Barnett refers to the “father of psychoanalysis,” Austrian neurologist Sigmund Freud. Pop-culture references to Freud tend to focus on his work regarding the subconscious. In particular, his concepts of dreams and subconscious thoughts as wish-fulfilment are fertile ground for those who wish to analyse and dissect their feelings and thoughts on any point.

This has lead to “Freudian” becoming a byword for neurotic or anxious self-examination. For Barnett, this is another way of conveying that she is concerned by her trains of thought and confusion with her position and fame.

Freud is also mentioned here because of his research into the Rat Man, a nickname given to one of Freud’s patients. The patient had nightmares about rats. According to Wikipedia: “His fear of rats, Freud showed through elaborate interpretations, was based on disguised anal erotic fantasies.” This more or less displays Freud’s mode of analysis, as he tended to see everything as a symbolic penis, except of course his trademark cigar.

This line may be an homage to the classic Dogg Pound track “Smooth”:

Wake your goat-mouth ass up

In Jamaican Patois, to be goat-mouthed is to be jinxed. In standard English, this line might be “You God-damned mother fucker.”

But a Mammy is not simply a mother. The mammy archetype is a familiar and powerful one in American culture—the black women who often took care of white children in the American South. Famous examples include Aunt Chloe in Uncle Tom’s Cabin and Hattie McDaniel’s character “Mammy” in Gone with the Wind.

“Goat-mouth mammy fucker” is also a modified version of the “monkey-mouth motherfuckers” called out in the first verse.

Bryson is making major checks at a young age—his numbers are up there with veterans of the game. He’s gone from idolizing Drake and Lil Wayne to identifying with them.