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Since he lives in the moment, he always has a chance to change himself and as of recently, he decided to embrace his differences from the average person and has moved past it.

In this song, Budden claims that he’s an outcast because he’s one of the few lyrical rappers left, as he constantly mentions throughout the verse.

He’s paying homage to the legendary southern hip-hop duo Outkast, for two of their biggest hits were “Ms. Jackson” and “B.O.B.(Bombs over Baghdad)” from their 1999 hit album Stankonia. He’s also paying homage to them because they’re one of the few lyrical rappers in hip-hop remaining.

Also calls back to “I’m letting Benjamins stack” earlier, as Andre 3000 of OutKast’s real name is Andre Benjamin and his nickname is “3 Stacks” (3000 = 3 stacks).

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Since hard is an adjective and all adjectives are used in relativity to your own experiences, he is wondering what is easy that you can compare life to–since there can be nothing more relative to you than life.

For Example, a man saying that it is cold outside in Mexico may mean it is 70 degrees out while a man in Canada saying it’s cold out may mean its 50 degrees out, thus making their ideas of cold different and cold to be a word that only has meaning relative to its speaker, along with all other adjectives. For more info on the philosophy of language, check out the philosophies of Ludwig Wittgenstein

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Budden isn’t overreacting to the issue of mainstream rap having awful lyrics and teaching horrible morales. He knows this because he hasn’t become any angrier of a person than he was before this problem started, but as this trend has been growing and growing over the past few years, it’s been pressuring Budden to fight against it more and more until he finally had to release his opinions and fight back.

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When Budden was an up and coming rapper, he like most other unknown rappers was told that he would never amount to anything and to give up because his rap career was going nowhere but now that he has finally made it big, everyone is pissed off because they are jealous and are wondering how its possible.

POSSIBILITYÈ

He might be saying that they’re going mad trying to find out because he honestly can’t even figure out how he made it so big.

Also, no matter how many numbers you add together or what type of math you do, it will never equal “shit”. Maybe they should ask Mos Def about this, since he’s the master of Mathematics

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After Budden held his own in the lyrically incredible Shady 2.0 cypher at the 2011 BET awards against Eminem, Yelawolf, and the rest of his rap super-group Slaughterhouse, everyone finally realized that he had a ton of skill and no one wants to fuck with him anymore because they know that he’ll lyrically blow them away.

Budden used to beef a lot, he even beef’d with the Unfuckwithable clan, Wu-Tang.

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Soul doesn’t judge people who fight their government with violence, for he doesn’t know why they do it, if they were raised to be violent and are just a product of their environment, or if violence is necessary in their cases.

For example, a lot of people may have judged the radicals in the 2011 Egyptian revolution against former Egyptian president Hosni Mubarak as terrorists because of their violent response to the government’s suppression of their democratic rights, but in cases like this one, violence was necessary to get the government to respond and obey the people of Egypt’s wishes and it shows how easily people may be misjudged.

This relates back to the main theme of not judging people unless you know their whole story/background.

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Ab-Soul makes his own rules and follows no one else’s, especially those of the government since he is notoriously anti-establishment (as seen in the opening line of the first verse of “Bohemian Grove”. Soulo’s fans already know this,however, since that’s what the theme of his major label debut Control System was.


ANother way to see it:

He wrote the score, aka the music, and then he scored which could mean his music was succesful as well as he “scored” (slept with a fine female).

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50 Tyson is an autistic rapper who claimed his fifteen minutes of fame after becoming a youtube sensation in 2009 and being featured on tosh.0 in 2010. He became and still is currently signed to former basketball player Troy Hudson’s label Hudson Records.

Ab-Soul doesn’t fuck with 50 cent and he’s the rap equivalent of Mike Tyson. Mike Tyson was better than any other boxer that he fought in the ring (one could argue) and Soul is better than every other rapper that challenges him in the rap game.

When saying “enticing” he emphasizes the TICING to make it sound like Tyson, to make these three bars flow.

POSSIBLE INSPIRATION: 50 Tyson got his name because someone told him that he looked like a cross between 50 cent and Mike Tyson. This might be why he decided to mention 50 and Mike Tyson in the same phrase as 50 Tyson.

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He’s now confronting the girl, trying to tell her that he understands her and what she’s trying to do. Unlike how he saw the first girl as insecure and just trying to fit in, he sees this girl as sincere and confident and for what she truly is, beautiful.

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A reprise of the hook. Already explained here in the first hook.

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