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(Fuck everything, man) That's what my conscience said
Then it bunny-hopped off my shoulder, now my conscience dead
Now the only guidance that I had is splattered on cement
Actions speak louder than words, let me try this shit
Dead Tyler, The Creator – Yonkers

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These lines are from the outro of an earlier Tyler release entitled “Cult Shit” with the exception of the word “dead.”

A “bunny-hop” is a BMX trick where you hop on your bike. An unsuccessful bunny hop would end in you falling on the ground.

Tyler’s Conscience, (represented by several different personalities, such as Dr. TC, and Tron Cat), just committed suicide. His conscience was his only guidance so when it kills itself, Tyler is inclined to follow along. The action of suicide is a stronger influence on him than anything his conscience has told him verbally.

Being the first single from this album, this may mark the end of Tyler’s Bastard phase as we head into the Goblin phase.

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the silence after he said “Actions speak louder than words” could be him doing an action in the studio

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Some say I touch hearts like Kano Cannibal Ox (Ft. Alaska (Atoms Family) & Cryptic One) – Atom

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Kano is a character in the video game series Mortal Kombat. His signature “fatality” move is a favorite among gamers. After defeating a foe, he literally rips their heart from their chest. Vast “touches hearts” in the metaphoric sense

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Alaska splashes explosive flows
To expose Pinnochio's growing nose Cannibal Ox (Ft. Alaska (Atoms Family) & Cryptic One) – Atom

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In the world of fake rappers that Alaska describes, he’s the truth bearer, exposing lying rappers

In the book/film Pinocchio, the main character is a wooden marionette who comes to life and whose nose grows when he lies

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We're all from the same mold: spores and bacteria Cannibal Ox (Ft. Alaska (Atoms Family) & Cryptic One) – Atom

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Mold pun: All people are from the same mold, as in a mold that you might cast any object in, but also in the mushroom/back of your refrigerator sense

All life shares common ancestry. While this was probably a simplistic single-celled organism, it wasn’t anything alive today. Molds are actually quite complex fungi, while even bacteria are probably much more “advanced” than the last universal common ancestor.

All humans share a much more recent common ancestor, estimated to have lived 2000-4000 years ago.

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I'm on my grind feeble, Tyler, The Creator – Bastard

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To be “on the grind” is to be working hard. In skateboarding, to grind is to slide on a rail or edge, and feeble is a type of skateboard grind.

Feeble also means weak or lacking strength, which isn’t a novel concept to Tyler.

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Atom Cannibal Ox (Ft. Alaska (Atoms Family) & Cryptic One) – Atom

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An Atom’s Family posse cut. Atom’s Family is/was a loose collective of many underground hip-hop artists that never released an official album. Alaska is a part of the group Hangar 18.

The beat was produced by El-P

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Spinning three six O wave, C4 blew the door
Number eight, Summer face tank top with a knot
Number nine said run the place
Took my girl stereo, CD, plus the tape
Brooke star, don't wet that, fucked her face lets stuff the place
Jet back to Santa Cruz, Californ-i-a Cannibal Ox – Iron Galaxy

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Vordul often references the teachings of the 5% Nation in his lyrics. This section contains many numbers which may seem to not make sense, so it’s reasonable to assume they could be references to Supreme Mathematics/Supreme Alphabet

360 is a reference to complete knowledge/understanding. Here it also could be a hairstyle

C-4 is an explosive. In the Supreme Alphabet, “C” represents comprehension/understanding. In Supreme Mathematics, “4” represents culture and freedom

“8” represents building/destroying (metaphorically; adding knowledge/increasing negativity). It could also just be an apartment number here

“9” represents “born” – to be complete, to understand, to be indoctrinated in 5% wisdom

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now THIS is a good tate. this is the kinda shit i like to see. gj

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This describes a real life home invasion…

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“But actually, if you listen to [Cannibal Ox’s] The Cold Vein, there’s this song [“Iron Galaxy”] where he says “C4 blew the door, number eight/summer face, tank top, with a knot, number nine said run the place/took my girl stereo, CD, plus the tapes/Brooke star, don’t wet that/fucked her face, let’s stuff the place/jet back to Santa Cruz, Californ-i-a”. That’s a reference to when she was living on 139th and Edgecombe, where I was staying with her. At one point, somebody broke into her apartment and stole all of her CDs and tapes.” -Billy Woods http://www.passionweiss.com/2014/02/07/question-in-the-form-of-an-answer-an-interview-with-billy-woods/

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NY 5-0 might shoot black head
Nigga sorry I sold space suit to crack head Cannibal Ox – Iron Galaxy

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Vordul thinks New York cops (“five-oh”) are a little trigger-happy when it comes to black people

But it wont work with Vordul, cause he’s so smart he even achieved the great feat of talking a crack head to buy a space suit of his hand - when the usual is the crack head looking for unnusual things (such as space suits?), so they can rob it, sell it, do crack again…

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Milk&_crackers

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When vordul says he sold a space suit to crack head the space suit is a metaphor for the crack he just sold him which will presumably get him so high it can be likened to being in space

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From the first line until this one he’s saying that he’s sorry he sold crack to someone and who now has gone and shot a young girl playing double dutch now the cops might shoot another black man. Two deaths upon this drug dealers head.
Spacesuit, refers to how a crack head feels on crack, like he’s floating in space. He sells crack aka a “spacesuit” to the crackhead who will need to go to “space”.
This verse talks about the state of the ghetto and how it’s a messed up cycle keeping the black man down.

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When he says sorry i sold space suit to crack head he is apologizing for selling crack to crack heads demonstrating that his failings are due to his surroundings and not his own choices

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The space suit isn’t actually a space suit, it’s crack. You wear a space suit to go to space, and the crack head smokes crack to go inside his head.

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Ox Out The Cage Cannibal Ox (Ft. El-P) – Ox Out The Cage

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Can Ox talking shit in a “thinking outside the cage” way

The beat was produced by El-P (who also adds some quick verses)

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This track is full of paradoxical wordplay expressing the necessity and inevitably of emergent shift in consciousness within an individual and into a subculture. This expansion of awareness is simultaneous with a dissolving sense of self. This gives way to the sense of reversed causality and versions of this experience being reflected back through others. Sensibly, a bit of cynicism is added to test the authenticity of the experience. That humility is a necessary element of self transcendence. Sharply aware of the great suffering of others, these verses just flow because they need to. Just as a Zen koan would have emerged in its purest form, it is simply consciousness realizing itself.

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Cipher unknown Cannibal Ox (Ft. El-P) – Ox Out The Cage

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In the Supreme Alphabet of The Nation of The Gods and The Earths, “Cipher” is represented by the letter “O” and means completion, coming full circle, etc. “Unknown”, represented by the letter X, concerns self-knowledge (Also, it’s why Malcolm has the X after his name)

Put that together, and “cipher unknown” is OX, which spells ox.

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