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This is the eighth track from Imagine, John Lennon’s second solo album after the Beatles broke up. A scathing result of the Lennon/McCartney feud, this song is one of pop music’s first diss tracks. Lennon actually wrote it in response to the Paul McCartney track “Too Many People.”
According to the 1981 Playboy interview this is what Lennon said about the song in 1980, just before his untimely death:
You know, I wasn’t really feeling that vicious at the time. But I was using my resentment toward Paul to create a song, let’s put it that way. He saw that it pointedly refers to him, and people kept hounding him about it. But, you know, there were a few digs on his album before mine. He’s so obscure other people didn’t notice them, but I heard them. I thought, Well, I’m not obscure, I just get right down to the nitty-gritty. So he’d done it his way and I did it mine. But as to the line you quoted, yeah, I think Paul died creatively, in a way.
The inside cover of Imagine also featured a picture of Lennon holding the ears of a pig, which ridicules the cover photo of McCartney’s May 1971 album, Ram.
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Seventh song of Fishscale, in which Ghostface meets a woman. Samples ‘Maybe’ by the Three Degrees.
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DOOM is still one to prank…
A surrealist description of how DOOM wrote a rhyme is mandatory for each album:
- Vaudeville Villain: he writ this skit in Sanskrit
- Madvillainy: wrote this lightly off a two or three Heinies
- Madvillainy: This one he wrote in cold blood with a tooth pick
- Born Like This: wrote this lyrics from in the bed with a chick
Could also mean he wrote this one as a “fuck you.” Writing a song and then releasing it sort of makes it permanent, just like writing something in cement.
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Vazoplex is viagra for women. Tastes like sperm, supposedly.
It was the super AKA super sperm DANGERDOOM – Korn Dogz
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The Lennon-McCartney dispute started after the Beatles manager Brian Epstein died in 1967, and Paul McCartney wanted his impending brother-in-law to become the new manager while all other Beatles wanted Rolling Stones manager Allen Klein.
It was McCartney’s father-in-law, Lee Eastman, who he had wanted to manage the Beatles. Lee did, in fact, go on to be McCartney’s business manager… although his brother-in-law John served as McCartney’s lawyer during the Beatles' break-up.
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Missing some meaning on the line, this one doesn’t have much to do with it
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The lines (in my opinion) asking, “How do you sleep?” are really asking, “How do you live with yourself knowing you’re such a liar and an asshole etc.?”, but it’s clever to say “at night” in the next line, because nighttime is when we admit to ourselves our faults and shortcomings while during the day we are able to ignore them and get on with it. John is asking if Paul is aware he’s such a dick or if he doesn’t care.