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I'm on a journey to the center of three Death Grips – Hacker

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To triangulate a position, you need three coordinates. MC Ride has triangulated your location, and is now headed there.

This could also refer to the earth being the third planet from the sun, or the third eye concept, or Third Worlds, the band’s label.

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12 months

This could also be a reference to the three layers of a kernel that computers use, the “journey to the center of three” could mean he is trying to get kernel level access

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1 year

Third Worlds didn’t exist at the time.

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Aryan Ghuman

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2 years

Triangulating a point takes two lines not 3 points, This probably has more to do with the idea of the first 3 numbers whatever that may be.

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4 years

most likely a nod to knowing the first three numbers to triangulate your position as well as the 3rd ring of hell from dantes inferno thats for the gluttonous hes going to indulge in taking your shit

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Michael

5 years

If the subject of this verse is sexual, then id like to thing it’s about how a 3 sometimes looks like bootycheek, and hes on his way to pound town.

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6 years

This line could also be referring to how Ride is working towards the essence of the three-man band. There must be a core concept that holds them together as a band (the concept of acceleration could be an example), and as the band progresses, they get closer to reaching that concept.

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6 years

It might be an Kabbalah analogy. In Kabbalah three of life the center sephirot is Thipheret and it means something like spiritual enlighnment. It also means beuty, like the beauty of our beings when our ego is dissolved. Its something a little bit controversial since Death Grips lyrics usually surround egoical themes, so this might also be refering to the Kabbalhistic three of death where the center, Thagirion, means something like the maintaning of evil forces and the complete opposite of Thipheret. Srry for bad english

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6 years

There are also three members of the band, though to say he’s journeying to the center might be going over the heads of Zach and Andy.

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7 years

Centre of the trinity? Like Kabbalah tree of life

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8 years

Hadit’s also referred to the “middle of a circle”.

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8 years

It is most certainly the thelemic god Hadit, “the flame that burns in every heart of man, and in the of every star.” The god of chaos.

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Low attention span, guess these Adderall worked Danny Brown – Grown Up

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Adderall is what you take to treat attention deficit disorder (hence the sarcasm)

But in Generation Rx he says:

“never had a problem with paying attention, popped an adderall and i wrote a verse in minutes.”

well, Danny which is it?

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1 year

I think he says “low attention span
Does these adderalls work?”

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Taco

3 years

They worked in the sense they made him money

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7 years

Saying he guesses the adderall worked is likely in reference to that he made it with the help of medication for add. Him saying low attention span may just be another way to say he had ADHD

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7 years

I think when he’s saying, guess these aderall worked he’s referring to today, since the song IS called grown up. Idk though just spitballing

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7 years

Nah he’s always said adderall helped him. As he says in the previous line, he was always distracted as a kid, he didn’t take adderall until he was in his teens. He naturally has a low attention span, but adderall helped him to the point of mass success (where he is today). He has admitted to clinical addiction so it’s clearly working for him. “Low attention span” as a kid “guess these Adderall worked” as he started taking, and now makes millions through the focus it comes with.

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8 years

Adderall makes you focus very hard on something. It gets him focused on things he should not be focused on. Instead of doing homework, he wrote lines. Dead on line if you’ve ever taken adderall

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9 years

This line has a double meaning: He’s sarcastically saying that the adderall didn’t help with his homework, but the adderall did make him spend all day writing the rhymes that made him famous, so they “worked”.

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Rachi

10 years

“Scribbled in my notebook and never did homework, Low attention span” His school life pre-adderall

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10 years

its sarcasm

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Jessica

11 years

Adderall treats ADHD, both inattentive and hyperactive-impulsive (formerly known as ADD and ADHD). When one takes medication for this, it makes one work so fast that he/she goes from task to task effortlessly. Danny had low attention span and moved from task to task quickly, indicating that the medication did its job.

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Hotter than a Hot Pocket out the devil microwave Danny Brown – Grown Up

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RG EDITORS NOTE: Easily the most disputed lyric in the song. We are of the opinion that the “devil’s microwave” would be considerably hotter than a regular one. Also, what the fuck is a “double microwave”?!?! Come on now.

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dave

7 years

It called tonal perception… the artist makes words sound like each other creating more meanings depending on how you hear it. before reading the lyrics to me….i heard out the devils microwave but after reading others comments it could be double microwave. none the less danny brown fucking murders this track.

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7 years

I think it is “Double Microwave”

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8 years

Everyone knows you gotta double nuke Hot Pockets… So the lyric is actually “double microwave” not devil microwave, (comm'on guys) So the first time you pull it out of the microwave its luke warm so you have to double nuke it and usually it explodes and is deadly hot almost too hot to eat which Danny is comparing him self to…. The Boy is too damn hot.

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Ian

9 years

take it from someone raised in Milwaukee. double microwave was a paired microwave and electric oven. seeing as the midwest is freaking epicenter of useless kitchen and electrical crap.

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Stephen

9 years

Dover Microwave. It’s a company that makes microwaves.

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mike

10 years

Hot pocket off a DOUBLE microwave. The first time you put in a hotpocket, its never warm enough or fully defrosted, But the second time you put it in to finish the job, it comes out hot as hell to the point of being un eatable

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Ben

11 years

I know that many drug dealers use microwaves to process cocaine into crack. Now, I don’t know if DB ever sold crack, however when he was arrested his charges did include “manufacture” of narcotics so it’s possible. Just a suggestion.

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The squall paused
With an oddness and stillness that felt
....Ominous Latyrx – Storm Warning

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Refers to the still silence before a tornado forms…

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10 years

Should say, “With an idleness and stillness that felt…”

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The Baltic, Bulboous ,Cumlous
Looked more like swabs of cottoon in a charcoal dip Latyrx – Storm Warning

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Types of clouds…they’re darkening.

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10 years

“…like swabs of cottoon in a charcoal dip…”
http://monnsqueak.typepad.com/.a/6a00d8341c87c653ef01543451f046970c-800wi

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And sell some gifts that I got Ben Folds Five – Brick

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Folds has said that neither teen wanted their parents to know, so Ben ended up taking most of the presents he received that Christmas and selling them at a pawn shop so he and his girlfriend could afford the abortion.

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Her mom and dad went down to Charlotte
They're not home to find us out Ben Folds Five – Brick

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Her parents are out of town in Charlotte, NC and they’re doing this in secret.

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My single friends say "Te, ya family's beautiful"
I'm like if only y'all niggas knew what it cost me Phonte – The Good Fight

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People compliment Phonte on his family, but they don’t know how much blood, sweat, and tears he had to put forth in order for them live comfortably and be such great people. .

Note the average cost of center-based daycare in the US is $11,666/yr, so now we have a relative idea of how much it might “cost” ‘Te in actual money…

(Not to mention the personal costs associated with being a family man with a career in hip-hop.)

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Maybe I should cry for help
Maybe I should kill myself
Blame it on my ADD, baby AWOLNATION – Sail

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These two lines illustrate that deep down inside he begins to understand that what he is doing/feeling is wrong. He is in a great deal of pain by not being able to give his loved one what she needs/wants. Like many people fighting depression/addictions/various mental disorders, he contemplates between seeking out professional help and the negative emotions like committing suicide.

By ending each verse with the excuse he originally created in his mind, he shows us that those emotions take over his thought process.

The structures of the lines here are actually genius since he actually goes through the motions of A.D.D., deciding on what to do, but starts from being helpless and then moves to the extreme idea of suicide.

Notice how when he says “maybe I should kill myself”, you keep hearing “kill myself” repeated in the background for a few seconds. This shows that it’s a thought he’s constantly having, the idea of killing himself is repeating in his mind.

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These two lines illustrate that deep down inside he begins to understand that what he is doing/feeling is wrong. He is in a great deal of pain by not being able to give his loved one what she needs/wants.  Like many people fighting depression/addictions/various mental disorders, he contemplates between seeking out professional help and the negative emotions like committing suicide.

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By ending each verse with the excuse he originally created in his mind, he shows us that those emotions take over his thought process.

Notice how when he says *"maybe I should kill myself"*, you keep hearing "kill myself" repeated in the background for a few seconds. This shows that it's a thought he's constantly having, the idea of killing himself is repeating in his mind.

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5 years

He would cry for help by killing himself. Many suicide attempts are just cries for help.

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The “maybe I should kill myself” line refers to the feeling of inadequacy he feels bc of his ADD. He thinks that it may make the lives of those he loves better.

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5 years

“Maybe I should cry for help” Now he understands the true nature of the Music Industry a group of powerful people who will kill anyone who exposes the truth to the public.
“Maybe I should kill myself” He also understands that this is a life or death situation where he is questioning either or not f he should kill himself before they kill him.

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Hope you still like me
F-U, pay me Beyoncé – Run the World (Girls)

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She is referring to the glass ceiling and the gender disparity of income in the U.S., in fact, women make 80 cents on the dollar compared to men. Even male nurses, who only recently hit the scene, make more than female nurses.

She is also quoting Ray Liotta in Goodfellas:

F* you, pay me.

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4 years

it’s also nice how the lyrics say “F-U”, that stands for “f* you”, but, sonorously speaking, we can hear her say “hope you still like me, if you pay me”, kinda suggesting that she only care for these mens (that underestimate her) money

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