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What’s that name? WILLIE ISZ, not WILLIE EYES JJ DOOM (Ft. Khujo Goodie) – STILL KAPS
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Even I f'ed up when transcribing this song… Willie Isz is a dirty south rap duo consisting of Khujo Goodie and Jneiro Jarel (who is the JJ in this JJ DOOM collab).

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Or either do or die like farmer suicide, chew your pride JJ DOOM (Ft. Beth Gibbons) – GMO
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Cotton farmers in India were more or less forced to use GM cotton seeds, to catastrophic effect.

See:
#Ministry blames GMO cotton for Indian farmer suicides

It seems that the success of the Bt cotton lasted only 5 years. Since then, cotton yields have been gradually falling and pest attacks increasing.

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John Anderson
10 years

I could be wrong, but I always thought he was saying “like pharmacuicide, chew your pride”. Basically a play on words, killing yourself with prescription pills (people take pride in their medications). Just throwing it out there

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Could also be a reference to Lee Kyung Hae’s suicide

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Flounder genes in your tomatoes JJ DOOM (Ft. Beth Gibbons) – GMO
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The fish tomato was an experimental frankenfood that combined a tomato with some DNA of the winter flounder to try and make it frost-resistant.

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I need more information about this

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In the name of greed we get a seedless society JJ DOOM (Ft. Beth Gibbons) – GMO
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Like the GM allows us to eat seedless fruit, DOOM worries about the castration of men through hormones. Thus, men becoming unable to produce seed (sperm) to produce seeds (children).

Also, referencing the likes biotech company Monsanto that have aggressive patenting strategy, which means you can’t plant the seeds that they developed. Can you claim a patent on nature? Yes, you can.

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Question: will the frankenfoods kill us?
Or turn us into thangs off Thriller, or dang gorillas? JJ DOOM (Ft. Beth Gibbons) – GMO
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Are genetically modified Frankenfoods good for us? Will they devolve us into monsters? The thought gives MJ’s Thriller a whole new dimension.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jQ_ExkfcBao

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Thang Gorillaz also refers to “The Gorillaz”.

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Question: will the frankenfoods kill us?
Or turn us into thangs off Thriller, or dang gorillas?

he’s talking about the genetically modified food ,we still don’t really know the long time effects,will they kill us or turn us into zombies or
D.A.N.G. gorillas
http://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=Dang&page=2
D.A.N.G.
Dumb Ass N****r Gorilla. A term used to describe any ignorant individual, regardless of race, who fails to recognize their own ignorance.

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“Or dang gorillas” references the song Clint Eastwood by Gorillaz’s second album, Demon Days. Clint Eastwood actually featured a troupe of undead gorillas doing the Thriller dance.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UclCCFNG9q4

Note that DOOM was featured on Demon Days track November Has Come, and that Gorillaz vocalist Damon Albarn is featured on Keys to the Kuffs track Bite the Thong!

British artists, unite!

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bartels
10 years

what I got from “turn us into thangs off Thriller or dang Gorillaz” was DOOM asking if additives/GMOS in our food will turn us to mindless drones like the zombies in Thriller or the Clint Eastwood video

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“dang gorillas” alludes to the fact that GMO food may cause us to devolve back into monkeys…

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He been flippin' beats since Casio Bossa Nova JJ DOOM (Ft. Damon Albarn) – Bite the Thong
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These old Casio® sampling keyboards had some great preset beats.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NwFpQ2sMXTg

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Mid-verse, hot sip drinking
It's a optical illusion, not lip-syncing
Thinking
Who's to know? JJ DOOM (Ft. Damon Albarn) – Bite the Thong
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DOOM has been paying some guy to take on the role of MF DOOM in his shows, like he says:

When you come to a DOOM show, I’m letting all the cats know now, come to hear the show and come to hear the music. To see me? Y'all don’t even know who I am!

He makes a joke out of it here, as the rapping goes on while Vil sips his tea.

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rip 'em to shreds
Give 'em the bread while sippin' the red, bled JJ DOOM – Rhymin' Slang
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Possibly a bit far-fetched, but I think DOOM here likens rap beef to the gladiator game.

In reference to the body (bread) and blood (wine) of Jesus Christ, and panem et circensis of the Romans.

This line subtly references the U.K. slang term ‘bled’, loosely synonymous with the the word ‘mate’. This also ties in with the theme of slang in the track.

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10 years

Most likely, DOOM is explaining how he deals with the mindless rappers (the living dead) by tearing them to pieces and giving them their last rites (the bread and wine of the sacrament, but DOOM sips on the wine as the rappers bleed out)

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MCs is bought and sold
Their rhymes ain't worth the weight it cost to gold hold JJ DOOM – Rhymin' Slang
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The rappers you hear on the radio have sold their souls to corporate America.

I remember DOOM saying once he thinks these commercial cats do have real talent, flows and slick beats. But their superficiality messes it all up. It’s not worth the astronomical production costs.

Also check out this line from Winter Blues, same album:

Each and every day making cash with Satan
Can’t eat, can’t sleep, it’s exasperating

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I wrote this note around New Year's
Off a couple of shots and a few beers, but who cares? MF DOOM – Beef Rap
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DOOM cares, judging from his predilection for describing how or when the rhyme was written.

Song Year Lyric
“Doomsday” 2000 I wrote this one in B.C. D.C. O-section
“Beef Rapp” 2004 I wrote this note around New Year’s / Off a couple a shots and a few beers, but who cares?
“Lickupon” 2004 He wrote this one with a fever, sick in bed, with his dickhead inside a chickenhead
“Change the Beat” 2004 he writ this skit in Sanskrit
“Money Folder” 2004 wrote this rhyme lightly off a two or three Heinies
“Great Day” 2004 This one he wrote in cold blood with a tooth pick
“Mince Meat” 2006 wrote this one with his middle finger in wet cement
“Batty Boyz” 2008 wrote this lyric from in the bed with a chick
“Get ‘Er Done” 2008 Wrote this oath while pinching a loaf

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DOOM’s way of telling you that he was somewhere at a bar near Time’s Square when he wrote this, and because he says around New Year’s, it has nothing to do with when he wrote it.

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