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Lee is a common Asian last name. And Asians are stereotyped as being good at math. Could be a reference to Bruce Lee or Lee, Jackie Chan’s character in Rush Hour.

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Domo questions the life he is living. He loves it, but he cannot believe it is real. He asks and hopes that it continues in the future.

Don’t worry Domo, the future is looking odd. And it is looking bright for you and your Odd Future crew.

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Jansport is a common type of backpack, especially for school. By “go to school with this”, Tyler means he’s “teaching” the kids with his music

This could also be a reference to the backpacker subculture which got its name from graffiti artists who would carry their albums (reference in previous line) and their spray cans in a backpack. It is now used to describe underground, alternative rap

The “go to school with this”-type lines that end each verse could be interpreted as “just try going to school with this sort of burden”, since there is evil in the backpack, and the lines that follow are about general hardship

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The line is self explanatory except for “hoy.” This is Spanish for “today.” In the following line he uses “soy” which is Spanish for “i am.” Substituting in Spanish words fulfills his rhyme scheme and makes the lines a bit more confusing to compliment his “confused boy” theme.

He is also stating that he is bad for kids to listen to because of how vulgar and explicit he is in his songs.

He may be saying oy as in oy gevalt which is basically something a person says when they are stressed.

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Domo Genesis is the Ted Bundy of rap in this song. He kills the track and leaves know doubt that he will be around a longtime to kill many more.

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A reference to calling 911. “breaker breaker” is CB radio slang, followed by a channel number it means you want to interrupt someone on the channel because you have something important. Channels 19 and 9 are both reserved for emergency use.

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Nice metaphor here: Stuffing is weed, the oven is a pipe or a joint, and getting baked is, well, getting baked.

This could also be a reference to cooking with weed. B.o.B is making pot muffins (though pot brownies are much more conventional).

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This song is featured in the commercial for Electronic Arts' new game Crysis 2, which takes place in New York in 2023.

The hook is taken from Frank Sinatra’s 1979 song “New York, New York”

The song is an extended metaphor relating the wars around the world, and specifically the ones the United States is involved in, to the video game the songwas made for, Crysis 2.

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Lupe doesn’t rap about selling drugs because he sees it as being something that is a bad influence on his fans and he says it would be labeled as a “bad track” in his opinon.

I think he says “…and I ain’t tryna back back” because, 1) he is continuing the idea that he doesn’t want to backtrack, and says he doesn’t want to back (as in walk backwards) back (as in backwards in time or as the better person he is now). And 2) I think he just repeated “back” twice because he had to fill the bar, or measure, for that line.

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His mixtape, I’m Better Than You, was delayed pretty heavily. His first studio album, The Achievement, has also been delayed heavily by Battery Records, the label he is under.

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