For show and tell day screamin' "Fuck students" Tyler, The Creator – Skut
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Burn in the oven in this century
And the gas tried to choke, but it couldn't choke me Matisyahu – Jerusalem
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This references the atrocities inflicted on the Jews people during the Holocaust (which occurred “this century” – “about sixty” years ago)
Matisyahu essentially defies the attempted Nazi destruction of the Jewish people (notable in popular memory for the use of gas chambers and incendiary ovens in death camps) both by living and by thriving spiritually
Not the country but the dwelling of his majesty Matisyahu – Jerusalem
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That's little boy nigga with the trumpets Odd Future (Ft. Domo Genesis & Tyler, The Creator) – Sam (Is Dead)
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The only Polish pop star of any renown is Doda…
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Earl misses Samoa - he said it helped him in an interview. Here he is saying that all off his bad habits from his youth are now gone thanks to Samoa.
Earl could also be looking to the future, deciding now that he’s back from Samoa and OF is blowing up, it’s time to be an adult and really put his best effort forth to make money in the rap game. Not that he wasn’t before, but he was only 15/16 and didn’t know what having some cash feels like (you have to assume Tyler caked off some racks for Sweat).
Each part of this line has two opposite meanings.
First: Earl sacrificed having a normal childhood when he started rapping, then he was “after (physical) paradise”, he was seeking sensory pleasures and material success. Here paradise also refers literally to the “paradise” he actually did achieve by giving up his youth.
Second: He threw off the carefree pleasures of youth after having an awakening in Samoa, an opposite (spiritual) paradise. In this meaning, paradise also has two meanings, meaning literally after Samoa and the true paradise he’s now “after”.
Confusing but this may be the deepest, if not the first, multilayered quadruple entendre the world has ever seen.
Also, this could be a play on the biblical Fall from Paradise. If you look at it from that point of view, Earl is saying that unlike Adam and Eve, he left paradise on his own without God kicking him out. A more likely explanation however, is that Earl is referring to the other biblical Fall from Paradise, which makes more sense when you think about some of his other lyrics and OF in general.
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We'll all fade to grey soon, on the TV station Odd Future (Ft. Frank Ocean) – White
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One day Frank and his friends in Odd Future will die, and their antics will be those of just another music group of the past.
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A theme reprised in Analog 2. Maybe he’s in Fangorn Forest…
This likely means he is high.
Frank is also a Radiohead fan. It has something to do with Radiohead’s famous song Fake Plastic Trees. “trees talking like people” could refer to the people being fake in franks eyes, thus he sees them as the trees in the Radiohead song.
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Earl’s moved on from driving without a license to drunk driving, continuing his trend of unsafe vehicular practices.
Earl is also likely referencing a line from Tyler off “Seven:”
This line could also tie into the line, offering another example of how hot his lyrics are. “Scolding hot as dunking nuts inside a folders cup, or Nevada driving drunk inside a stolen truck.” Of course because Nevada is hot because it’s basically a desert and driving drunk inside a stolen truck is “HOT” meaning it can bring unwanted attention to authorities.
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