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Y.M.F is another one of Souls aliases, as well as Black Lip Bastard/Pastor, “Mayday”, and Mr. Absolutely.

https://twitter.com/abdashsoul/status/264607623293304832

It represents his ability to make people think and the abstract ideas he presents in his music.

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Soul’s favorite subject is theology—the study of God. He told this to a caller on Sway Universe, when asked if he believed in any particular religion:

I’m non-denominational. But theology is probably my favorite subject. I like to study them all. And that gives me a wide range of ideas and different things to cross-reference.

Soul’s interest in these fields was piqued when he began to lose his vision. It made his focus more intense:

Flowers grown in feces is a reference to psychedelic mushrooms. This indicates that Soul likes shrooming.

“Christ Conscious” is Soul’s way of showing his awareness of the Christian religion.
He grew up in the church. It’s also a song by Joey Bada$$ from his 2015 album B4.DA.$$. Soul is a big fan of Pro Era.

A Pishon is the highest form of a being. It’s also a river mentioned in The Book of Genesis.

The chicken came before the egg is Soul’s way of saying that the woman existed first and then she started giving birth, instead of her being the seed of a man.

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Ab considers himself a demigod, which is a being superior to humans but also still prone to make mistakes. This ties back to the previous line about stopping certain behaviors, but surviving all of his trials makes him feel divine.

A few of the older tracks he is referencing are “Stigmata:”

I carry the cross, if Virgin Mary had an abortion
I’d still be carried in the chariot by stampeding horses
I’m more than a man, I’ve been died and rose again

And “These Days:”

I’m more than man, I died and I rose again

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The censored word is likely cocaine, but any negative behavior can be inserted.

“She did what she did,” refers to Ab’s late lover Alori Joh, who committed suicide. Ab calls himself a cocaine confidant in the song “D.R.U.G.S,” indicating a drug in which he confides. He claims that after her action, he went back to using, but he refuses to pin the blame on her. He started using again to help ease the pain of her death.

These lines call back to his song, “The Book Of Soul,” where he says:

Your picture’s still on my mirror, and it’s so scary
I swear, I still ain’t looked at your obituary
So now I’m so doped up, I think I’m flyin'
I hope the spliff will never finish

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Despite the amount of drugs he uses, he still functions like a regular person and makes a lot of money. Soul is a junkie with style.

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Alluding to a song by Asaad (whose nickname is “Saudi”), in which he says this same thing:

Perc' 30 flow, you tryna cop Ac?

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Writing lyrics in his notebook got him out of being stuck in a trap, either being the hood or just working a regular 9-5 job that he wasn’t interested in. Binders are in notebooks to hold the pages together, so he uses this double entendre to get his point across.

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The “heffer” in question was reportedly a “groupie” with a vendetta.

When Royce was in his dark place, consumed with addiction, two women exposed him on MediaTakeOut with unflattering pictures. The event occurred after he drank much more alcohol than he should have and had sex with these women who sold their pictures of Royce to the website.

Interestingly, the pictures, while all over the internet at one point, are nowhere to be found now.

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