Fob or Friend
"Close the light before you sleep."
FOB — literal translation of "turn off the light," common calque from Hindi/Urdu, French, and several other languages
Milton lacks this
Lights (and everything else really)
Your friend is making a red wine reduction sauce for a fancy dinner. She insists it's fine because "the alcohol cooks off completely" by the time it hits the plate. Halal or haram?
Halal — the majority view is that if the alcohol fully evaporates and no trace, taste, or intoxicating effect remains, the dish is permissible. The wine as an ingredient was still a questionable move, but the final dish itself isn't intoxicating.
The hook is about a girl who used to call him late at night on her cell phone, before fame changed things between them
"Hotline Bling"
Blockbuster / renting a physical movie
Netflix / streaming
"He's a few sandwiches short of a picnic."
Friend — a genuine, old-fashioned North American/British idiom meaning someone isn't very bright, just weird enough to sound like a mistranslation
Milton has an unnecessary amount of this
Roundabouts
You're stranded in the wilderness, no food for three days, and the only thing around is a wild pig.
Halal — under the principle of necessity (darurah), a normally forbidden food becomes permissible when survival is genuinely at stake, but only up to the amount needed to stay alive, not to fully satisfy hunger.
He reflects on how far he's come, name-dropping his rise from working at a restaurant/mall to headlining arenas
"Started From the Bottom"
MSN Messenger
iMessage / WhatsApp / Instagram DMs
"Just do the needful and send it over."
FOB — a South Asian English business-speak phrase meaning "do what's required," rarely used elsewhere
Milton is basically 90% farmland and 10% this
More Farmland
You buy meat from a butcher who's told you before "yeah bro it's halal" about things that turned out very much not halal. Today he swears up and down this chicken is halal. Halal or haram for you to eat?
Haram (for you specifically) — the general rule is you can trust a seller's word on halal status, BUT once someone has a known track record of lying about it, that presumption of honesty breaks down, and you're obligated to verify rather than assume.
A late-night, emotional track where he's calling an ex after drinking, admitting he still has feelings
"Marvin's Room"
Waiting for photos to get developed at Shoppers Drug Mart, then flipping through a physical photo album
Camera roll / cloud storage / Instagram
"He passed out from college last year."
FOB — in Indian English, "passed out" means graduated, not fainted
Milton is _____ from everything, no matter where you are
20 mins (will also accept 25)
A guy makes his entire fortune running a liquor store, then donates it all to build a beautiful new mosque. Is praying in that mosque haram because of where the money came from?
Halal (praying there is fine) — the sin of earning haram money stays on the person who earned it; it doesn't transfer to the building or contaminate the prayers of everyone who worships there. The mosque itself, once built, is just a mosque.
He addresses rivals and critics directly, with a chorus about people trying to test his position at the top
"Headlines"
Burning a CD or making a mix tape for your crush
Sending a spotify playlist
"Can you prepone the meeting to Monday instead?"
FOB — "prepone" (opposite of postpone) is a real, widely-used word in Indian English but doesn't exist in standard North American English
Milton is known for this!
The place where Heba lives
You're invited to a Christian friend's house for dinner. They serve you meat, but you have no idea how the animal was slaughtered, and there's no way to ask without it being awkward. Halal or haram to eat it?
Halal — the Qur'an explicitly permits eating the food of "People of the Book" (Christians and Jews) as a general rule, and you're not obligated to interrogate the slaughter method absent a specific reason to suspect something else was mixed in (like pork or alcohol in the dish itself).
A moody, introspective deep cut from his earlier mixtape era, reflecting on trust issues with people close to him
"Trust Issues"
Memorizing everyone's home phone number because that's how you'd reach them
Just texting, since nobody memorizes numbers anymore