Here's another hit, Barry Bonds

It's taken me this long, a good ten days of repeated listening, to finally come to this conclusion: the song "Barry Bonds" on Kanye West's new album has little or nothing to do with Barry Bonds. You know how it is - the lyrics kind of fly by and you're getting your groove on and all, and hey, it's called "Barry Bonds" so you figure it's probably about Barry Bonds and you'll figure it out eventually just not now.

It hit me last night. It was during the Lil Wayne part, which is dope (the track is fat on the whole), and I was like, wait a minute, holms is just free- associating. There's not a single word of this that's about Barry Bonds.

Then I went back. I found only one brief passage that may (may) be referencing His Barry-ness. Kanye says:

I did it, that asshole done did it,
Talked it then he lived it,
Spit it then he shit it
I don't need writ-eers, I might bounce ideas,
But only I can come up with some shit like this

From what I can gather, Kanye is drawing some loose comparisons here between Bonds and himself - two self-serving, temperamental dicks who talk a lot of smack but then deliver. Later on he says, "my head so big you can't sit behind me," which may also be referencing Mr. Bonds, because as we all know Barry has a big head. Other than that, this song is not about Bonds in any way other than to bring him in on the punch-line of the chorus - "here's another hit, Barry Bonds."

It's good that we had this talk. Large out.