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“Carry Me Away” is 9th track of Cypress Hill’s 8th studio album, “Rise up”. The track is produced by Mike Shinoda (Known from Fort Minor, Linkin Park) who also sings the hook. The track is about wanting to change and to be remembered, instead of being stuck as a thug in the ghetto. The track has a very melancholic feel to it.

Mike Shinoda himself writes this about the song:

Some of you have started hearing the leak of my new track with Cypress Hill, “Carry Me Away.” Lots of good reviews, which is always nice.
I met the guys sometime around the year they joined us for the Projekt Revolution Tour. I’ve been a fan of Cypress since their first album (which I had to sneak out to buy because my mom wouldn’t let me listen to songs with titles like “How I Could Just Kill A Man,” “Pigs,” and “Hole In The Head.”
For our collaboration, I sang the chorus and produced the music (no samples–all original instruments, BTW), and they did the verses. Look for more updates about the song and their album here:"

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Produced by Rick Rubin, the man who helped the band during “Minutes To Midnight”, “A Thousand Suns” and “Living Things”. “Qwerty” is a B-side to Minutes to Midnight, containing Chester Benningtons powerful screaming and Mike Shinodas dark rhymes.
It was never released on Minutes to Midnight but appeared at two other releases:
-Linkin Park Underground 6.0
-Songs From the Underground

The name “QWERTY” comes from the first six keys appearing on the top left letter row of the keyboard. According to drummer Rob Bourdon, the song was first called Grecian.

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In the Christian faith, Jesus was said to have died to save the world from their sins, and because of his divine nature, came back from the dead after 3 days to ascend to heaven.

Thus, believers in Christ attribute him to being a living God instead of a human that has passed.

The Rastafari movement believes that God isn’t to be found in heaven, but rather among mankind. Haile Selassie I was revered as the returned messiah of the Bible, God incarnate, by the Rastafari movement. They praise him like Jah aka God.

Ras Tafari Makonnen Woldemikael (Haile Selassie)

So Peter Tosh is saying that God can basically be incarnated into anyone, and is probably living among us right now.

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Shouting out to Big Truck Boys, and probably to Trukfit too, Lil Wayne’s clothing line.

He’s also using a simile to explain how crazy he is, comparing himself to a Baboon.

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Beanie wants to talk to his dad about how after he left his sons and his daughter, the grew to take care and nurture their kids… Unlike Beanie’s dad who just left them. It seems he wants to confront him and make him feel the same pain he felt. This sounds more of a “son to father” than a “father to son”, which illustrates how bad of a father figure he actually was.

Beanie should also get credit for a brilliant quasi-homophone wordplay here:

Sit down let me tell you ‘bout your fatherless sons
How they grew to be men and father they sons

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In a reference to the way that people eat crawfish, he is telling her that he wants a blow job. It’s also a reference to the previous line of “Cajun”, as “Cajun” refers to Louisiana, where there are lots of crawfish.

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From U-God’s “Mr. Xcitement”, released in 2005. This is the only track on the album that contains a Wu-Tang related appearance, produced by one of the best-known Wu-Tang-affiliated producers, “4th Disciple.”

In this song U-God raps/sings about his father and their lack of relationship, as he was more of a hustler than a father.

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He’s using an ominous simile to describe his approach here. He’s getting closer and closer to the top, but no one can neither see, nor stop him. He’s lurking right behind you.

Knowing Kendrick, this also may have been to represent his skin color, and how his ethnicity is so looked down upon. And while everyone is ignoring him (like a shadow in the dark), he is about to come up and hit them when they’re not expecting it.

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Etymology: Middle English ‘bal’, from Old Norse ‘bollr’ and akin to Old High German ‘balla’; combined with the comming suffix ‘er’ denoting one that does or performs (a specified action)

  1. One who exhibits a consistent proficency at-, or exuberant love for the game of basketball.
  2. One whose person has been fully and successfully established in numerous social circles (esp. one who is extremely popular with both the male and female members of any given social group)
  3. One whose status in society has been earned by one’s possession of “game” (that is, proficiency at the game of life)

Lloyd is saying he made it.

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We (the oppressed) are tired of all the philosophies and religions that only serve to divide people.

“Schism” is a division or a split, usually between groups belonging to a religious denomination (subgroup).

“Ism” is basically ideologies ending with -ism, like racism, capitalism, Nazism, nationalism, communism. Isms are not very popular in the Rastafari movement, as they separate, divide and put people in different groups. Hence ism-schism.

Here’s a small list of these words.

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