Meaning of “Butterfly Doors” by Lil Pump

On the song “Butterfly Doors”, American rapper Lil Pump devotes the vast majority of the song’s lyrics to brag about the luxurious things he possesses. He mostly brags about the expensive cars that he owns. For example, in the verse, he talks about being the proud owner of multiple Lamborghinis that have butterfly doors. Here, he is basically trying to tell his listeners that these cars of his come with vertical doors.

It’s noteworthy that many an expensive, high-performance car comes with non-standard door designs. By virtue of the vertical nature in which the doors open, they end up looking like butterfly wings. Hence the name “butterfly door’.

Song features a racial slur

In the course of spitting boastful rhymes on this song, Pump makes a racial slur. The racist line in question appears to be mocking Asian people. He brags about being called “Yao Ming” because his eyes are “real low”. To add insult to injury, in the original version of the song, he had added the words “ching chong” to the line in which he talks about his eyes being “real low”.

The aforementioned lyrics took no time in prompting public backlash. Pump was so strongly condemned for those racist lyrics that he eventually took to Twitter to apologize. In addition to the apology, the song was later edited. At the end of the day, the highly offensive words were censored and some totally removed.

Here is an extract of the apology Pump posted on Twitter:

Quick Facts about “Butterfly Doors”

• Lil Pump handled the writing of this song whereas CBMIX handled its production. CBMIX, whose real name is Chris Barnett, is a noted American music producer/engineer. Aside Lil Pump, CBMIX has worked with the likes of Chance The Rapper, Chief Keef and Kanye West. For example, he co-produced the hit single “I Love It” by Kanye West and Lil Pump.
• “Butterfly Doors” was first teased by Pump on December 16, 2018 via Twitter. The song officially came out on January 4, 2019 as Pump’s first release for the year.
• This is a single from Pump’s 2019 album Harverd Dropout. It is noteworthy that Pump deliberately got the spelling of “Harvard” wrong in other to avoid any legal issues with Harvard University.

Does “Butterfly Doors” contain any samples?

No. This single is totally devoid of samples.