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A telephone connects people to other people. In this context Jay is saying that you can use your brain to call for help, the brain is connected to everything to the muscles, organs etc. The song is called dimethyltryptamine a compound produced by the body and which is thought to be produced at night during REM sleeping.
In the same spots where shell-toes was doin' back spins Jay Electronica – Not Too Far From Nothing
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Where he lived people were blatantly selling or buying/looking for cocaine where, just a moment before, children and young adults were dancing. This shows the good and the bad that the Magnolia Projects offered Jay.
“Shell-toes” is the nickname for Adidas Superstars, an iconic shoe that was heavily featured in Hip Hop culture in the 1980’s onward. It was worn by Run-DMC as well as many B-boys and B-girls.
Check the three stripes.
A backspin is a popular move in break-dancing.
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In the time of the release, Martin Luther King had recently been assassinated and rights movements became more prominent
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Might be referring to the Matrix, Neo otherwise known as “The One”
For now I settle for a Grammy on a track like this Jay Electronica (Ft. Che Grand) – Hagler
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His rhymes will be “so outstanding” that he’ll receive a Nobel prize in literature for his rhymes, because they’re so good not even a Grammy is enough of an honour
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In Transformers Megatron is the antagonist, the leader of the evil faction called the Decepticons
Just Blaze, a producer who Jay Electronica has collaborated with (though not on this song), is nicknamed “The Megatron Don”.
Instead of megatron Maybe he was trying to Pronounce metatron As in the archangel that protects the tree of life and Distributes the flow of energy throughout life.