Folgers is a popular coffee brand in the United States, which naturally contains caffeine among other stimulants. Now of course there is something really wrong with you if you don’t get a buzz or energy-boost from 500 pounds of coffee (approx. 60L).

No buzz alludes to you not having any buzz, or not being popular at all in other words.

Perhaps one of Marvin best lyrics ever, which makes it a shame it was dropped in the final version of Sad Tomorrows. A drug paraphernalia is an object which’s goal is to use, make or conceal drugs. This means that Marvin considers himself an object in the way the drugs control his life, and not an actual person.

Daddy-O compares his rapping styles to those of a “sharp-shooting wizard”. Grand Dragon is a part of the hierarchy of the Ku Klux Klan, to which’s members “sharp-shooting wizard” also alludes.

KRIT here ponders over what purpose writing this song and grieving actually has, none of it will bring the dead back, sadly.

Again, for annotations on these lyrics see the later-recorded version of this song called “Flying High (In the Friendly Sky)”.

For annotations on these lines, see the re-recorded version of “Sad Tomorrows”, which was on What’s Going On, titled “Flying High (In the Friendly Sky)”

Once again Marvin indicates that the drug he takes is used to be relieved from stress, and everything else that the world brings along with itself.

The Alfred Jon Connor mentions here is Alfred Pennyworth, Batman’s butler. In the 2008 movie The Dark Night Alfred told Batman that his enemy, The Joker, is unlike any other villain Batman has come across, and that The Joker just wants to watch the world burn. Meaning he wants to see chaos and destruction as a life goal, and not as an act of revenge or anything alike.
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The song “Luchini (This Is It)” is a ‘97 hit single by Chicago hip-hop duo Camp Lo from their often-classic-considered album Uptown Saturday Night. The song is all about having big money, which “luchini pouring from the sky” also suggests, since luchini is slang for money. Extremely fitting for a strip club!

Fun fact: the basis for the album cover for Camp Lo’s Uptown Saturday Night album was the I Want You album by Marvin Gaye, who also gets referenced later in this song.

Legendary singer Marvin Gaye came to a tragic death when his father shot him in the chest on April the 1st, in 1984. The first bullet, which was also the one killing Marvin, destroyed his vital organs, one day before his birthday. If that’s not even sad enough, the gun which killed Marvin was given by him to his father as a Christmas present.

Well-known pieces Marvin has sung include “Let’s Get It On”, “I Heard It Through the Grapevine”, “Sexual Healing” and What’s Going On.

A “biscuit” is also a slang term for a bullet.