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Twist it, turn it, pull it, bop it B.o.B – Back It Up For Bobby
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Bop it is a game in which you pull, twist, bop and more. He’s comparing that with the action a woman takes when dancing.

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Peel off in a dullies, Ab-Soul (Ft. Black Hippy) – Black Lip Bastard (Remix)
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‘Peel off in a dually’ means a dually pickup truck which usually has 4 rear tires.

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you coming up short like an Asian bill Black Hippy – On Some Other Shit
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Asian currencies have very little value (inflation); there isn’t any Asian currency that is worth even near the dollar.

Japanese Yen per U.S. dollar

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a .50 out the back of the Benz Wagon Ab-Soul (Ft. Black Hippy) – Black Lip Bastard (Remix)
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Referring to a .50 caliber gun, the highest common caliber of firearms.

.50 Cal bullet on very left

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I wish you all a beautiful death — Ab-Soul (Ft. Ash Riser & Punch) – Beautiful Death
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Beautiful death is the name of the song. Throughout, he’s described the tragedies of this world and how messed up it really is. He wishes that none of those listening to this song die as a result of these tragedies.

This line relates back to the whole “don’t be afraid to die” and also the other themes in this album (pineal gland, ego, death, etc.) where he speaks about the enlightened state that you can reach where you can see we are all in this together, some say we are all the same “life” or energy/force, and we are all essentially “one.”
Seeing death just as a part of life that we all go through in the end and accepting it, letting go of your ego and hoping that you can die peacefully knowing you have done your part to help others in life and are content with everything. Dying peacefully of old age once we have lived our lives and the new generation can continue where we left off, instead of people dying early and needlessly from pathetic violence.

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And as we proceed to follow these dreams, I ain't losin' no sleep Ab-Soul (Ft. Kendrick Lamar) – ILLuminate
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Ab is following his dreams and he isn’t losing any sleep.

An alternative way to read this is as:

I ain’t losin' / NO SLEEP!

As in, He won’t lose to the competition because Soul doesn’t sleep. He is in the studio working all night. “No, No" is the confirmation that he will not lose. “On them NoDoz" because Soul doesn’t sleep and is constantly working, he uses NoDoz to keep him awake.

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When Soulo says that he will “follow these dreams,” he could also mean that he isn’t losing any sleep because he is following his actual dreams (which he needs sleep to do.) If you look at it this way it’s the exact opposite of the “always awake” interpretation. But then again, Soul already mentioned in Pineal Gland that he doesn’t really need sleep to “dream,” if you want to think about it that way. Or I could just be overdoing it. You can never be sure with him.

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I coexist in places you would never know existed
(What, what?) Soulo here Ab-Soul (Ft. Alori Joh) – Bohemian Grove
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An idea that he has also discussed in “Top Dawg Under Dawg”:

Most of all I need to exist in the fourth dimension

This is actually a very specific line, referencing to either a different reality than one we experiencing from a day to day basis. He is either talking about astral travel or a spiritual plane (residing at a different “frequency”) than our own.

Soul retreats back to the name of the track, Bohemian Grove, in order to make sense of this line. He explains how he can coexist in A place, such as the Bohemian Grove, which many citizens of the U.S is unaware of due to it’s secrecy and seclusion to only the most elite and powerful men of the world. Coming from the slums of Carson, California, Soul expresses his ability to coexist in various locations.

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Maybe an allude to the 6 Parallel Universes

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slums ?? Carson ??

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Timbuktu Ab-Soul (Ft. Kendrick Lamar) – ILLuminate
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An ancient city in Mali,Africa

Also a reference to his previous HiiiPower line. Timbuktu held all the great knowledge in the world that every region came to learn from. Then Europeans sailed over to destroy this knowledge, so Ab is keeping it going.

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They trying to make us ghost with pills and coke: such a deadly blow The Black Opera – Villains
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They are trying to suppress us by death through drugs. Both popping pills and doing cocaine can kill you, and thus make you a ghost.

Also, they could just be trying to restrict our thinking abilities and make us ghosts in the sense of losing consciousness. This would be deadly in the sense that it would have a massive effect.

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more homes than Sherlock family to roll through Ab-Soul (Ft. Alori Joh) – Bohemian Grove
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Soul plays off the word “homes”, Latin slang for friend.
“More homes” is a follow up to “vanity,” they bought more homes out of vanity. But Soul has more buddies than Sherlock has family which would be a bunch of “Holmes.”

In the whole collection of Sherlock Holmes novels, the only family mentioned is his brother Mycroft, making this claim not very powerful.

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Soul is saying that he has too many friends that even Sherlock Holmes (homes) couldn’t investigate all of them. You can also see it as now that he is on and making money, homes can he has so many houses

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this is in reference to the Sherlock Holmes “Scandal in Bohemia” story where Holmes is deduces that Count Von Kramm, an agent for a wealthy client, is really Wilhelm Gottsreich Sigismond von Ormstein, Grand Duke of Cassel-Felstein and the hereditary King of Bohemia.

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