Helter skelter in a summer swelter

from Don McLean – American Pie Lyrics on Rap Genius

Helter Skelter was a very popular Beatles Song, which Charles Manson claimed was the inspiration for his gang’s string of murders in the 1960s.

The ‘long hot summer’ caused by the Watts Race Riots, and other major riots across the country, is the second reference

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