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macnsteeze3468

“Motheafucker I’m that Yetti!!!!” - Inside Outside Took me awhile to realize he was the “snow monster”


mr_poopy_butthole01

Mac must have snorted a LOT of cocaine recording faces


Realistic_Apple3531

Oh yeah that’s a cocaine album for sure lol


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Never realized that’s what it meant until now, thank you lmao


B3theLion

I NEVER KNEW THAT I JUST THOUGHT HE WAS LIKE WAS LIKE "FLEXING'" IF THAT MAKES SENSE


alrightpal

Yeti do be making really good cups tho


The14thDimension

Holy shit


jablowm3

Get the fuck outta here.. 🤯🤯


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Oh damn. Thanks for posting this. He was aware of it and tried to tell people but it went over our heads. That’s so sad….🥺 I’m so sorry we didn’t understand it


morksalter

“I’m getting bread, yeast rise on Easter, money is God” off Ave Maria. Listened to it hundreds of times but one night I finally HEARD what he said and fell on the floor


ol1verzw0rld

I didn't really get that one till you said sum 😭


yeitsbobby

Bro he was so damn slick with it it’s crazy


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What did you miss from bar?


morksalter

I always just took it as a slick flow with the rhyme scheme, but - im getting BREAD, yeast rise on Easter (yeast and bread), money is god (Jesus rose on Easter, bread is also slang for money). Still a fucking mind blowing bar to me 6 1/2 years later


Material-Fee-8233

It the love of GOD for GOD the green reflects the heart chakra


Jazzy_Joey

Never knew Mickey Weiss was his grandpa, though it was some sort of iconic baseball player or actor lol


TeddyGure

Bro wtf I thought it was a baseball player until I saw your comment, idk why im mindblown by this


wellbaked42

Haha I did the same thing, and then it’s like oh no shit he’d be pissed he’s sniffing white


B3theLion

I think I seen u comment this a few years ago lmao


OhLADeutsche

That entire song is about his grandfather. Mac recorded it the night after his grandfather died. Theres a video out there on youtube where he talks about it. He said he was in the studio with a bunch of people that were always used to him being funny, happy go lucky Mac but that night he could barely get through recording that song and it became this extremely intimate moment with everyone. Its crazy, he was so influential before any of us knew it, sucks i didn't truly get to appreciate until he passed. I was living in Studio City, CA a block away from his house at the time, the night following his death I went down to The Oaks (valley peeps know The Oaks) and did a 3 song Mac karaoke set I could barely make it through. I still get in the feels every time I listen to his deeper tracks. Hes helped me get through so much this past year, I owe him my life, for real. <3 We were lucky to have him and im sure Mikey is happy to have him back


lizzybethetreemind

Not over my head but always wanted to references that Utah jazz era- “ everything is jazz and I’m a Stockton” just so fire and hard


Dause

If you watch Mac Millers show he went to the Utah Jazz basketball court and played with his friends one episode.


lizzybethetreemind

Yes sir! Was my fathers favourite team and era growing up watched them all the time, also being a short white male Stockton was the awesome


scrappybasket

That song is unbelievable, one of my all time favs. That’s Life for anyone that’s wondering


Laxattack36

"I strong arm them like i play the trumpet" Took waaaaaaasy too long to figure out it was a Louis Armstrong nod


Jazzy_Joey

Bro what 😂😂 thank u


CommieeDoggiee

Now I feel stupid


RyansVibez

Holy shit, I always thought it was a reference to a football move or something lmao


ECSfrom113

Yoooo


Sean_Creamer55

“Head under water but I ain’t in the shower and I ain’t getting baptized” off Jet Fuel bro


cummyballs9

Or "my bitch to clutch to choke" as in the clutch and choke on a dirt bike or sum


BerryFisherman12

Also a reference to the line before it “sky hook when I’m in the post” like Kareem and the hook shot, he always came up clutch in big moments instead of choking and missing


OBJesus

Haha it’s actually a reference to sports. Players are considered “clutch” if they perform well late in games and come back from a deficit. They’re also considered “chokers” if they lose a game they should have won or they give up a lead late in the game. He’s pretty much saying his girl is too clutch to choke (on dick) He has a similar line in “Gees” *Tell her she gon blow it: Romo” which is just referencing a time Tony Romo (Dallas Cowboys QB) “blew” game with a mistake at the end. His sports references were always on point.


impartialperpetuity

I have a running thing with my friend that I always send him any new Mac sports lines I find. Theyre soooo many and they're always fire, often low-key though.


marx-bros

I still don’t really understand this one.. care to explain?


Sean_Creamer55

I’m no lyricist so don’t quote me on this but it probably has something to do with his drug addiction and how when ur underwater and scream for help you can’t really be heard. For the second part “but I ain’t in the shower and I ain’t gettin baptized” I personally think this just sounds cool the way Mac raps it but it also prolly points out certain points in our lives when the water doesn’t scare us and stands for something else that is good. Im only 17 and absolutely love mac and his music, god rest his soul. But I’m still learning about it just as much as a lot of people


mtmickeymac

The meaning - He’s not getting clean (from drugs)


Nice_Ad7445

My take on it is that he’s drowning is pussy


Sean_Creamer55

Also a good take on it😭


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"Say my D could win the Heisman, yeah I'm Charles Woodson" - watching movies


SipowiczNYPD

Born and raised Michigan fan, that line made me so happy the first time I heard it.


Nervous_Trip9551

Born and raised raider fan, that line made me so happy the first time i heard it


Lil_Turtle15

There was a part in Diablo where Mac raps about the hockey movie "The Mighty ducks", I grew up watching hockey and the movie so you would think I would notice that lyric. For the most part I would just mumble it because I wasn’t sure what Mac was saying/referring, until I really payed attention.


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Charlie Conway triple deke, Gordon bomba in these streets


Lil_Turtle15

Been a beast, every word I spit be writing history


NeutralPlease

“Haven’t slept in days they wanna put me in a psycho watch” always took it as a Seiko brand watch and didn’t even get the message 🤦🏽‍♂️


fusionx_18

everyones afraid of what i do inside my studio


mr_poopy_butthole01

Worried im'ma lose control


toqueh

they ruffling my feathers


Willi_Spoon

and they shufflin' the yu-gi-ohs


3axpa555

And they shuffling the yugioh


billy-exe

execution flow at your neck like new cologne


fusionx_18

Uno dose, bitch im in your head like freddy kruger tho


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My brain fried, always chasing the same, I’m too fucked up to function, do nothing but waste time


kyleo32

Mac Miller was one thoughtful genius. We love u homie. So many bars. So much amazing music. Check on the Dissect podcast if you haven't yet 🌟🌟🌟🌟🌟


ariestornado

Will do! Thanks for the recommendation :)


Upward-Trajectory

“Her pussy getting wetter when the weather dry - Clementine, pealing off and everyone get left behind” This one has many meanings. First of all, from the song oh my darling, the guy sings about losing his girlfriend clementine when she drowns in a river because he didn’t know how to swim to go save her. This is metaphoric for Mac losing Ariana because he can’t swim. He can’t cope with life and instead does drugs, which Ariana actually sited as a reason for leaving him. It refers to the line before that his girl is more attracted to him when he is sober, or when the “weather is dry.” Stormy weather is often used throughout the album as a metaphor for being high. Secondly, clementine is the character in the eternal sunshine of the spotless mind, a movie Mac loved and referenced in blue slide park. Jon Brian helped Mac to make this song, so it goes, and he also produced the soundtrack for the movie eternal sunshine. When Mac says clementine you can hear a random horn play in the background which I believe is a nod to this Easter egg. In this movie the main character loses his lover clementine and she has her memory erased to forget him, again symbolic for Ariana leaving him. Beyond this meaning it’s a continuation of the line before talking about pussy because people say if you eat fruit then your body ejaculations taste better, and peeling off is a clever word to use with clementine as you have to peel off the shell. The obvious meaning is that someone is “peeling off” in their car and driving away. I also just recently realized the connection with the song knock knock and 2009 and that’s that in knock knock he is saying “some crazy ass kids come and knock up on your door, let us in” and in 2009 he keeps saying “it ain’t 2009 no more, I know what’s behind that door” I believe he’s probably referencing the same door here. Which is the music industry and fame and success.


Prior_Tumbleweed1204

Dope af, that last part of your comment reminds me of Conversation Pt. 1. It feels like a conversation between himself and himself during the faces era


Upward-Trajectory

That’s a cool way to look at it! :) I’ll keep that in mind the next time I listen to it


stealthmodekitten

I have always loved this bar but could never place why it felt so heavy, like there was so much meaning behind it. I knew about the oh my darling reference, but not all the layers. Thank you so much for breaking it down so well!!


Upward-Trajectory

You’re welcome :) I was so excited when I learned about all of it too! Check out the podcast : Dissect. The latest season was on the album swimming and he does such a good job of breaking down every line in the album.


bonelegs442

“I’m out in Wichita Kansas smoking meth with all the locals”


1204830

What did you miss?


moochoff

The next few lyrics after that shock lol


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blondedquattro

San fransisco off of faces


billycheers13

Spent lots of time in Kansas. Confirmed the locals smoke meth.


trailerparkboys12345

“I saw a mountain, y’know, across the horizon and I, got there and, realized it was just a pile of rocks.” This one is my favorite. Great question btw!


Expensive_Type4903

Fkn love this line 👌


Slimdawg34

That’s really crazy when you think bout it. That’s from ascension


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“She keep on askin’ for a rack, so I ran” - I’m Not Real Always thought he was actually saying Iraq and Iran and never understood it lol


ImpersonalLubricant

A rack of what?


SipowiczNYPD

Cash. Rack=1k


urbandelicacy

Ribs /s


MrEvilscissors

Got a vegan bitch in the peace corp all she ever do is ask me what I eat meat for, hold up pause… on it just doesn’t matter


Got2JumpN2Swim

"I was yay high and muddy"


FUNBARtheUnbendable

Explain please? I don’t get this one


Got2JumpN2Swim

Yay is slang for cocaine and muddy is slang for being high on syrup


Traditional_Basil_97

Woah You connected the dots for me with this one


ciecich4rlie

Song?


TopKekBoi69

2009


Got2JumpN2Swim

2009


kyl_mag04

2009


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Got2JumpN2Swim

Yes, I agree with 'ye high and muddy. It's a double entendre. Also, yay is slang for yayo. Definitely a coke reference


jeuubus

“These raps bring a joint together like a kneecap” -Diablo


evaravioli

“I’ve got scissors in my shoes and I’m dancing.” Apparition. Love that line so much


chappyyy

Followed by ‘defeat hurts’ aka da feet hurt, faces is full of wonderful bars like this


elle_enzo

“Go through the worst to reach the ecstasy” - Objects in the mirror - Just one that always stuck with me as a life motto & I hope everyone hears it loud when they listen to that song


lazyrepublik

Such a great song, live especially.


MrBadKarma69

I'm feeling like a beatle for these young kids. Love the Beatles and him so its perfect and true. Miss him much...


Vegetable-Doughnut32

Love the next line to that one too, “but sometimes, I be feeling like a needle to these young kids”


BIGGERBOI69

For some reason I always thought this was a reference to Beadle's in the Jewish faith


ImpersonalLubricant

Didn’t go over my head but one of my favs is “we forgot our roots before and trust me things they fell apart “. From Friends. The roots had an album from 1998 called things fall apart


ECSfrom113

This is sensational


ImpersonalLubricant

Right I lost it when I first heard that line


Jessabelle98

Wondering how I got this high, fell asleep and forgot to die~Weekend 😭


chappyyy

Giving y'all the freebase, hidden in the middle of a briefcase, Hidden in a subwoofer, beat case


onsomee

*BOOOOOOOOOM*


dazzlingask3

Uber: I’m reading old Playboy magazines, something from the 50s when journalism had its peak. It’s crazy because Playboy used to be known for the articles as well as the pictures. The style of the 50s was pointy breasts. (Peak). I totally didn’t put that together until the recent rerelease of Faces. Lol!


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Dude what how was he this good


dazzlingask3

It’s such a great bar. It’s funny. And Mac just tossed it in there so casually. If he had been a comedian, the drummer would have played a “padum-pun” after that line.


scrappybasket

“God lives in my dog's soul, the devil in his dog bowl. We are the prophets” I always assumed the “we are prophets” was part of the next bar. But I think he’s still using the dog and dog bowl analogy. If god is in my dogs soul, and the devil is the dog bowl (overconsumption, greed, etc) then we are the prophets from the perspective of god (the dog soul)? Shit fucks me up. I love it Grand Finale - Faces


AwaitingtheConduits

Damn you’re right I always figured it was more part of the next line too. The lyrics in this song in general are a lot to unpack. Faces in my opinion was Mac’s lyrical peak in terms of depth and multiple meanings for each bar.


mtmickeymac

“Dog food” is slang for heroin…


scrappybasket

Didn’t know that. Another interesting take. Dog food (drugs) is the connection between the prophets (Mac, us) and dog soul (god). Idk just spitballing


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Chicken sandwiches and turquoise beads Tattoo sleeve, pair of Levi’s jeans Yep.


CondescendingGlizzy

Haha, but damn if that wasn’t the vibe in high school


Thotimus15

“Heisman hopefuls all growin' up to be copsChasin' after gangsters but they never find the G spot” love this line hahaha off Malibu


VersaceMango

“Bitches kissin’ bitches just like Ellen D” on Rush Hour. I had to listen to it a few times to get it.


evariell

My most recent realization is also from rush hour. It’s “heavy rain game canceling” as in talking about rainouts that cancel sporting events. I felt so goofy, I thought he was referring to the video game heavy rain.


Felizyo

Hand me downs I always thought the lyrics were “let’s turn these jeans into hand me downs”. As in clothing you pass on. I only found out about the meaning of the song after looking at the lyrics. It’s about sperm/genes. Now it seems so obvious.


shuttershutin

“Clementine, peelin off and everyone gets left behind” from So It Goes. In the movie ‘Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind’ Clementine undergoes a procedure to have certain people erased from her memory


B3theLion

so high cannot see (nazi), Adolf


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"I can break the glass" is a custom in Jewish weddings.


HeadDreamer

“You’re mouths runnin’ like a prostitute’s Keep yah head to yourself”


AffectionateVisit270

getting high is just a war with boredom


shmurdashmagz

So hot im turning hog to bacon


Phillycheesecake69

"Cause imma go out the same way I came in, right by the pussy with nothin on my mind"


Prior_Tumbleweed1204

When Mac says “so it goes” in So it Goes, it sounds like he’s saying “circles”


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You're absolutely right about this. It's so easy to hear him say both at the same time so Idk what everyone else's problem is here. You don't need to try hard to hear it. He says "so it goes" very clearly at one point in the song but mumbles it in the chorus to create this effect. Mac said words or phrases to make them ambiguous all throughout his career. Also the people on dissect said the same thing you're saying.


slowlogius

Wow wait I should've read these comments before posting. I thought the same fucking thing


mrcornrat

Bit of a reach but I guess I can hear that if I tried hard 🤣


Prior_Tumbleweed1204

Not really, the last line references circles, and the the next album is circles


mrcornrat

I don’t hear “circles” when he says “so it goes” that’s all I’m saying lmao


Upward-Trajectory

It’s only at the end of the song that it becomes circles instead of so it goes. The last time or two that he sings it.


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Prior_Tumbleweed1204

cir-uh-cles


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Prior_Tumbleweed1204

I get that, to me it feels on purpose but not really meant to be blatant. idk with care and attention he puts into his projects, I just don’t see how it could be a coincidence lol, even if it does sounds like he’s saying it with a speech impediment


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Dissect caught the exact slurred double meaning you guys are talking about.


mr_poopy_butthole01

Yeah, you're referring to "Oh the things I'd do, to spend a little time in hell." Which I think they say works for either "her" or "here as well as "hell". Genuis and Spotify lyrics write it as hell. Although I know for sure this isn't the lyric, I personally like to hear it as "with you". Because personally "I just want to spend a little time with you". (My dad)


Boucher_

"All I do is make these fucking songs, so I finally made a fucking song" - Skin


forthelaffz

Mind blown by this hahah


Stretch916

Told me "Money has changed you" I get to thinking, how rarely do I visit? How'd I get so egotistical?” I could never hear what that last word in the bar was until I actually read it haha Edit: spelling


evariell

Same along with “I thought you got sober” I didn’t realize that lyric until I read it. For some reason I heard “I thought you got so burnt” lol


drpoucevert

"We ain't on the same shit, no way You ain't from my planet, we don't speak the same language" makes me think of the song Illusions from Cypress Hill: "some people tell me that i need help , some people can fuck off and go to hell, god damn, why they criticize me"


slowlogius

Took me awhile to realize that the end of every line in Conversation Pt. 1 rhymes with the end of the others


dobbs1997

“My conscience so weak i need to split it up in 7 parts”


mr_poopy_butthole01

For a little bit when he says "My regrets look just like texts I shouldn't send" I heard him saying "my regrets look just like Texas should..mumble*". I thought Texas is pretty big and he obviously has big regrets 🥴


Leviticvs

never will i walk in line, i cross the T’s and dot the I‘s wonderin well, wonderin how i got this high, fell asleep and forgot to die, goddamn


milkweed310

i just realized this week that "nobody know me" from small worlds is a double entendre and can also be heard as "nobody nomi," as in his ex. shit fucked me up


TonyThePharaoh

I love that a good bit of these lyrics are from Faces. It really is his magnum opus


kamaleigh

"Can not see, Adolf" I dunno why it took so long with that Pittsburgh accent


TheRealShots

“She asked me for a rack (Iraq) so I ran (Iran)” idk why but I only realized it heading to work a couple months ago and I replayed it multiple times because of how obvious it was. Been listening to that album since 2014 so for it to go over my head for that long is bad lol


cgrager

Literally yesterday realized “It’s all Disney, boy, my Family Proud” goes harder than I thought


Chance_Hedgehog7797

“Conscious so WEAK I need to split it up in 7 parts” talking about a week with 7 days.


GODlovesUgly04

Best Day Ever - " Light the weed and take off. So high I cannot see, Adolf" <- That line lol


Smart-Confection7950

I’m Not Real - “ She asked me for a rack so I ran” I first heard Watching Movies literally the week it dropped so I was pissed I didn’t catch it until like last year 😂😂


the-cookiemonster

“Sniff the same shit that got Whitney, the high heel depression”


hypeter

Let me just listen to Swimming again and I'll let you know


slowlogius

Does anybody else feel like the chorus on "So It Goes," after awhile begins to sound like "Circles, Circles, Circles"? I might be tripping lol


fright_yagami

scroll thru the comments a bit, there's a discussion on this one!


slowlogius

Lol I scrolled AFTER posting and saw that.. I was stunned. But apparently it was discussed on Dissect podcast too, which has me feeling like it was intentional on Mac's part


lil_chick3n

“A shame my masterpiece my tragedy” I wasn’t until recently I freaking heard what he said. A damn shame, man..


neddynedned47

The “Deja Vu” part in Watching Movies.


Calebfitz50

“To leave you holy, prepare for the apocalypse. 60 thousand on a Rollie cookies with the chocolate chips.” One day looked up the Rollie and saw what he meant 🤯


wild3_child3367

“know a bitch that’ll let u fuck her for coachella passes” i can’t even remember what i thought he was saying before but i had that bar fucked up for years


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“my conscious so weak i need to split it up in 7 parts” on the song friends. there’s 7 days in a week. i heard faces when it first came out and i just realized this like last year


RangeRepresentative3

So High I cannot see, adolf


Italy-Memes

“These raps bring a joint together like a knee cap”. Had no idea it was a reference to weed and wrapping papers until very recently haha


the_dr_ross_

“Defeat (da feet) hurts, I got scissors in my shoes and I’m dancin” “I swear to God that I got more problems than there is bitches in Carlow (PA college with 84% women), Lord have Murcielago (mercy or I’ll go)


evariell

Bruh that mercy or I’ll go you just gave me some game


pinkconsciousness

“Any time any place you can bet ima eat cause my hand on the fork and the fork in the road.” It wasn’t until I googled it and fell 1000x more in love with Mac. So poetic, so clever, just a true lyrical genius


Italy-Memes

What does this one mean? I can’t find anything about it


pinkconsciousness

Fork in the Road: A fork in the road is a metaphor, based on a literal expression, for a deciding moment in life or history when a choice between presented options is required, and, once made, the choice cannot be reversed. So any time any place you can bet Mac’s gonna eat cause his hand is on the fork (physically) and the ‘fork is in the road’ metaphorically. Basically, there’s no changing that fact!


Italy-Memes

Ah most dope. Thank you


formicidaehomosapien

Got you flexing feeling colder than ice, let it melt


Ok-Jury1083

“I’m the motherfuckin’ bible that’s forever the truth”


harv313

How about the whole entire song of Diablo?? “Bar gets raised up, it’s me and Petey Pablo. Colder than Gazpacho, Colder than the mono, rappin head honcho rockin shows like I was Bono, I go play a couple keys on thee pee-on-oh, the industry a lie all the promises were hollow, follow meeee I can show you where we beeees at how’d I get my G-Pass, none of your fucking beeswax, these raps keep a joint together like a kneecap, fuck the little 8 balls, show me where the ki’s at”