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One of Black Moth Super Rainbow’s' most popular tracks, the Pittsburgh group incorporate many different genres, including Neo-Psychedelia, Funk & Pop. This song has a very striking Science-Fiction feel to it.

Mac Miller (also from Pittsburgh) sampled the track on his 2nd studio album Watching Movies With The Sound on the track Matches

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1NAtglA6KgY

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The title track of this album is also the last of the triumphant project.

Josh Homme returns to the piano to round off this album with a rather depressing but beautiful song about regrets in life. It grapples with the idea that people will do as they please, and you have no power to say otherwise.

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Flagrante is Latin for terms such as ‘Caught Red Handed’ or ‘Caught in the act’ of committing a crime.

Much of the song incorporates themes relating to religion, and not fearing choices based on your faith. This lines highlights Josh’s mindset of ignoring consequences and doing what you want.

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The hook is sampled from Nylo’s “Someone Like You”.

http://youtu.be/dRee4Q4gM9Y?t=15s

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Howard Stern is a notorious radio personality who dubbed himself “The King Of All Media”.
He presented probably the most controversial show in America at the time, as it featured everything from drugs, strippers and fights. The FCC fined him around $2.5 million before he moved to satellite. He often got women to do extreme things for money.

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Fear and limits are things we almost always put upon ourself.
Of course sometimes other people say you cannot do something, or make you scared, but frequently we as human beings think we cannot do something and then eradicate the thought of trying.

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Shots fired!

When Jeff Van Gundy became New York Knicks coach back in 1996, MJ was back in the NBA and ready to win 3 more NBA championships in a row. Van Gundy in a pre-game playoff interview claimed Jordan use to befriend not only his players, but others (like Charles Barkley) butter them up with dinners and compliments, and this would make them mentally weak, leaving MJ to finish them off in-game.

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Mac described this introduction as a voice in his head or a subconscious, which is why he starts the first verse (speaking from his own mind) with;

“But me I’m still trapped inside my head…”.

http://youtu.be/FfMJq_mvNxo?t=58s

We now know this voice to be an alter-ego of his, called Delusional Thomas. Much like how Madlib has Quasimoto as his high-pitched alias. Mac released an entire mixtape under this name on Halloween 2013.

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Carlsberg is one of the most popular brands of larger in the world. JME is playing off of this.

Additionally Karl Lagerfeld is a famous German fashion designer.
‘Carl / Lager / Field’ plays on the reference to style in the last line.

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Aristophanes was a Athenian playwright, a master of Old Comedy which often satirized famous individuals. One of Aristophanes' most famous plays today, The Clouds, portrays Socrates as a bumbling sophist and buffoon, making him the butt of not a few jokes. In Plato’s Apology Socrates actually claims that one of the main reasons the Athenians are sentencing him to death is that ridiculous play. Needless to say, Plato would have had a complicated relationship with the comedian.

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