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All of Del’s raps are figuratively built in 3D, they’re extremely well made and there’s a whole word to explore behind them.

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This line is suggesting that people who are famous or influential, such as celebrities, etc, “prey on human ignorance” through their words and actions. They do this by doing or bragging about things that are wrong or immoral (casual sex, drugs, having/using weapons, crime, etc.) and in doing so, are making these things seem cool or popular to the multitude of people who idolize them.

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Chubby Checker is the artist who ended up making “The Twist” a hit and thereby spawned the Twist dance. Del plays on either the song or dance with implying that he’ll out-rap anyone.

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Spectres or specters are apparitions, meaning that they’re things (both living and inanimate) people claim to see while there really isn’t anything to actually see, the best-known example of this is a ghost.

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In mathematics everything that is correct is just plain and simply correct. Everything can be proven right or wrong and there’s is nothing in between those two. Meaning that everything Del spits is factual.

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Crossover musician Prince was one of the biggest funk artists the music industry has had, but compared to other funk musicians like George Clinton, Bootsy Collins, James Brown and Sly Stone his stuff is barely funk, which Del also calls him out for.

Paisley Park is a record label founded by Prince which released some of his and his artists' music from 1985 to and including 1993, the label came into existence after all the success Prince gained from the movie, album and song all titled Purple Rain.

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The rhymes Del spits are the lyrical equivalent of the creation of something beautiful like a rainbow.

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When Qwel explained what the song was about he said that…

Its the ladder builder on the tower of Babel realizing what hes doing. It comes to him while hes drifting away from an argument over what day of the week it is. So he decides to climb to the top and leap.into a mass of peoplestanding in linefor his job. Basically us

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Qwel explained that this song is about “being bombarded with stress, to the point where your brain starts to burst. Like cats and dogs fighting in your head. Told through the analogy of ship (body), storm (mind) and captain (soul), trying to fight through a shipwrecking storm.”

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According to Qwel this song explores a concept in which the following happens:

The general Chicago cat riding the train, and its really rainy and shitty. And youre just all in the clouds, just grey. And then right before the lowest point sinks in, the sun starts to come out, bam. I used the train as the main notion because its like being on the same path, the path doesnt change, your view on the path changes. And it just creeps up on you out of the blue like Indian Summer.

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