About “The McDonald’s Man”

“McDonald’s Man” is Kanye’s tribute to the global fast food chain McDonald’s. The poem is featured in the Boys Don’t Cry magazine released alongside the Frank Ocean album Blond.

Kanye uses the metaphor of individual food items to explore themes of conspiracy, distrust and paranoia—typical of a Kanye West song.

The poem was originally written in/before 2013. In a 2013 interview with The Guardian, Iggy Azalea said:

…I was at his house last week and he was playing me his ‘scriptures’, as he calls his spoken-word interludes, and there was one about McDonald’s: ‘Those fries/ Those fries/ I have them in my eyes/ That smooth apple pie…’ I love it. What is the line between art and ignorance?

Watch Joey BADA$$ perform the rap:

https://youtu.be/tt-62vLCaGY