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“Subways” samples a song by the same name by Chandra for the chorus. Chandra was 12 years old when the song was recorded in 1980, making her around 48 when the Avalanches released this version in 2016, causing Robbie to comment:

It must be very strange for her today to hear her 12-year-old self sampled in another dimension exploded around in space and time, coming back out through the radio again."

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3p7Nib6yJ6o

Diverse sample choices from across the decades such as this one is why Pitchfork remarked on the “weird funhouse-mirror quality” of the samples that “can either be comforting or unsettling, depending on your angle of approach” in their Wildflower review.

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This sample comes from the beginning of the Beatles' “Come Together”, as performed by the Kew High School choir.

This was the most difficult sample to clear on the album as Paul McCartney and Yoko Ono usually refuse to allow the Beatles to be sampled. The group got the clearance after sending a “heartfelt” letter that stressed the sample would be respectful rather than gratuitous.

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This collaboration with hip-hop veteran Biz Markie of “Just A Friend” fame is a leftover from The Avalanche’s work on the soundtrack to a Japanese cel animation film.

The group told Zane Lowe that the “hip-hop version of Yellow Submarine” fell through due to lack of funding but “The Noisy Eater” was recorded during that period.

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The hook is a loop of the vocals from the Tommy James & The Shondells song “Lost In Your Eyes”.

The sample starts at 1:27

https://youtu.be/md0MexFnYZc?t=1m26s

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“Extra pills” is an ad-lib that Schoolboy Q came up with on “Druggies With Hoes Again”. Danny and Ab-Soul borrowed it on their collaboration “Terrorist Threats”.

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“Over The Rainbow” is a song from The Wizard of Oz that Dorothy sings to express her desire to visit a mystical place like Oz.

Here, Mort Garson’s version of the song reflects a disillusioned worldview by claiming that there is nothing special to be found “over the rainbow” – it is just as desolate as the world we live in.

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Rocky is the protagonist of the series of Rocky boxing movies. DOOM views himself as one of the villains from the movies rather than the scrappy hero.

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Frankie “Hollywood” Crocker was a famous NYC radio personality in the 1970s who helped pave the way for “urban contemporary” music to make it on the airways. His flamboyant on-air persona also served as a precursor to some of the larger-than-life hip-hop personalities that emerged in the 1980s and 90s.

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“My Way” is one of Frank Sinatra’s most famous songs, an ode to living life exactly how you want to live it. Given the first person structure of the song and the importance it places on independence it actually makes sense for a rapper to reference the track.

(It was also [written for Sinatra by a songwriter] who felt Sinatra’s threats of violence were all talk, making it even more relevant to the modern hip-hop landscape.)

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Binaca bills itself as “a refreshing spray that blasts away bad breath.” In this case, Danny is spraying semen in a girl’s mouth rather than breath care product.

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