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Sage is feeling unloved. Even though he should be getting groupies, he’s either too busy (leaving for the next venue already) or has unnerved any female audience member by revealing his inner demons so outwardly.

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Begins the second part of this verse, where Sage wants his mother’s approval. Johnny Appleseed traveled around the Midwest in the late 18th and early 19th Centuries planting apple seeds so that orchards would grow and the Earth would flourish.

Sage still feels that he owes it to his mother to make her proud, and feels he has done that by traveling all over creation planting his “seeds” of angry hip hop. Since he ain’t giving her grandchildren (see next line), he can at least give her this.

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A lifetime of hurrying everywhere as a child, never knowing where he’s going, that later resembled his real life of touring.

The second line is also a nod to his change from being hyper-religious as a child, to being an atheist (from the water, to the land, ie : evolution)

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Another metaphor signifying the same as the first. His mother doesn’t help him understand the world (doesn’t give him the pieces to complete the puzzle), so Sage instead, going back to the stones, crushes them and distributes the dust, meaning he rejected his mother’s (lack of) teaching and educated himself. Autodidact!

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Tricky, tricky! “Bon” refers to indie band Bon Iver. It’s missing a “son” like Allen Iverson’s last name. Note: This line does not refer to Bone Thugs-n-Harmony member Anthony Henderson.

Trivia: Bon Iver is derived from “bon hiver,” which amounts to “good winter” in French. In winter, we’re often missing the “sun” because it’s overcast and snowing. So Bon’s last name (Winter) would be, in effect, “missing the sun.”

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Cock D is short for cock diesel, meaning super-muscular, and able to handle themselves in a fight for example.

Also, the way Rob inflects his line, he’s asking if Aes said Mary Mallon had too much posse or not. (Michael Bluth: This is not a volvo…).

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Even technophiles can get intestinal inflammation.

But what about Typhoid Nano?

Mary Mallon, their namesake, is better known as Typhoid Mary, so that’s clearly a reference there.

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Ominous…

The vocals scratched in here are from “Human Beat Box” by the Fat Boys.

Brrr! Stick ‘em! Ha ha ha stick 'em!

A famous line referenced in many songs.

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They left the club late smelling like Old Gold cigarettes.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8ZRzBGpLsB8

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Aes and Rob roll deep with a lot of people, hence the “squad deep” line at the end. This is a direct reference to Public Enemy and their song “Too Much Posse”

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