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Matt Barnes Crowns Himself "Hardest Lightskin N***a" Because Of Kanye West

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Olivia Shea

Published Mar 29, 2026

During a freestyle at the end of the song, Kanye West spits the following bar about driving so far with the sole purpose of beating somebody up: "I'm about to drive 90 miles like Matt Barnes just to whoop a n***a ass." The line references the then-insane public unfolding between basketball players Matt Barnes and Derek Fisher, which stemmed from infidelities with Gloria Govan. Barnes has been deemed a badass for driving nearly a hundred miles to square up with Fisher over Govan. As we celebrate Black History Month, people are joking about Barnes being the "hardest lightskin n***a" in history, which Barnes himself acknowledging the title. He responded to the praise in a social post.