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References both former big time wrestler Jake “The Snake” Roberts and cult film favorite Escape From New York character Snake Plissken.

DOOM has previously referenced Jake the Snake in “Gazzillion Ear” :

In any event it’s fake like wrestling
Get em like Jake the Snake on mescalines

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#VIBERIAN EXPERIENCE
Name of JJ’s blog, and JJ DOOM have a song called Viberian Son / Viberian Sun.

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Reference to the Grandmaster Flash & the Furious Five classic Flash To The Beat (Live).

I wanna, I wanna, I wanna hear the beatbox

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TGWsUMUa0mA

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This is part of a conversation between director Spike Jonze (who directed the clip to Beck’s song Guess I’m Doing Fine) and Dave Eggers, who has founded and is an editor for McSweeney’s.

Beck had asked them what the ultimate record would sound like:

We brought them in, and we were going to have a commentary going through the whole album, almost like the two old men in The Muppets. It was hilarious. A heavy beat would kick in and they would go, ‘Shit! Listen to that beat! That drummer is so confident!’ But we couldn’t fit it all in. I asked them, ‘What would the ultimate record that ever could possibly be made sound like?’ That’s what they’re going on about. They’re saying it would be like an illuminated manuscript, handmade by monks. Or it would be a record that changed every time you listened to it. It was a great conversation
–Beck, The Guardian, 2006

McSweeney’s has released Beck’s Song Reader album of sheet music, and Beck has provided the introduction to Egger’s book Best American Nonrequired Reading 2005.

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Beck told the Guardian:

I remember coming into the studio one day and my producer was sitting there listening to it on his computer,“ he says. "I was like, ‘What the hell is that?’ He told me, ‘It’s the most relaxing thing in the world.’ He said he loves to listens to it in the bath. The voices are just so pleasant.

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[Beck…] inviting an English friend into the studio to read out the coastal station reports for Tiree, Stornoway and Lerwick (showers at all three). “It kind of matched the mood of the song,” he says.

The English friend is Rachel Shelley, by the way.

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Symbol for Beck’s feeling, spirit, or ability to make music. He is sad, but keeps on trucking.

Since the beat of this song is based on Requiem Pour Un Con, it is perhaps relevant that Gainsbourg also has a song called Black Trombone.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XJXkaM3ukoM

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Confirming that this is a true story. In reference to The Hardy Boys, a mystery series for children and teens that has remained popular since the release of its first volume in 1927.

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At 42 years old, DOOM still is a straight-A student. Yet he also manages to get his villainy ass kicked out of self-study online courses.

He used to get straight A’s
Nowadays get way paid is the pet phrase
– Viktor Vaughn, Modern Day Mugging

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A common thread in DOOM’s lyrics, he had an entire album dedicated to food, where ‘food’ was a metaphor for ‘lyrical substance’.

Order a rapper for lunch and spit out the chain
–DOOM, Sofa King

Notice ‘MM.. FOOD’ is an anagram of ‘MF DOOM’

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#Kinkajous
are rainforest animals that appear in the north of Latin America and they have large eyes. Sort of like a real life Pikachu from the jungle. (Thus, keeping it real, because Pikachu is a cartoon animal.)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e6jFkVcyKxI

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