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“Syd tha Kyd posted to Facebook today with a link to her Tumblr friscotsc.tumblr.com that had a musical track on it.

just ran across this shit. made this beat in high school. one of my favorites. recorded this the day i met hodgy…
-Syd

On this yet to be named track Hodgy, is rapping to/about a girl. Possibly having an argument? It appears Hodgy is going through a stressful time in the song. He talks about the surmounting weight that is being stack on him. So it’s possible that he is having an argument with a girl he loves meanwhile talking about the stress of becoming a rising musician? What do you guys think the song is about?"

-Odd Future Talk

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Tyler The Creator’s thoughts on Gram:

“Yeah, that song is fucking amazing. if someone asked me what one song could describe what Odd Future sounds like, it would be that song”

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“He’s talkin' about grass.”

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Maybach is a German luxury car company with very old, regal-looking cars. Jaguar is a British luxury car company, with a more modern style. Mike G is spurning old style hip hop, and touting the newer, upstart stuff which characterizes OFWGKTA.

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To take a line from his associate Drake, Weezy is Off That.

Also, “future” as in “Odd Future.” The preceding two lines are originally off Earl Sweatshirt’s “Earl”, and the following line mentions Bastard, Tyler the Creator’s debut album.

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Ace of Spades is an expensive champagne that comes in a gold bottle. Hov receives millions of dollars a year to promote the brand.

Unfortunately, some models that Jay was partying with spilled some champagne on his Jordans. He dangles the possibility of meeting Kanye in front of them to get them to show his shoes some respect.

Jay is likely referring to the Air Jordan XII “Flu Game” shoes – Michael Jordan wore them during the famous Game 5 of the 1997 NBA Finals, where Jordan battled illness to put up 38 points, 7 rebounds, 5 assists, 3 steals and 1 block, resulting in a win for the Chicago Bulls against the Utah Jazz.

This shows how far Kanye’s come since the days when he would brag about his friendship with Talib Kweli to get girls, and introduce himself to girls as being from Jay’s clique.

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As the final bonus track, Steak Sauce is the vitriol-filled conclusion to Tyler the Creator’s debut album, Goblin.

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This is pretty meta – since Tyler is rapping about those “stripping lesbian dykes that fight niggas,” he is one of those “niggas/that like to rap about those dykes that fight niggas.”

It’s likely Tyler based this line on a similar one from Lil Wayne’s “U Gon Love Me”:

And I don’t like strippers
I like dyke bitches
That don’t like strippers
That like bitches
Like to fight strippers

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Ted Kaczynski—aka The Unabomber—was a a serial killer, political radical, academic genius, and societal recluse who, over the course of twenty years, sent a series of mail bombs. The “blowing up” of the bombs led to three deaths and twenty three injuries. The fact that they were mail bombs is key to the “overnight” wordplay.

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“Free Earl” is a common Odd Future phrase. Member Earl Sweatshirt is MIA and the reasons for why are unclear (some fairly credible theories have since come to light).

If so, this might be the first “Free X” campaign in rap music history that has a chance of working

This and the following line were previously said by Tyler in the song Sandwitches.

Earl was sent to a boarding school in Samoa known as the “Coral Reef Academy” due to his harsh lyrics and smoking pot with the rest of OFWGKTA.

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