Ashnikko - Sass Pancakes (Lyrical Breakdown)

In an interview with UK FULLSTOP, Ash told that the EP's title, which is also Sass Pancakes, represents the "many layers of the female brain". This is also represented in the album cover, which is a drawing of a woman, whose head is sliced up like a pancake and the layers hover in the air.
And this is the double/triple she's using as a theme for this EP. Pancakes, like the pieces of cooked batter we eat, vs. giving us a "piece of her mind" = telling us something that pisses her off, makes her angry, vs. 'batter' as in beat someone up, because you're pissed at them.
Link to the interview: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JerYscoFBJ8 

-Hey, what's that? Well, those are apple rings, this is pancake batter and that's sausage
-Hey, that might be pretty good!
-Pretty good? Wait 'til you try it! There's a batch already

The intro is a sample from an old 1950s Aunt Jemina pancake commercial.
Here's a link to it:  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=beOxrAt2L4w 
First of all, choosing a 1950s housewife cooking breakfast for her family as an intro to a song about a woman speaking up what's on her mind - genius. Whether it was Ash's idea or Raf Riley's (the producer she made this EP with as a collaboration).
In the 1950s the Second World War had just ended and big portions of various nations died in the war. So, to rebuild the economy, governments of said countries encouraged people to make more babies and created new ideals as to what would be a proper life to aspire for as a woman or as a man. Women should return home from doing their husband's jobs during the war and be submissive to their husbands, doing all the cleaning, cooking and childcare. Men should provide for the family. And everyone needs to make more babies to make up for the losses in the war, which in turn affected women's fashion becoming more about the hourglass shape, which is often thought to be the most feminine and therefore the most attractive to men, which will make them want to have sex with their wives more, which results in more babies.
If that 1950s house wife would be allowed to state her own opinion on things, what would it be? I bet most of them would have rejected the "perfect housewife" role, given the chance.

Don't compare me to my parents, my choices are my own
Cooked 'em up in my cauldron, that's where all my money's blown
And the potion made me do it, god damn, what was in it?
Your rapper boyfriend's tongue and a carton of Popeye's spinach

Ash's parents are Christian and were pretty strict on Ash and her brothers growing up. They weren't, for example, allowed to listen to certain music styles, such as hiphop, which is what Ash is doing now (her aunt introduced her to the genre behind her parents' backs when she was 11). Another thing was, they were not allowed to talk about sex, at all, let alone being queer, and Ash is a genderfluid pansexual and I'd say about 50% of her songs are about sex or have some kind of a reference to sex. So yeah, she is DEFINITELY not like her parents. She has since reconciled with them, but Sass Pancakes is her first EP, first publication since getting a record deal, so I don't think she had such a good relationship with her parents back then.
Ash has mentioned several times that she's a witch. From what I gather, she's into new age religion, which is where you sort of form your own world view around things you believe in and don't believe in. Typical topics of discussion would be astrology, crystals, chakras, affirmations, manifestations, etc. And that explains the cauldron and the potion in these bars. Also, she's literally a biological mix of her parents, the potion in the cauldron, her parents being the ingredients.
When she moved to London alone at 18 to pursue her music career, she fell into the party girl lifestyle. So the potion is not only a reference to her being a witch, or her being a biological mix of her parents, but a triple for drugs. "God damn, what was in it?" like you take a pill in a party or a club without knowing what's in it and how it affects you.
Being a witch, buying crystals and whatnot, and buying drugs, is where "all my money's blown".
A second version of what the ingredients were, apart from her parents, is that she's 1) a rapper, who's not concerned with being ladylike, she's gonna be just as rude and dirty in her language as the male rappers are 2) but she's stronger, metaphorically. In case someone has been living under a rock or is VERY young and therefore doesn't know, Popeye is a fictional cartoon character, who would get inhuman physical strength from eating a can of spinach when needed. Mostly when her girlfriend Olive Oyl from being abductuted by Bluto, a sailor who also likes Olive. Ash is Popeye, so she's saving the girl from someone the girl doesn't want. And she's the equivalent of a male rapper, but stronger and the one who wins and gets the girl in the end, instead of the guy who is just the "rapper boyfriend" without the Popeye's spinach.

Repped the borough in the Baltics, I tried to be the nicest
Leave me stuck in between with an identity crisis

Ash is originally from North Carolina, from where she moved to Estonia when she was 13 (because of her father's studies) and a year later to Latvia. (And then to London, UK, when she was 18.) She's saying the tried to be nice to the people in her new school, new home town, new country, but that didn't work out. She never fit in Latvia and was bullied. That's why she decided to move to London alone when she was 18. Being from the USA, then living in the Baltics (a common denomination for Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania) and then in the UK, has left her in the middle of an identity crisis. Is she American, Baltic or English? Where does she belong?
(I'm just plain boring Finnish-born Finnish person with Finnish roots, but I have a friend who was born in Russia but moved to Finland when he was 5 and he has spoken about his cultural identity crisis - is he Russian or Finnish? Furthermore, Russia consists of federations, many of which have their own languages and genetical heritages, so that makes things even more complicated. Our discussion ended with him feeling the "Russian Finn" as a fitting identity, though.)

And I might just bite dust, dick around and try to write up
A dollar for a date just to compliment my type but
You throw out that slut word, that's so old news
You boys are easier to use than my Velcro shoes

"Biting dust" means to die or to end in failure. "Dick around" means to fool around or to treat someone unfairly.
I think by "my type" she means drug addicts, or more specifically party girls. She could fail, fool around and sell herself cheap - she's expressing a literal selling of self, a paid escort service or prostitution, but it doesn't have to be that literal. It can be - I bet many drug addicts, especially women, end up selling their bodies when their addiction has gone so far they have nothing more to sell anymore - but it doesn't have to be. She can also mean selling yourself cheap, but figuratively - a young, small town girl in a big city, in a foreign country, an aspiring musician - she'd be an easy target for manipulation. Assuming someone would notice she has musical talent and decided to capitalize on that, they could write a contract full of loopholes and being young and presumably naïve, she wouldn't know what she was signing.
But Ash is not going to be one of those girls/women. Yes, she might use her sex appeal if she needs to, but she's in control. She's not a slut, doing whatever a man wants her to do and letting him use her - she's the one with the power, making him do what she wants and using him.

So who's coming to chill with me and caterpillar later?
Mix something with the shisha to attract you gaters

Drug references. The caterpillar in Alice in Wonderland smokes a pipe and it has been suspected to be marijuana. "Shisha" is a hookah, or a waterpipe.
Gaters, as in gatekeepers. Men who said to the teenage Ash, and I quote, with her words from her Homicide freestyle: "This rapping's for men, but girl your body's a ten". I hear all these white male rappers say how they're called Eminem clones and black female rappers how the hiphop scene is very much a boys' club - just imagine being a young white femme person, queer on top of all that, trying to make it in the industry...

You tater tots on my block, don't throw like I thought
Talking 'bout your third eye like these rap robots

Tater tots are an American deep fried potato dish. They were originally made from the small leftover slices that you get when you make french fries and other potato dishes with bigger chunks of potato in them. "Tot" is a slang word of Scottish origin and means a small child.
Ash is calling the guys on her block small, insignificant leftovers.
"Throw" as in "throw punches" - the big "scary" men aren't as scary and tough as she thought they'd be.
They talk about highbrow, elitist things such as a "third eye", where as Ash sees herself as someone talking about real life and what is actually going on. I find this bar to be quite funny considering that the third eye is one of the chakras, and so is the sacred or sacral chakra, which Ash mentions in her song Possession of a Weapon, which was released six years after this. I think she used to look down on people writing about such topics, but has since changed her mind.

And sorry, I'm done, I'm cocking my gun
Showing off and throwing shade 'cause its fun
So listen my son, hold your tits when you run
Try to keep up and don't cry when it's done

"Hold your tits when you run" = You're fat. And running away from Ash, holding the gun.

I'm sweet, maple syrup on the beat
Force feed you sass pancakes every day of the week

Pancake x12

Ash often plays with the juxtaposition of people assuming she's sweet and innocent, based on her feminine gender expression, being a fan of Japanese media, naturally owning a singing voice that can sound autotuned when she wants it to, and somewhat shy personality, but how in reality she's more complex than that and much tougher than what meets the eye.
Maple syrup is sweet and sticky - Ash sticks to the beat, as a rapper should. That's why it's called rap, it's "rhythm and poetry". Sticking to the beat's rhythm is a key factor. Ash is sweet, as in a nice person, but "sweet" is also a slang expression to something that's cool/neat/hip/whatever. Ash sounds cool on the beat.
We already established that the sass pancakes are the layers of Ash's mind, "a piece of her mind". And sure, pancakes are sweet, maple syrup is sweet... but if you're forced to eat them every day of the week, it's too much.
Sure, the play on words isn't perfect - I know she means her music and personality, the opinions she's expressing, are too much for these particular men she's talking about in the song. How she is sweet but also giving them the sass. But she ends up saying that's what we all get, that we'll all get sick of her if we feed on her message every day. She's killing all of us with the kindness/sweetness.

Overall, I still think it's a pretty good song. Her lyrics are great, her rapping on this song is fine as well.