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Los Angeles is known for and has many “Spaghetti Junctions”. These are locations where many freeways and interstates cross and weave to relay traffic to different cardinal directions.
(Judge Harry Pregerson Interchange of Interstate 105 and Interstate 110 in Los Angeles.)
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Yeah we trigger an emotional response causes you to react violently Blackalicious (Ft. Lateef the Truthspeaker) – Smithzonian Institute of Rhyme
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The music that Lateef and Blackalicious produce individually and together opens your mind to thoughts you’ve never conceptualized before causing you to become a revolutionary and react in a raucous way.
I think I know why the dog howls at the moon Johnny Clegg (Ft. Savuka) – Dela
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Using symbolic imagery to convey his point, Johnny is comparing a dog howling at the moon to him confessing and declaring his love for his lover.
Ngyanya
Dela
When I'm with you
Dela, sondela mama
Sondela, I burn for you Johnny Clegg (Ft. Savuka) – Dela
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Swimming blindly to throw myself upon your shore Johnny Clegg (Ft. Savuka) – Dela
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Whales use moans/calls to communicate to other whales. Sometimes whales also become both intentionally and accidentally beached (stuck on a sandy beach).
Johnny is saying he is enamored by his lover to the point that he is like a whale blind swimming towards a shore, willing to blindly follow his lover anywhere or do anything his lover says.
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African-Americans have higher levels of melanin in their skin, hair, and iris of their eyes than Caucasian-Americans.
Which is what makes African-Americans skin darker than Caucasian-Americans.
Frog seems to be propelling an idea similar to that of Wu-Tang Clan’s well-known Five Percenter philosophy that those with high levels of melanin are the more original, or proto-human example of the first men.
He could also simply mean that black people in general are inherently creative as a people.
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JB is just being outlandish as usual, coming up with crazy skills that Young Nastyman possesses.
GI Gurdjieff in the first chapter of his last book “Life is Real Only Then, When I Am”, specifically claims to have had the ability to kill a yak from 10 miles away with the power of his mind.