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This track was produced by DJ Dust, whose real name is Nathan Corrona.

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Implicating Sivion, who put out an album called Butterfly Sessions.

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This song finds members of the Deepspace5 crew blaming one another for the burning down of DJ Dust’s (one of the DJ/Producers of the group) house. At the end, sintax.the.terrific (who actually is a lawyer by profession) acts as their legal counsel and defends them.

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Gorillas are powerful, agile, and somewhat unpredictable. Trip delivers his lines in a similar way. But there’s also a playfulness to Trip’s rhymes, which he references by mentioning the traditional playground equipment “monkey bars”.

Trip Lee explained this line on his website.

All of the truth I mentioned above motivates me. This is why I proclaim good news and put out albums. This is why I want to spit bars that catch people’s attention. I want to point them to the source of all things good.

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Continuing on from the previous line, it was also common practice to entice American Indian children with games, to help “whiten” them up. There’s also a double meaning here, which is basically saying to stop screwing around with silly things like games and focus on things that are really important, like not letting your heritage be exterminated.

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Non-believers are even more resistant to the Gospel message, because of the alienation fostered by churches

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Probably a reference to Ezekiel 37, which most people take to be a metaphor for being spiritually dead.

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James Bond famously likes his martini this way, but Freddie Bruno is also saying that he is not easily discouraged, even when influences in his life try to shake him up.

This sentiment is similar to 2 Corinthians 4:8-12:

We are hard pressed on every side, but not crushed; perplexed, but not in despair; persecuted, but not abandoned; struck down, but not destroyed.

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Combining manCHILD with the name Melchizedek, who is mentioned in the bible and various other religious texts. He deserves your respect, as he’s here to make you think about things in a new way.

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Mediocre rappers often hide behind fabricated raps about money, jewelry or drugs.

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Or they latch on to an established artist and use that artist’s power and influence to make themselves appear more skilled or relevant than they are.

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