Spotlight to savages, NASDAQ averages



Mos explains his reason for rapping the way he does: to spotlight the life of “savages” who the world only sees for a few minutes on the nightly news before the stock updates. Throughout this verse, he equates the people in Brooklyn (“the savages”) with the Wall Street bankers (they’re in the same city, they both spend all their time in tall buildings, they both commit crimes, etc), and states his desire to bring these peoples' real stories to life.
