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There’s a decent chance this message is for Jhené Aiko.

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The outro has an existentialist slant, suggesting that since we all are stuck together we have an obligation to help each other.

At the very end, you hear pages being flicked through. This symbolizes the beginning of the album’s story in “The Library” and the end of the story here.

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Rick Rolling (or “Rickrolling”) is a classic internet prank in which someone misleadingly links the victim to the music video for 1987’s “Never Gonna Give You Up” by Rick Astley.

It’s a popular form of “trolling”, which is slang for purposely upsetting or harassing people online for fun. This also correlates to the fact that in the Because The Internet screenplay, The Boy is a notorious internet troll who hides behind his anonymous twitter account, @thegoldmolar:

The Boy checks his Twitter feed. Twitter name “You Are Unimportant – @thegoldmolar” You can see from his feed he just trolls all the time. Politicians, athletes, entertainers, etc.

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Donald is technically alluding to Naomi, a character from the album’s screenplay who The Boy meets at a vegan restaurant.

However, it’s likely that Naomi represents music artist Jhene Aiko. Jhene and Donald were awfully close during the creation of Because The Internet. In fact, Naomi is presumably played by Aiko in the visual for “III. Telegraph Ave.”:

Aiko also features on “I. Pink Toes” while Donald features on “Bed Peace” from her 2013 EP Sail Out.

In an interview with Complex, Jhene spoke about meeting Donald:

I was performing with Big Sean on Jimmy Kimmel and my publisher took me out to eat afterward. Childish Gambino came because he’s friends with one of my brother’s friends. That’s where we met, and we just talked and clicked.

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Lupe Fiasco has been collaborating with WOLFStudio since the release of ROTHKO(Yet For Computers).

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A famous Vine clip..

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Gambino is explaining his decision to break up with a girl he was in love with. He made her into a possible outcome of a decision. He chose music. Is that sad? Sure.

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An edible is a food that contains marijuana.(commonly on cookies, cupcakes, chocolate bars, and brownies)

Edibles tend to result in a much more intense and longer-lasting high than smoking. After consuming an edible, it generally takes 30-50 minutes for one to start feeling the effects.

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Vic Mensa is part of the Chicago’s talented Save Money crew, along with Kids These Days, Chance The Rapper, Kami de Chukwu, Tokyo Shawn, Dally Auston, Joey Purp, Caleb James, and Brian Fresco.

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Hippies are known for promoting world peace and being heavy weed smokers.
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A Top Dog is a person who uses their good looks, charm, and humour to dominate others.
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Also a word play for the West-coast crew Black Hippy consisting of rappers, SchoolBoy Q, Kendrick Lamar, Ab-Soul, and Jay Rock, under the record label Top Dawg Ent.(TDE)

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The whole song is about the Chicago rap game. So he’s stating that he can’t imagine his life without the Chicago rap game and that he used to be real sure about being a part of it but now he’s starting to doubt it because it may be trapping him as being only a Chicago rapper.

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