For many in the 'Baby Boomer' generation, the Beatles were not just a fantastically popular band, but a symbolic representation of what was best about the era of their youth. The Beatles stood for Love, and Freedom, and Peace; and they stood against the extremes of the Cold War; that is, for common sense as opposed to either extreme Communism or mindless consumerism and capitalism.
Ponder how we can holler then spit darker
Than Gotham at six bars in the genre Earl Sweatshirt – Home
Than Gotham at six bars in the genre Earl Sweatshirt – Home
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Play on the double meaning of “dark.” Earl’s subject matter can be pretty evil, or dark, at times. He compares it to the darkness of Batman’s Gotham City as the sun goes down.
Also, dark night…Dark Knight.
I guess Earl was getting pumped up about The Dark Knight Rises in Samoa.
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Earl’s father is Keorapetse Kgositsile, a famous South African Apartheid-era poet. From Earl’s birth until 2001 (when he was 7), Keorapetse would spend half the year in LA, the other half in South Africa. However, in 2001 he moved to South Africa full time – leaving Earl without a pops.
Earl’s modesty left, just like his dad.
Earl also discusses his loveless relation with his father on the song “Blade:”
Wealth is in the mind, not the pocket, if that's the case, then I been paid
A$AP Rocky (Ft. A$AP Illz, A$AP NAST & A$AP Twelvyy) – Trilla
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Obvious pun on Drake being a young person who is making money and being signed to/belonging to the label Young Money
This also references Drake dominating the music industry for the 2011 Fall/Winter season (when Take Care was released), as well as having season seats courtside for the Raptors.
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Released a year before this record, the Snoop Dogg song “Tha Shiznit” off his acclaimed debut Doggystyle quietly plays in the background – another classic record.
Hip hop the hippie the hippie
To the hip hip hop and you don't stop
Rock it out, baby bubba, to the boogie, the bang-bang
The boogie to the boogie that be
Now, what you hear is not a test... The Notorious B.I.G. – Intro
To the hip hip hop and you don't stop
Rock it out, baby bubba, to the boogie, the bang-bang
The boogie to the boogie that be
Now, what you hear is not a test... The Notorious B.I.G. – Intro
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This is the song that first put hip hop on the map, way back in 1979!
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“I Am the Walrus” was made up of three distinctly different songs–the first is the beginning of the song, which John was given the idea of by hearing a distant police siren. The second song was about John sitting in his garden at home (“sitting in an English garden…”). The third was a song which was invented after John learned that a teacher was having his students study Beatles songs for meaning. John created the song with nonsense lines such as “elementary penguins”, “sitting on a cornflake”, and “crabalocker”. John later said “Let (the students) work that one out.” “I Am the Walrus” is notorious for being one of the first rock songs to use an orchestra.
Lennon’s description of a ‘crying Walrus’ in the song comes from the poem The Walrus and The Carpenter by Lewis Carroll, which is from the sequel to Alice in Wonderland called Through the Looking-Glass (1871). In his 1980 Playboy interview, Lennon said: “It never dawned on me that Lewis Carroll was commenting on the capitalist and social system. I never went into that bit about what he really meant, like people are doing with the Beatles’ work. Later, I went back and looked at it and realized that the walrus was the bad guy in the story and the carpenter was the good guy. I thought, Oh, s–t, I picked the wrong guy. I should have said, ‘I am the carpenter.’ But that wouldn’t have been the same, would it?”
Lennon’s statement is an intentional misdirection. In Lewis’s poem, the Carpenter and the Walrus share the same moral position. That is, they are murderers that kill and eat the generation of ‘young oysters’ that they have fooled into walking with them. ‘The Carpenter’ would be widely recognized as a symbol of Jesus, or (more generally but esoterically) a representative of ‘Tektons’ or Masonic architects in general; but he is certainly no friend to the oysters, much less any critic of the capitalist system.
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Democrats are known for raising taxes.
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While Earl “spits gold,” other rappers are plastic – or in other words, fake.
“Plastic” stems from plastic surgery and other artificial beautification methods, as well as Barbie, who represents an unrealistic, fake standard.
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