‘She got a big booty so I call her big booty’ Is one of the most clever lyrics written by 2 Chainz, and in all of rap. The line is masked by the obvious simplicity in naming the girl he wants ‘big booty’ but the line is an entendre on the word “call”, which can be used for a nominative or as a verb of the colloquial term booty call, the action in which 2 Chainz is undertaking. The lyric also contains two allusions, one to The Notorious B.I.Gs Everyday Struggle “They call him Two-Tecs, he tote two tecs”. The line also satirises Voltaire’s 1759 political novel Candide where the beautiful lady and love interest of the protagonist Ms Cunegonde’s name has a Persian translation akin to ‘Big ass’. Through these two allusions and within the context of the song, 2 Chainz reasons that sexual pleasure may be the ultimate source of happiness that the optimistic Pangloss never finds in Voltaire’s text. Similarly, he parodies Biggie’s ‘simplicity’ in the mellowed mood that the Ready to Die album conveys with an expression of joy as simple as birthday cake and women. Furthermore, the immediate categorising of her based on an appearance is a mocking of the philosophical practices of Aristotle. The booty no longer becomes a subjective desire but a physical manifestation which can be ‘called’. By calling her ‘big booty’, 2 Chainz longs for a world in which happiness comes simply and does not need questing for. Indeed it may be an immature philosophy but not one that should be wholly ignored.