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Suffa depicts himself as a beast, hungry for success, adding that whenever the Hoods experience success, or receive an accolade, that they treat it as if they haven’t in a long time, this highlighting their appreciation and humility.

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The Underachievers and the whole Beast Coast movement in general is gaining a lot of hype and receiving praise from the hip-hop community.

Their debut mixtape Indigoism has amounted over 100k in downloads at DatPiff and has obtained favourable reviews from notable music review sites like Pitchfork, Hip Hop DX and The Needle Drop .

Given their increasing popularity and their fresh new vibe it is no wonder why they could be making current rappers look silly.

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Our problems become insignificant once we realize how small they are compared to the rest of the universe.

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Governments create bloody wars to profit financially and to oonquer new lands.

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The animal crawling from a shallow pool represents our evolution as a species – in modern evolutionary theory it is believed that mammals evolved from a hybrid fish who possessed both primitive lungs as well as gills which means it was able to walk on land.

Seth’s sees the evolution in a more pessimistic manner – although we’ve advanced greatly; he feels that our lust for power and dominion (which are represented by knuckles) has evolved as well

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The hole in the bucket represents Seth’s life – he is attempting to fill up his emptiness (hence the image of a bucket with a hole) with money and wealth.

Seth refers to this human need to rely on materialism to create purpose as greedy and primitive

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Pressure is so in unison with hip-hop that he has the scars of it physically embedded into his very being.

The Stigmata is a term used by Christians to describe a condition in where a person receives wounds and scars corresponding to the crucifixion wounds of Jesus Christ.

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Whilst Rakim might be the Microphone Fiend Pressure is the microphone felon and his master plan is to steal and captive the hip-hop scene by surprise.

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This mysterious guy tells him not to quit on his dream of becoming a rapper because it pays well.

Jack some sine waves is a reference to radio-waves which can be represented as sine waves. In this case, the guy tells him that he can steal some radio time to put Pressure on so he can showcase his talent.

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It takes hard work and struggle in to achieve your goals

Pressure is making an analogy to bodybuilding – in order to build muscle you need to pull the muscle against high amounts of resistance – muscles usually are damaged during this slightly painful process, but when healed they become much stronger and therefore are able to resist even greater weights.

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