Other people tried to have the same smooth style as Digable planets but noone could ever come close to duplicating it.

By calling their competition “martians”, Digable again emphasizes that they are on another level of funk and musical skill; they’re not even human.

Butterfly’s alarm clock (“ticky ticky”) wakes him up (“buzz”) at dawn – the time of day where the Sun rises in the east.

Aside from his awakening, he also sees the rising of the Sun as an awakening: as it rises, it is as if it is literally waking up the sky, acting like another alarm clock.

Fake gangsters/rappers claim to be “out here” (selling drugs or being involved with criminal activity) as a way to up their status in the streets, to fans, friends, or foes. Ab-Soul differentiates himself from the posers and the hypocrites. Soul really is out here on the streets of Los Angeles.

The way that the line is repeated seems to demonstrate how no one is listening; no one notices the struggle. The youth need attention that they aren’t receiving, whether it be from their families, the school system, or the government making efforts to help out the poor—all of these actions can alleviate social problems such as drug addiction or gang violence.