A .38 airweight gun was used by Bernie Goetz to shoot four African-Americans on a subway train in New York City, an incident that exposed many existing tensions in major cities during the 1980s. In this song, POS appears to reflect on the experience in light of what it is like to be African-American in the 2010s. SIMS takes the voice of Goetz or a similar character to voice the possible motivations for the shooting.