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He does not exist to clean up messes made by other people.
“Dish rag” / “dish out” – one of several examples in this song of repeated words with different meanings.
Despite being such a mundane object this “dish rag” metaphor somehow works because it connects with images presented in Yelawolf’s other songs: all the beer, all the Jack, the biker’s passed out on the couch at his Mom’s house and all the spilled drinks that likely had to be soaked up along the way.
That you can just follow and push around Yelawolf – Till It's Gone
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Pop 80’s sensation aside, a “new kid on the block” often receives mean or violent treatment from peers. Unfair as it may be, it’s a rite of passage for the new kid, who either folds under the pressure or stands up to it and earns respect.
Yelawolf definitely gets respect. Just ask Machine Gun Kelly or this overzealous fan.
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Ivy grows quickly and invasively, climbing up walls and enveloping entire structures. Poison Ivy in particular, is deceptively harmful, creating skin rashes on contact.
Ivy’s harmless, lush and beautiful appearance contradicts it’s suffocating and harmful properties. Because of this, it is often associated with emotional dependency.
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Shelley addresses the mountain as ‘thou’. a device known as apostrophe — not the punctuation mark — when something inanimate or non-human is addressed. Keats used this technique in ‘Ode to a Grecian Urn’.
Ravines are deep, narrow valleys. The Arve is a river in France and Switzerland; formed by glaciers and home to deep ravines. The speaker uses the majesty of this landscape to depict the depth of human thought.
The alliterative adjectives ‘dark, deep’ and the repetition of the capitalised ‘Ravine’ give this a sombre significance.
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Andre is referring to the odd love triangle between Lois Lane, Clark Kent, and Clark’s superhero alter ego, Superman.
Always dreaming of Superman, Lois could never settle for Clark, who in turn could never allow his alter-ego to be revealed. This star-crossed paradox of attraction and power is not unlike fame, where the superpower of celebrity conceals the sensitive human inside.
This is also a continuation of the “falling” theme, as Superman would frequently find himself catching Lois midair.
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Andre 3000 is awesome on Benz Friendz. His deadpan delivery is razor sharp. His layered, multi-dimensional approach to songwriting is indelible. You can almost feel his inquisitive fingers pushing each hook farther into the stratosphere.
Of course, Three-Stacks is awesome on everything. But in the case of Benz Friendz, Future won’t completely hand over the keys. That is what makes the cut so special. Every time one pop-maestro raises the stakes, the other calls, then raises again. The verse-chorus structure eventually spins out, spiraling into four completely unique hooks, each seemingly good enough to be it’s own song. It’s glorious, meticulous, and almost didn’t happen. In fact, they added it post-mix. Future said in an interview with NPR:
We kept saying, “Man, it’s missing something. We gotta add those different textures over the track.” He kept telling me like, “Man, you always want to keep going back over it over and over and over and see something you can hear. Every time you listen to the track, once they mix it, you might hear something else you want to put on the track. You can’t be afraid to do it again just because you mixed the record. I know they spending they money on the mix but, man, you gotta do what’s in your heart to make the track complete.” So after we mixed it a few times, man, we went back over, did the third verse, did the intro and we built. Went in like, we built on that track for a few weeks.
This track is also a bit of a family affair. Rico Wade, part of the seminal production group Organized Noise—responsible for much of Outkast’s classic material (and this track)—is also Future’s cousin. This might explain why it differs sonically, compared to the rest of the album. Even future said:
It sound like a Future/OutKast record.
Well, whatever it takes. So long as this is the result, we can only hope for more.
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Lil' Boosie is a popular southern rapper who runs in circles similar to Outkast. Though he never broke into the mainstream, Lil Boosie has stayed relevant and vocal in the southern rap world.
Future is also from the area, and has even done a track with the guy, so when he rolls up to this girl’s place, what else should be playing but Boosie?
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