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Could you do the same what Tijon has done as a superstar? Could you be strong enough to face the challenges he has faced, and come out victorious like Tijon? Could you love anyone after that? Would you really want to stray from your peaceful 9-to-5 working life to fame, so you could encounter these situations? After all of this, would you be able to follow Tijon’s footsteps?

These lines are basically asking the listeners or haters, could you walk a mile in my shoes?

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A pun on the phrase “ghostwriting”. Since Casper is an animated ghost character, ghostwriting could be taken to a more literal extent.

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Charles Darwin was the originator of the theory of evolution via natural selection. FV’s rhyming skills are getting better, or evolving, and so hypothetically one could think Charles Darwin would be happy for that.

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Modest Mouse is an American indie rock band. It seems FV had a desire in being a rock artist, but he didn’t have enough skill to become a great guitarist.

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Rapper Big Pun, by his real name Christopher Rios, died on the 7th of February 2000, when he suffered a heart attack and respiratory failure.

But Mr. Rios did not die for nothing. He was a major influence in the Hip Hop industry in the late 90’s with hits like Still Not A Player and It’s So Hard. Big Pun also released the classic album Capital Punishment

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A reference to a classic line by the late MC Big Punisher

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Tijon posted this song on his website

Tijon – Thank You Anyway

“Months back I was walking to a meeting in Manhattan and I had some time to kill so I grabbed something to eat. On my way out I ran into a man who’d run into hard times and wound up homeless, something we walk past everyday. So I gave him a few dollars and talked to him for a few minutes but what stuck with me were his words and they became this song. It isn’t a big production or an album cut, just something that was written and recorded that day and I feel like putting out now. These type stories are to be retold not sold”

-Tijon

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The first verse is about fantasies of becoming rich and famous, and all the great advantages coming with them. Initially at the end of the verse Tijon talks about forgetting where he came from. Many famous hip hop artists have been flamed of having forgotten their “roots”. Fame and wealth brings a lot of new things into a persons life, and might change the person fully.

The first verse also portrays the “boy learning” the good and bad sides of being a widely known celebrity.

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“Go with the Flow” was released as the second single off of QotSA’s third album Songs for the Deaf.

The song is about a woman going from relationship to relationship, ditching when things get serious and leaving behind broken hearts. It was nominated for “Best Hard Rock Performance” at the 2004 Grammys.

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Tijon’s remix of M83’s Midnight City

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