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Probably the most “accessible” song on the album, MC Ride feels that the stuff he has seen in the ghetto is so messed up that he has detached himself from it and sees it as a dream or video footage and not real.

MC Ride is also describing the amount of disturbing shit you can watch online: videos of decapitations, police brutality, etc. He’s become desensitized not just by the stuff he’s seen in real life but also by the “footage” he’s seen online.

In a 2012 Pitchfork interview, Zach explained the phrase from the title and how the hook came about:

The line “I’ve Seen Footage” was from a conversation I had with this street-person dude in Sacramento named Snake Eyes. A friend of ours recorded him on the porch in a conversation– he didn’t know he was being recorded. He was all fucked up on drugs and shit, just rattling off all this crazy information. He was talking about structures on the moon. I mean, I talk about those things, too. So we were talking about moon structures, and Snake Eyes says, “I’ve seen footage! I’ve seen footage of it!” And I was like, “That’s good!”

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