Little battery wordplay working against some criminal imagery, describing how my life is so far-removed from the gritty and hell-like life of the incarceration system.

Getting charged for battery is a crime involving physical contact. Saying I can’t endure a cell means I couldn’t spend one night in prison.

Charge – Battery and Duracell are all images involving batteries. At the end of the line I say, forget about my “bars” meaning my rap lines, my cleverness is unimportant compared to the terrible environment prisons create.

Verse 3 is about the time I spent tutoring at juvenile hall, and the things I learned from the kids there.

Verse 2 was originally written for a final in a college course I took called “Hip Hop & Incarceration” where we learned the connection between rap music and the American jail system.

This is a play on the double-meaning of bars as rap lines and as jail-bars.
The “arrest” in cardiac arrest, which is a heart condition, also plays into the double meaning of one’s heart being arrested.

This verse is dedicated to my good friend Ali Mirza who passed away last year and was an awesome hip-hop producer and friend

This idea came from philosopher Daniel Dennett, who made the claim that religious people don’t actually BELIEVE that god exists, they just believe that believing is right and moral.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Yzbt6QY6NuY

This song discusses religion from the perspective of the first man who discovered religion

Oseh Shalom is the prayer that begins the song and is sampled throughout, it serves as a foundation of the song’s concept that spirituality comes from human interaction and harmony, not a God.

Triple meaning:

Levy = jewish tribe
Levi = brand of jeans
true religion = brand of jeans

It wasn’t in my genes/jeans to feel the power of organized religion