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Too quick 14 no license, that's some awful full shit Tyga – Dads Letter
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He got it towed before he even had a license. Not good.

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Warrior, like Cleon; Tyga – Palm Trees
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Tyga is saying that he is a warrior. Cleon was a warrior in the movie “The Warriors”.

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22 like Emmitt Tyga (Ft. JMSN) – Drive Fast, Live Young
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He’s 22 years old..

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But we still owe 'em 40 acres now we've stolen their 16 bars Macklemore – White Privilege
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General Sherman promised former slaves “40 Acres and a Mule” as reparation for slavery after the Civil War. However, this promise to African Americans was never fulfilled. Not only did white people take back the land from black people, they took a method of coping with the struggle, hip hop. 16 bars is the length of the average verse.

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Never thought I'd smell the scent of innocence
Living in the city made my own mind my nemesis Captain Murphy – The Ritual
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“Livin' in the city” most likely means he moved out of home because he was offered a deal with the devil and sold his soul. He’d never thought he’d find an innocent person, after living in the city which can lead to an amoral lifestyle after seeing so much sin. He eventually adopted that mindset too, leaving his own mother to disown him.

Seeing as though he is referencing sins of the flesh in the next line implying that being in a city filled with sin… sin is all he thinks about now.

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Living in the city he has isolated himself and internalized his experience with set expectations, such not being able to find an innocent girl. He has managed to become his own worst enemy with his ruminating thoughts.

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It's just for precaution, your new family is awesome
You're gonna love it here, drink another beer and listen here Captain Murphy – The Ritual
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Captain Murphy is saying that he blindfolded the girls for precaution. In the previous line Dead_Language alluded that Captain Murphy may actually talking about the listeners. That would make this line an acknowledgement of his concealed identity and lack of information.

One of his tweets reads “Doesn’t matter who I am. Just listen.”

Basically, you are going to love listening to his shit, so just sit back drink a beer and relax. These girls are going to love the family he is taking them home to.

Pretty much they are going to be leaving everything they know and love to join this cult (new family). Like how Captain Murphy says that since he’s been in it his mom was made a nemesis, most likely meaning she didn’t agree with his decision to sell his soul to these people in the first place.

He encourages the girls who have lead stressful lives in the past to lose themselves.

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Learned how to do the Dougie with the devil in the moonlight Captain Murphy – The Ritual
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Most likely a a Batman refernce. In the first Tim Burton Batman movie, the Joker asks people throughout the movie if they “ever danced with the devil in the pale moon light?” before he killed them.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8gfMXEmCew4

The Batman movies and the Devil happen to be, arguably, the two primary topics in Captain Murphy’s The Killing Joke.

In addition it refers to the song Moonlight in which he “dances with the devil in the pale moonlight” and the now infamous song “Teach me how to Dougie”

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aZglqkCRNt8

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Where I skate with the same fucking friends that
Didn't give a fuck about fame or a name, oh Tyler, The Creator – Nightmare
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He is fine with hanging out with the same kids that liked him before he was famous. He would rather skate with these true friends than hang out with fake-ass people that only care about his status.

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Ether (Ha ha ha); they can't get past the deep voice Flying Lotus (Ft. Captain Murphy & Earl Sweatshirt) – Between Friends
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There are a few possibilities for this one. The first is that “they,” whoever they are, assume Captain Murphy is evil because of his deep voice. And they can’t look past that at all.

A second possibility would only be valid if Captain Murphy is in fact a new alter ego of some other rapper. In this case he would be essentially saying that his audience can’t figure out who he is because of his deep voice. Adding in a maniacal laugh just to poke a little fun at us.

A third possibility is that this line is preemptively trolling everyone for thinking Tyler is the Captain… if you listen really closely, his inflections don’t really sound like Tyler’s, and the voice is obviously deepened by effects but it’s not that much deeper than Tyler’s normal rapping voice (throughout the verse, not this particular line).

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At the time of this song, no one knew Captain Murphy is Flying Lotus, and he “mocks” the audience listening right now that “they can’t get past the deep voice”, thus not being able to understand that it’s just Flying Lotus this whole time with a deep voice effect on.

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Kid Fuji
6 years

The laugh is sampled from the male Orc’s laugh in World of Warcraft

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Josh
10 years

Addressing the third possibility, I don’t think it’s so much that he’s trolling people for thinking he’s Tyler as it is that he’s actively setting them up to think it. He applies so many references to Tyler in the verse that it actually seems like he’s making an effort to implant the idea just to make sure the listeners are thoroughly F'ed with.

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Luke
10 years

Addressing the second possibility, Captain Murphy is FlyLo’s alter ego, and he doesn’t change his voice at all, as far as I know.

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Diethyl ether, also known as ether, is a general anesthetic that can be used recreationally. The euphoric qualities of ether would be the reason for him laughing

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Ether, also known as prana or tachyon is a element that extends anywhere and is accessible at any point in space time and dimension, according to alchemists. People dont really know who captain murphy truly is, and murphy is playing with this idea, saying that he can be anyone at any time because he is not defined as a specific person. This is inherently quite confusing and frustrating for people wanting to know who murphy is, and causes people to be skeptical that flying lotus is truly murphy, hence the “hahaha.” This also goes back to the spiritual ideas presented in murphy’s first few lines, as the dodecahedron, the shape for ether is found in metatron’s cube, a sacred geometric pattern.

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Swagalicious
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A fourth possibility is that he IS evil and is teasing his listeners for being so caught up in how his voice sounds and not paying attention to what he is actually saying hence “Ha Ha Ha they can’t get past the deep voice”.

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As far as bars, you heard wrong if you heard continent
It's incontinence, inconsequent turned sponsorin' Flying Lotus (Ft. Captain Murphy & Earl Sweatshirt) – Between Friends
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Earl has a nice double meaning in the first part of this line. If you didnt lose control of your bowels when you heard the first line then you didn’t hear it correctly.

The second way to interpret this is that if you heard the word “continent” instead of “compliment” then you misheard the line. Thus your view of his skills would go from inconsequent or illogical to worth of being sponsored.

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definitely says inconsequent turd sponsorin', or sponsorer, basically saying he’s making money off “talking shit” or “shitting on the game” without regard

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The more I listen to this song, the more I think the actual end of the line is, “inconsequent turd sponsorin'.” It seems to be a more simple and better flowing interpretation. Also, original authors should still have the ability to edit after it’s published!

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Also, if you continue to mishear Earl it sounds like he is saying “ten continents.” Since there are only seven continents on planet Earth, Earl is suggesting that he make all of (and more) of our world sponsor him. It also is a play on “Incontinent in Ten Continents” by TISM which had a large underground following. Earl is saying that even though everyone loves him across the globe, he still stays true to his unique style.

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