When people stifle angry emotions, or bottle them up, they end up becoming either bitter, passive aggressive people; or they go the opposite way and explode emotionally. Milo seems to be the former.

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

Jack Nicholson explains the latter here.

Milo is saying he is an underground-style rapper, and that’s he’s not going to change himself. Because of this, it’s too bad he doesn’t have a rebreather. A rebreather is a piece of equipment that divers use to use the unused oxygen they breathe out.

If you were underground, this would be useful.

The birds and the bees is a euphemism for sex, usually told to small children to explain the concept of “where babies come from”. Pharrell and Mildred are going to explore this concept of “the birds and the bees.”

Four decades ago, the incomes of people was that of a bell curve:

Now it seems more like a pyramid:

A consortium is a group of people/businesses/groups that work together. In this case, there is a consortium of philathropies that have donated.

This refers to Chapter 9 Bankruptcy under the United States Code. This chapter is meant for large cities. Some cities that have required this include Orange County in California, Jefferson County in Alabama, and most recently, Detroit.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Fb6e2iBsRjc

This opening scene shows a dirty, desolate Detroit. There are abandoned buildings and land everywhere.

A lot of people believe that the only jobs black people can excel are entertainment, like music or sports.

There are plenty of blockbuster movies based on children’s books: -The Hunger Games/Catching Fire

-Harry Potter

-Twilight

Myers is saying that he wishes this story was simple, with simple villains. However, the villainy at work in this story (and in real life) is more complicated, and subtle.