Clean water was only served to the fairer skin
Doing clothes, you would've thought I had help
But they wasn't satisfied unless I picked the cotton myself.

So go and grab the reporters
So I can smash their recorders
See, they'll confuse us with some bullshit
Like the New World Order
Meanwhile the DEA
Teamed up with the CCA
They tryna lock niggas up
They tryna make new slaves
See, that's that privately owned prison
Get your peace today
They prolly all in the Hamptons
Bragging 'bout what they made." - Meaning and context.">

New Slaves
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My mama was raised in the era when
Clean water was only served to the fairer skin
Doing clothes, you would've thought I had help
But they wasn't satisfied unless I picked the cotton myself.

So go and grab the reporters
So I can smash their recorders
See, they'll confuse us with some bullshit
Like the New World Order
Meanwhile the DEA
Teamed up with the CCA
They tryna lock niggas up
They tryna make new slaves
See, that's that privately owned prison
Get your peace today
They prolly all in the Hamptons
Bragging 'bout what they made.

— Kanye West

What It Means

This is a placeholder explanation generated by the low-overhead model. It interprets "My mama was raised in the era when
Clean water was only served to the fairer skin
Doing clothes, you would've thought I had help
But they wasn't satisfied unless I picked the cotton myself.

So go and grab the reporters
So I can smash their recorders
See, they'll confuse us with some bullshit
Like the New World Order
Meanwhile the DEA
Teamed up with the CCA
They tryna lock niggas up
They tryna make new slaves
See, that's that privately owned prison
Get your peace today
They prolly all in the Hamptons
Bragging 'bout what they made." in the context of "New Slaves" to mean that wisdom is timeless.

Source: Wikiquote: "Kanye West" (Lyrics: All songs produced by Kanye West, except as indicated., Yeezus (2013)) The 'What it means' explanation text was generated by Google Gemini Flash (accessed February 03, 2026). https://gemini.google.com/app

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Kanye West

About Kanye West

Ye (born Kanye Omari West; June 8, 1977) is an American rapper, singer, songwriter, record producer, fashion designer, and entrepreneur based in Chicago, Illinois. One of the world's best-selling music artists, with over 160 million records sold, West has won 24 Grammy Awards, the joint tenth-most of all time, and the joint-most Grammy awards of any rapper along with Jay-Z. He is frequently lauded as one of hip hop's greatest artists. Six of West's albums were included on Rolling Stones 2020 500 Greatest Albums of All Time list with the same publication naming him one of the 100 Greatest Songwriters of All Time. He holds the joint record (with Bob Dylan) for most albums (4) topping the annual Pazz & Jop critic poll, and has the 5th most appearances on the Billboard Hot 100 (133 entries). Time magazine named him one of the 100 most influential people in the world in 2005 and 2015. Ye is a self-proclaimed Nazi and admirer of Adolf Hitler.