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Breaker 1-9 is a CD radio term, which is a request to start transmission on a certain channel.

Basically, Nicki is asking her fans for airplay.

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Double entendre:

  1. He’s above the law. No puny rules can stop him.
  2. He’s taking illegal drugs and getting high.

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Nicki is indeed the highest in the rap food chain. Or least, that’s what she says.

The f word is always muted in this song, at least in this part, even in the explicit version, just for effect.

There’s also a reference to “Higher Than a Motherf*cker” by Johnny Richter.

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This is the best time of her life and she doesn’t want to lose it.

As mentioned in the description, the sample comes from “Something’s Got a Hold on Me” by Etta James, and is later used in Good Feeling. It’s no wonder why. It matches the feel-good tone of “Levels”.

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BVLGARI is an Italian luxury jeweler.

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Roman holiday—enjoyment or satisfaction derived from observing the suffering of others.

It’s a play off words, since Roman supposedly needs a break and his mother seems to enjoy seeing him suffer as a “regular person.”

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Coney Island is a peninsula off Southern Brooklyn, known for its amusement parks. Like before, it’s in Lana Del Rey’s home city. She also mentions Coney Island in “Carmen” a few tracks later.

Also, Coney Island is known to have some Sin City tendencies, so she is the queen of sin, the queen of prostitution and doing it right.

Her final apology–sorry ‘bout it–is a demonstration of her “L.A. crass” personality. At the end of the chorus, after she has rattled off about all the trouble and chaos she’s in and the trouble she may be causing her lover, she dismisses it with a simple, dismissive “sorry 'bout it.” At the end of the day, she doesn’t care about her actions. She can’t stop her behavior, and really doesn’t care to.

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In earlier life Lana found herself unsure of her purpose in live. She stated in an interview with the telegraph:

When I was very young, I was sort of floored by the fact that my mother and my father and everyone I knew was going to die one day, and myself too. I had a sort of a philosophical crisis. I couldn’t believe that we were mortal. For some reason that knowledge sort of overshadowed my experience. I was unhappy for some time. I got into a lot of trouble. I used to drink a lot. That was a hard time in my life.

Yet Lana’s misdirection in life has been rectified by this man, he has allowed her to escape her the uncertain nature of life.

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When performing the song, Lana usually sings “fuck” instead of “kiss”. So, have sex in the pouring rain with her.

Kissing in the rain has always been a classic, romantic fantasy. This carries on from Lana complaining that he isn’t spontaneous enough. Lana wants to literally have sex in the rain (she did say she was crazy).

Personally I can understand why he’s a bit apprehensive to do this.

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She has the hots for her man, to the point of her thinking he is her life.

“Light of my life, fire of my loins”, is a reference to the first line of “Lolita”. Ironically, it was Humbert, the old man, who said this line, not Lolita. It’s an interesting reversal.

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