Kanye West Calls Out Hoboken Women In New Song, 'Problematic'

HOBOKEN, NJ — Former Hoboken resident (and rapper) Kanye West recently engaged in a little wordplay about Hoboken women in a new song, leading to amused responses on social media.

West recently held listening parties for his new album "Vultures" — a collaboration with Ty Dolla $ign — in New York and Chicago.

In the song "Problematic," he says, "Every day in New Jersey, on my way to New York / I was late to every meeting in my Queens tunnel / But all the hoes in Hoboken know / If I seen you outside with the open-toes / You might get a trip to the Poconos."

Listeners reacted to the lyric on Twitter this week.

One user, "Jordan," posted on Wednesday:

"Hoboken's on the map now lol," wrote "DanThaMan," adding, "Griselda & Kanye both mentioned it."

"Which one of y'all got Kanye on his new album reminiscing about Hoboken," wrote "Jarrod."

Rolling Stone magazine interviewed the rapper early in his career, 20 years ago, noting that he lived in an apartment on the Hoboken waterfront, with a poster of himself on the wall.

"He’s got a luxury loft in Hoboken, New Jersey, with a spectacular view of the Hudson River and Manhattan," the reporter wrote in his 2004 story. "It’s sparsely decorated because he’s been traveling a lot, thanks to his freshman album, The College Dropout, which has already been bought by more than a million fans ... 'I put me on the wall because I was the only person that had me on the wall at that time,' West says later."

(West's eventual ex-wife, Kim Kardashian, was also known to frequent the mile-square city in 2011 when she was dating then-resident Kris Humphreys.)

An Instagram post from "What Hoboken Sounds Like" this week clarified that West was a tenant of the Tea Building, on 15th Street, while recording that first album.

Of the new lyric, the post says, "It definitely caught some people off guard."

Want to write a rap lyric in response, mentioning Hoboken? Well, kan ye? Submit it here, and if it's not too "problematic," we might post it next week.