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This song is over the beat to “Up” by Wiz Khalifa, which sampled Tevin Campbell’s “Could It Be.” This instrumental was chosen because it is one of Tyler’s favorite Wiz Khalifa songs.

From the mixtape Radical

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He feels something wrong with himself, and uses the popular idiom of “to have a screw loose” to express this.

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The Cat Daddy has similar movements to The Dougie, therefore it is possible to cat daddy while you dDougie.

Also, the quintessential Teach Me How to Dougie came out in the summer of 2009 while this song came shortly after, in 2010.

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Tyler wants to make every lesbian hate men because of his sexist lyrics/ bad treatment of women. This can also play off the ridiculous belief that girls become lesbians out of embitterment toward men after being raped.

Tyler also dated a girl, named Milan, who apparently turned lesbian after dating him. He’s hinted at this earlier in his music.

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Ghostface has enough money that he can afford whatever he wants to eat, even exotic animal meats.

This line actually inspired a question in Ghostface’s Mass Appeal Interview, where he basically states that there was no reasoning behind this line.

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When he says open the windows he wants fresh air because of all the smoke around him, and because he has asthma. Fresh air can help his lungs a little.

In an older interview Tyler explains this section:

Tyler, The Creator: I don’t smoke at the fuck all, so I wanted to make something that will give me that same HIGH feeling that Domo and Hodgy feel when they’re blazed. But this is my favorite wiz song.

Casen Kreation: On the drug issue, we know you don’t fuck with them. Personal choice or you could give a fuckless?

Tyler, The Creator: I just don’t need them, I have a natural high. But last time I fucked with weed I ended up crying try to call the ambulance.

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This refers to the coke mentioned in the last line, one the downsides of the drug being a loss of cognitive ability; it cannot, in accordance with scientific reality, be referring to marijuana, for marijuana usage has absolutely no causal link to brain cell loss.

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Water is known to relieve stress, and the beat of this song is a nice calming splashing of water.

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Ye' is saying that the reason kids write rhymes and want to be rappers is because, in the hood, it’s seen as the only way out of the ghetto. If they don’t ever make it out of the hood, there’s a good chance they’ll get trapped into the gang life.

When they see other Rags to Riches stories like Jay-Z and 50 Cent, it gives them hope, even though there’s a big chance that it probably won’t ever come to fruition.

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It was special to have A car (at all) in the Chi at this time, the fact that he had one with a radio and spinners definitely got him a lot of action with the girls. This unfortunately led to him knocking some girl up.

Him driving 80 miles per hour on the freeway is just more evidence of how irresponsible Mali was at this age, but money plus youth is what this is a result of.

“Back-back then-then” can also be seen as an allusion to the 2005 hit single, “Back Then,” from Houston rapper, Mike Jones – a close contributor of Paul Wall’s, who also appears on “Drive Slow.”

Back-back then-then can also allude to the chopped and screwed style of the song, as seen at the end of the song.

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