Lyric: "Uh, I sleep with a nightlight/Uh, I move like a TRON bike"

Anyone who's seen either TRON (1982) or its 2010 sequel, TRON: Legacy, knows that, aside from the bright neon lights (hence, Kanye's "nightlight" reference, perhaps?), Disney's supercharged action series is replete with fast and futuristic motorcycles.

Lyric: "I gotta bring it back to the Nola/Fuck them other niggas 'cause I'm down with my niggas"

After shouting out New Orleans, Kanye quotes the hook from C-Murder's "Down 4 My Niggaz" from his 2000 album Trapped in Crime.

Lyric: "Trying to get a baby, now you call me crazy/I don't give a damn if you used to talk to Jay-Z"/He ain't with you, he with Beyoncé, you need to stop actin' lazy"

Kanye isn't interested in another celebrity's status. To be elevated to his starting lineup of friends and groupies, you've got to offer more than name-dropping.

Lyric: "Star Wars fur, yeah, I'm rockin' Chew...bacca"

In essence, Kanye is so ahead of his time that he's rocking that future shit, i.e. Chewbacca's coat.

Lyric: King L: "Rock star, bitch, call me Elvis"

One of the album's two guest rappers, Chicago underground fixture King L keeps his references simple on what's easily the most club-ready track on Yeezus. Perhaps the chance to rhyme "rapper" with "Frank Zappa" seemed too random?

Lyric: "This the greatest shit in the club/Since 'In Da Club'"

Not only does Kanye nod to the greatness of 50 Cent's "In Da Club," but in true 'Ye fashion, he twists that to insert himself as the GOAT.

Lyric: "It's so packed I might ride around/With no bodyguard back like Prince in the club"

The second Chappelle's Show reference on the album, this comes from the famous Prince skit, where Charlie Murphy describes playing basketball with the Purple One. In the skit, one of Prince's bodyguards hoists up the singer (played by Dave Chappelle) and carries him around on his back.

Lyric: "Leavin' pretty girls, sad reputation/Start a Fight Club, Brad reputation"

On "Bound 2," Kanye likens himself to Brad Pitt, comparing the groupies thirsting for him to a fight club.

Lyric: "Snapback and the sparkling mink/I mean, damn, what would Jeromey Romey Romey Rome think?" and "Jerome's in the house, watch your mouth"

Kanye's clearly a Martin stan, particularly for the sitcom's ridiculous pimp character, whom Yeezy also referenced on the 2011 track "Illest Motherfucker Alive."