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Joy

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I don’t wanna eat at yo tableI dip from gravity my sister is mabelShort songs I made it never was a fableSyWavy description I am my own label, uhEffect is so different it’s built unrelatableChoir the sample it’s always inevitable

To hear from you it’s not even capable

You reaching Lil nigga my sound is unnameable

Unnameable

They peep they hate, they say how is it attainable

I’ll just show you I got it from joyAll praise to god I kept rappingAnd if I was you I would hate me to andThe trip to Ville I had forbidden fruit andI hum on songs and I come with the harmonyHe see the future, he practice misogynyAnd my friend just told me, all she used to is taunting me

Now that she left and we free to no bothering

I hit my shot I got everyone hollering

Snippet I made with Jett it’s a triller

No exchange on the songThe soul is like tillerHands stay together I do my five pillarsLike who is that niggaI got joy my niggaJoy my niggaGot joy my niggaI got joy on top of joyThey love the kid like it’s choice

I see Flashing Lights like it’s Royce

But I ain’t have a graduation

I might get CR I’ll be patientGreatness awaits I’ll only take itAnd she said all you wanna do is hang upIf I see some plays I gotta make itCan’t understand and can’t relate itI got joy on top of joy

Joy on top of joy

Joy ain’t got nothing on it

Cory nigga I just got a TopangaI got joy in this bitch I just whipped out my bangerThey like why she did that I can’t even explain herHat on my head it don’t fit Timmy TurnerRecorded off eight I was using a burner

Down in my soul, I got gospel the sample

Get it how I live I couldn’t use an example

Down in my soul where I take it

Joy in this bitch it’s nothing on it

Made on the first like good morningJoy on top of joy like I ain't on itI got joy on top of joyI got joy on top of joyI got joy on top of joyI got joy on top of joy

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Gravity Falls

The Disney cartoon about twins Dipper and Mabel Pines spending a summer in a strange Oregon town. Leaving becomes a pun on Dipper's name, which makes Mabel his sister.

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The opener lays out where he stands: he answers to himself, no genre fits him, and a choir sample sits under everything. Everyone else is reaching for something that comes naturally to him.

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The title comes into focus here: joy, and gratitude that he never quit making music. He even makes room for the people who will hate on him, and admits he'd feel the same way in their place.

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J. Cole

Fayetteville, North Carolina, J. Cole's hometown, goes by the Ville, and Forbidden Fruit is a song from his 2013 album Born Sinner. The trip and the fruit both come from him.

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Future

The Atlanta rapper hides in the line: seeing the future is also seeing Future.

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Triller

The short video app that courted musicians in 2020 as a TikTok rival. A snippet posted there doubles as calling the song a thriller.

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Bryson Tiller

The Louisville R&B singer whose 2015 debut, Trapsoul, made his name. He folds that album and one of its biggest singles into back-to-back lines.

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Five Pillars of Islam

The five core practices of Islam: the declaration of faith, daily prayer, charity, fasting during Ramadan, and the pilgrimage to Mecca.

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Kids' Choice Awards

Nickelodeon's yearly awards show, where kids vote for the winners. The kid and choice together make its name, and Timmy Turner, from another Nickelodeon show, turns up later in the song.

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Flashing Lights

Kanye West's 2007 single from his album Graduation. The next line turns that album's title into a joke about his own schooling.

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CR is short for copyright, as in owning the rights to his music. There was no graduation, but he might get his songs copyrighted, and he's willing to wait for it.

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Boy Meets World

The 90s sitcom where Cory Matthews and Topanga Lawrence grow from classmates into a married couple. He casts himself as Cory, with a Topanga of his own.

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Timmy Turner

The kid from Nickelodeon's The Fairly OddParents, known for his big pink cap. His own hat would never sit like that.

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He recorded this on an iPhone 8 he was using as a burner, a cheap spare phone.

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He comes back to the sample, a gospel record, and makes clear the joy runs deep. There was no blueprint to copy either: he built the song out of his own life.

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I've Got the Joy

The Sunday school song I've Got the Joy, Joy, Joy, Joy (Down in My Heart). The song's title, the joy piled on joy and the gospel sample all point back to it, with his soul in place of the heart.

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Good Morning

The opening track on Kanye West's Graduation, the album he joked about earlier in the song. Coming first is what this song and that one have in common.

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