Knox Hill - Houdini Remix (Lyrical Breakdown)

As per usual, I break the bars down as well as I can, including the sexual and potentially offensive ones.
Don't at me, I didn't write the lyrics. Nor am I afraid to talk about sex or any other topic openly in this blog. I went extra raw and uncut on this one - pun intended - to stay true to the nature of the song, while still staying true to myself as well. Fuck censorship and cancel culture, and fuck being nice. Also, I'm rambly as fuck (pretty much always) - deal with it or fuck off. 
(This being said, I do understand if Blogger wants to put a content warning on this post. It just asks the reader to confirm they're an adult and then they can continue reading. I'm ok with that.
Also important to note: Any sentence or implication on this post that refers to Knox or myself doing anything illegal or being violent in any way, shape or form, is not a reflection of the reality. This is for comedic and entertainment purposes only and that comedy gets dark at times. If you cannot deal with it, click away and find something else.)
I did change the color of some of the bits where I stray off the topic too much into something that doesn't directly relate to the lyrics. It helps me understand the song better when I can relate it to something I know, like my own life. If you want the full experience of my thought process and why I think like I do, you can read those, too, or you can easily skip past them since they're in a different color. Assuming you're not literally blind. If you are, I'm open to suggestions. -- I sometimes go back and edit some of my posts, if I notice I made an error or something, and it seems like whenever I edit this post, it returns the font color back to normal :/ I need to come up with some other solution for the future...

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- Ok, I want you to go out there and try not to get us demonetized this time.
- I'm ready, I got this.
- The labels are already pissed at you...
- Oh no...
- ...and we need the revenue.
- We do?
- Just don't say anything offensive. Got it?
- Got it boss.

So he obviously WILL say stuff that offends some people, this is sort of a heads-up about that.

I went back to the song a handful of times during this breakdown (on different days) and didn't get any ads. So he either got demonetized or turned off the monetization on this song.
If he turned it off himself and it was not because of copyrights or the lyrical matter, that's kind of a nice artistic touch. That way the video appears to be demonetized even when it isn't.
Him: "Try not to get demonetized!"
YT: *demonetized*

He's independent, so he's his own boss.

Guess who's back
On the tube
Knox is back
Get the lube
(I have a pen15)

Eminem reference - in both the original Houdini, and in Without Me, Em says "Guess who's back, back again? Shady's back, tell a friend"

Knox is on "the tube" = YouTube,

a lube is used in sex when the human body isn't producing enough lubricant naturally (i.e. in anal), but the people involved still want to insert a penis or a sex toy or whatever into an orifice; that's the sexual innuendo/double,
the other side of the double is that Knox is "fucking someone over" = treating someone badly, with his "pen15" - get it? It's a "pen". And a 15, to make it a double and to get around the YT restrictions on certain words, like penis.

Back with a little bit
of ass I'm a "little prick"
Harassment, you "feel it"?

An asshole or a prick is a person who's mean and unpleasant.
(In Finnish it's "kusipää"="a pisshead", but that can also mean someone who is overly arrogant.)
Those kinda people harass and poke fun at other people.

Back and ass are body parts, a little prick can be any small sharp object like a pen, and it's an euphemism for a penis as well,
and there we get the double of Knox harassing someone with his (apparently small) penis/pen, sticking it up their butt.

"A thorn in the flesh" is someone who is annoying you continuously.

You "act" like you fillin "scripts"
Ya'll "cappin" per "script" descriptions
Perfect depictions
Flashin your worth
You earn in percentage
Per cents per gimmick

"Act", like, to act in a movie, and movies have scripts.
Or to "move to a script" as they say, when someone is acting according to what's expected of them.
A cap in this context can be a lie, or it can be short for "capitalize".

Whoever he's talking about are people who put their image above everything else. They only care about acting as they're expected to act, even if it's a lie, and for making a lot of money (capitalizing), showing it off (flashing their worth), earning their percentages.

I'm thinking label artists, especially in Hollywood.

Accusing others of moving along to scripts is pretty rich coming from a cishet with a nuclear family, whose video descriptions are filled with buzzwords, but I digress.
(I'm just playin, Knox, you know I love you.
I do get that how one identifies is not a choice, most people truly do want kids and that an independent artist unfortunately has to use buzzwords, etc, to get their music out there. The last part sucks, but unfortunately we are all part of this money game.
I'm a liberal leftist feminist who's queer, I work what is essentially a "9 to 5", and I'm also a librarian who reads a lot and wears glasses and cardigans. There are stereotypical, cliché and boring, "script-following" aspects of me, too.
Neither of us are as "punk" or "not part of the system" as we sometimes think we are.
I don't think anyone is as special or different as they think they are. It's a fallacy, created by our own psyche. Similarly to how over 50% of people think they're smarter than average, which is statistically impossible.)

Another possible meaning (although it might be a bit far-fetched) is to criticize people who are half-naked on the internet. They're "flashing their worth" - lowering their own worth to being just a body for people to ogle at, rather than a fully-fledged human being, only showing off their best angles and themselves at their best, the glamorous side of their lives, and earning money from their posts. He's had similar bars in the past, I wouldn't put it past him to have one here as well.
I disagree with this take, but that's a topic for another day.
-- Editing Zinetha here: In hindsight, this does seem out of place, though. He doesn't really do "out-of-place" lines in his songs, doesn't fit with the whole MC's-have-schemes thing.

F*ck what you heard/herd
You herdwicks in fences

Fuck what you heard about me, most of it ain't true anyway.
Herdwicks are a certain breed of sheep, sheep move in herds and are kept behind fences.

If a person is called a sheep, they're a follower, they go with the opinion of the majority of other people on any given matter. Sheep enclosures are also quite often squares, and a square is a person who moves to the script, follows the rules and what's expected of them.
Or the herdwicks go where Knox tells them to go, he's the sheep herder. Who fucks his sheep with his little lubed-up prick.

Tell Daniel Eck to invest
Too into these "checks"
To check who he sext
Who's into his bed?
How you gon sit there and b*tch about "change"
99.99 of what I made
You talkin bout art - what's timeless in place
How can you curate what labels have paid?
(Good question)

One Daniel Eck is a freelance translator, another one is a statistical programmer (or something).
The guy whose face is on Knox's video is Daniel Ek, CEO of Spotify.
His name sounded Swedish and lo and behold, he is Swedish. I always forget Spotify is Swedish. Swedes are very prominent in the music industry anyway, so I guess that ain't a surprise. A huge amount of mainstream pop songwriters are Swedish, and for such a small country (globally speaking) they have quite a lot of international music superstars, like Loreen, Avicii (RIP), Swedish House Mafia, ABBA, Roxette, Ace of Base, etc. If you say to metalhead that a band is from Sweden/Norway/Finland, it's a merit, they'll automatically assume the band is good. We Nordics know our metal. 🤘

Daniel Ek is a self-made IT billionaire, who founded Spotify in 2006 because he "wanted another project". He was already a billionaire at that point and could have retired if he wanted to, at the age of 23. He's married to Sofia Levander, an author and a journalist, who's three years older than him. She's a millionaire in her own right. They dated for a long time and married in 2016. They have two daughters together and keep their family life private.
Sources: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Daniel_Ek; https://fashionstipss.com/sofia-levander-age/

I think the misspelling is deliberate - I'll get back to this in the end of this post.

I can't find any allegations on him cheating on his wife or anything like that, except for this song.

I read some articles on more or less recent Spotify-related news:
- They plan to introduce a threshold minimum, which would mean that any song with less than 17 plays a month would not earn a cent. Instead that money would be distributed to the songs that earn more. This fucking sucks! The music industry is sooo fucking competitive already, and if they start doing this, then the smallest of creators do not get anything from the art they've created. I bet this will discourage SO many aspiring artists from ever putting their music out there, and then the world will be deprived of their art. Not getting paid for what you did but another person benefitting from it financially is music piracy. I think they should do the opposite - create playlists for music they like or other artists or music industry people, or critics like, that have a significantly small amount of streams. I bet people would be interested in what kind of artists i.e. Eminem or Noah from Bad Omens listen to on their free time.
(For context: Bad Omens is one of the biggest, if not THE biggest, metal band of the past few years, that's why I chose to mention Noah out of all people.) Source: https://www.musicbusinessworldwide.com/spotify-is-changing-its-royalty-model-to-crush-streaming-fraud/
- They had a "hateful conduct policy", where they essentially canceled / soft-blocked a bunch of artists that had what they deemed 'hate speech' in their lyrics. I don't think big companies should do this. I think individual people should be allowed to boycott an artist they don't like, but I don't think corporations should have that right. Source: https://faroutmagazine.co.uk/spotify-ceo-daniel-ek-hateful-conduct-policy-was-rolled-out-wrong/
- He is considering buying a mansion in Marbella, Spain. It costs 30 million euros. So he's clearly still a billionaire and is not short on cash. Source is a travel website (in Finnish): https://fuengirola.fi/spotifyn-ruotsalaisperustaja-aikoo-torsata-30-miljoonaa-marbellan-huvilaan/
- He has said that artists cannot continue to record music once every three to four years anymore, that's lazy. Source (in Finnish): https://kaaoszine.fi/spotifyn-toimitusjohtaja-daniel-ek-lahettaa-viestin-suoratoistorojalteista-valittaville-muusikoille-et-voi-enaa-vain-nauhoittaa-musiikkia-kolmen-tai-neljan-vuoden-valein-ja-ajatella-etta-se-riitta/ Especially when it comes to signed artists, I think that's normal. Take Nightwish for example. You wanna know why their previous singer Anette Olzon quit the band? Because their world tour lasted for TWO YEARS and she had a toddler at home she didn't get to see. This is the reality these huge artists live in. They travel, and perform, and give interviews for months and months on end, they simply do not have the time to write new songs. Then they typically come home from tour, take their only vacation in several years, then they write new material and get into the studio to record that material, and then they film music videos and promote the album (well, the label does, but my point is that it takes time), and then release the full album, and then they tour for another 6-24 months. I know this is roughly how it goes for huge artists, and I've only learned it by listening what artists say in interviews, so you'd think someone who actually works in the industry would know that as well?!
- He's saying (and I'm translating from the Finnish translation in the previous article): "Today successful artists know that they have to be in contact with fans constantly. They have to work, tell stories around the album and be in constant contact with the fans." - Sure, to some extent this is true, but real fans don't mind the artist taking a vacation with their family every once and a while, they don't need to know 24/7 what their favorite artist is doing. When you're not on vacation, social media content has become this new thing people expect from their artists. Fans are looking for human connections, in a way - if the artist only exists on Spotify and you never see their face or tidbits about their life or tour or creative process, they remain faceless, music blurs into the mass and they don't remember you. Whereas in if they see you post selfies, pictures of your food or pet, video footage of you performing, etc, they get a (false) sense that they know you and then they see you as a person and not just music, and care about you. Human to human connection that happens now, no matter how curated and surface-level it is, works better than human to 3yo entertainment/art connection. But what I disagree with him on is that this means the artist has to publish new music more often than every three years. I think the other ways the fans can feel connected to the artist are enough.
- He's investing billions on start-ups. The article points out that none of these start-ups relate to music. Source (in Finnish): https://kaaoszine.fi/spotifyn-toimitusjohtaja-ja-miljardoori-daniel-ek-sijoittaa-miljardin-startupeihin-ei-aio-tukea-koronan-kurittamaa-musiikkibisnesta/

Change, like cash, some loose coins you have.
I might be wrong here because I don't really understand how publishing music works or how much Spotify makes per stream (the artist makes about 0,003 to 0,006 dollars per stream, according to multiple sources I found with a simple google search), but this is what these lyrics sound like to me:
- Spotify got revenue for Knox songs, kept 99,99% to itself and Knox got 0,01%.
- Music is art. Daniel has a very businessman-like, cold way of speaking about it. To him it's just a way to make more money. When I studied to be a librarian, our field of study was combined under business studies, so I had to take basic level university courses on business to be a librarian 🙄And now I hate businessmen with a burning passion. They are some of the sleaziest scumbags on this planet.
- Art is timeless, it stands the test of time. But if artists are forced to put out songs when they're not finished, the quality of music drops significantly. I'd say especially the music label artists make is going to suffer. Many independent artists have a day job anyway, their livelihood is not tied to their music. They might get discouraged from making music if their distribution or pocket money they get from the music is compromised because one man with too much power in his hands has decided he doesn't like them because he can't make enough money off of them. Label artists have to keep making music, that is their job. Ashnikko, an artist signed to UMG, puts out a Halloween song every year, since 2018, but in 2022 she was busy working on her album and wasn't happy with how Halloweenie V turned out, so she didn't release one that year. She made another Halloweenie V in 2023 and released that. Decisions like this won't be possible in Ek's dystopia, where an artist has to put out basically any song they make.
- I've heard about this, just can't find the source right now! That labels pay Spotify to promote their artists by putting them on people's front pages and on Spotify's playlists rather than other artists. I think it's unfair! Even if the artists were the same ones, a more fair practice would be to ACTUALLY have people make the playlists (Nik Nocturnal keeps joking that no one works in Spotify but one summer intern year round, because the metal playlists they have suck so bad) and to also feature the most trending artists on people's front pages. The artists that are played the most and the artists that have had the biggest rise in their monthly listeners or songs that have gone viral in the past few days. As a consumer, that's what I'd like to see. I mostly like to exist in my own musical bubble where I listen to the stuff I like - whether it's Billie Eilish with 97,7 million monthly listeners or Hanging Garden with 7226 monthly listeners - but at times, I like to check out what's trending and what other people listen to.
- So, how can one man, or even one company, curate = pick and choose what music his app has, because labels pay for him/it to feature them more? He can't, his integrity is compromised when it's motivated by money instead of what is artistically relevant music or even the most popular music out there. I'd like to think I'm a better curator in my own job as a librarian than he is in his (I'm in charge of the youth section = readers ~13-18 years old). I'm not motivated by money, I'm motivated by what books the youth who live in the area seem to like and what books I like, that's how I decide what books I want to offer to other libraries in the area if they're returned to our library and what I always try to keep on our shelves. Certain series, certain authors, certain pieces of work, etc. I'm fairly new in the field - I graduated in 2021 and just got a permanent contract under two months ago, so I'm sure my expertise will grow over time.

Too bad he's so young, he won't even die or retire any time soon.

Seein "green" that's organic, right?

Green like dollars.

Green like vegetables, and some people are very particular about it being organic or whatever.
Anything carbon-based is organic. Freakin fly amanitas are organic, doesn't mean they're good for you (they're a type of poisonous mushroom, very common in Finland).
If they really cared about nature, they'd go for local food. Not endemic plants from the rainforests, not vegan only, nothing that needs to be shipped to you. Local livestock, quarry, fish, edible plants that grow naturally or are grown there, etc.
I don't care, I eat whatever, but if someone cares.

If Daniel gets his green (money) from the back skins of artists, it is in fact organic. Lol. (Not sure if that expression exists in the English language. It does in Finnish. It means someone else is figuratively paying for something another person gains/benefits from, like Daniel is benefitting from the artists. At least for me, the saying has visual connotations to slavery, and how some slaves were/are literally whipped, tearing the skin on their backs.)

Just another bored satanic type

We still talking about Daniel?
He is evil, so one can call him satanic, but how is he bored?

Googled and found out that there's a Danish philosopher Søren Kierkegaard, who coined a term called "demonic boredom". It's that state of mind when you're so bored you're numb to everything. I call it depression, but whatever.
In that state of mind, you can, to some extent, distract yourself from it with work etc. But if you don't, then it's easy for a person to slip into immorality as a way to escape their overwhelming boredom. He uses William Golding's Lord of the Flies and Stephen King's Misery as examples of this, of boredom turning into being evil. (I've seen Lord of the Flies as a play and Misery as the movie. Spoiler alert!) In Lord of the Flies, the demonically bored person is Jack and in Misery it's Paul. Once you know what demonic boredom is and even vaguely know what happens in Lord of the Flies, their connection seems obvious. But the bored-to-evil pipeline in Misery might escape a lot of readers/viewers. Paul is an author and he's been writing about the same characters for a long time. He's so done with them that in his last book he kills off the main character, so he doesn't have to write about them again. It's clear he hates writing about them, it's causing him a lot of distress and he feels anxious and depressed when he has to do it. The person who captures him, Annie, is a huge fan of the books and can't get enough of them. When she finds out Paul is killing off the character, she gets all psychotic and Paul's life is in danger. He has to kill her to get away. In the book/movie, this obviously happens for real, he literally has to kill her. But I also saw a more symbolic meaning in it - he cannot truly leave these characters behind if a person like Annie exists and keeps them alive. He has to kill Annie to kill the characters and move on with his life.
Source for the philosophical theory: Evil arises from our own boredom. We aren’t inherently good or evil, but… | by gwheels27 | Medium

I'd say that Patrick Bateman from American Psycho fits this stereotype as well. (Spoiler alert!) In fact, he's like a textbook definition of this! His work is boring, his social life is a fake social show-off of who's the richest and the most powerful, and he has no meaningful human connections or any hobbies that'd bring him any kind of fulfillment in life. And this leads to his mental health deteriorating and him becoming a serial killer (or thinking he's become one) to escape that boring life.

Even though I think at that point the boredom is not normal anymore, the lack of emotions and not caring sounds like depression to me, he does still have a point. Psychologically, in my own experience, a very bad depressive episode is characterized by a lack of emotion and a lack of care. The stereotypical behavior of a depressed person such as drinking excessively or self-harm is a way to numb the mental pain they feel. But there comes a point where the pain has continued for so long you don't feel anything anymore. You're numb. Nothing matters. You don't feel anything, you don't love anything or anyone, you don't like anything. The world is foggy, gray, lukewarm, tasteless, odorless, monotone. It doesn't feel real and you don't feel real (=derealization and depersonalization). There are two possible ways a person behaves in this situation: Doing nothing or doing everything. Option one, the more common one, is doing as little as possible, and the more bad your depressive episode is, the less you do. You might stop having hobbies, because they don't bring you joy anymore and feel like tasks. Same with exercise. You walk around life as an emotionless zombie and you might not even have the energy/care to act like you're ok. You stop brushing your teeth and showering because it takes too much effort. You stop eating and drinking because nothing tastes like anything, it's just another pointless chore. You stop getting out of bed because why would you get up, the world has nothing to offer you. 
    The second way a person might behave is by doing everything in their power to feel something. They abuse substances, especially uppers, party excessively, have one night stands, fight with people (verbally and physically), etc. Nothing works, so they desperately go further and further, or they discover that adrenaline works for them and that leads them on a slippery slope of going further and further to feel that rush. And then the person might end up doing some very questionable and immoral things as a result. Even killing a person - some murderers have said they did it for the rush.
    So, the second way of behaving might eventually lead to the person becoming completely detached from reality and do very bad things such as committing murder without feeling anything. Most often people who are depressed only hurt themselves, but this is sort of a very twisted way of hurting themselves - when they get caught doing it, they're going to have to face the legal and societal consequences for their actions.

There are also people like Patrick Bateman, though, who aren't depressed. Their life just isn't fulfilling in the slightest and they lose their marbles. So I guess depression isn't a requirement to become demonically bored... 

I wonder what Kierkegaard would say about psychopaths and narcissists... Are they born evil? Or are they only evil after they do something evil? If a person thinks about hurting other people but doesn't, are they evil?
Our local library has some of his work (translated to Finnish). I might check those out...

Presumably, Knox is talking about Daniel being demonically bored. That he's so detached from reality he doesn't care about art anymore, it's merely a commodity to him, and he doesn't care about people anymore - especially the artists he plans on not paying for their work if other people don't like it, but also us consumers, since he wants to curate us seeing music that the labels paid him to show us and that is made by people who produce a lot of music in a short period of time and that a lot of other people like, not music that the artist put a lot of effort into making or music that we might like even if others don't.
    So far, I haven't noticed a change. The smallest artists Spotify recommends to me have under 1000 monthly listeners (of the ones I've found on my own, the smallest ones have under 100 monthly listeners). 

But Knox could be talking about himself as well?
Hear me out.
Some people are actually out there, hurting other people. Some more, some less, but that's beside the point. Daniel is one of them.
If Knox was actually doing the things he's talking about doing in this song, he'd be one of them as well.  In the intro he says to his "boss" (=himself) that he's not going to say anything offensive, and then goes on to saying a lot of things that are offensive, showcasing a lack of care for what he just promised. So, in the context of this song, he's also demonically bored.

Ridin round with Lucy to the morgue on a tandem bike
Round and round the wheel for the fortune

I don't get this. It might be a play on words I don't get?
That, or Lucy is a person I don't know, who has a connection to Daniel. And they ride a tandem bike, one of those two-person bikes, to the morgue. The tandem bike does suggest these two work together. And then Knox kills them and they end up in the morgue. ..?
Wheel of Fortune is an old tv show, where people are given consonants of a sentence and they have to buy vowels to guess what the sentence is and win money. 

Like Vanna White

Vanna White is an American tv host, she's co-hosted The Wheel of Fortune since 1982. 

Hi
I'm independent
So..
Anybody "claim" me?
I owe um G's / I owe you Em G's / I O U M Gs

One meaning of "claiming" someone is that you "have a claim on them", you think they owe something to you.
I think the other one is that he's independent, so no label has the rights to his music, they don't claim it or him.

Hmm... he owes G's = he owes to "gangstas"... sure, idk.
"I owe --" "O-umm-Gs" = I owe OGs, which is definitely true
"I owe you Em Gs" = he owes Em, which is definitely true
He owes "MCs", which almost sounds like "M G's", definitely true.
Always good to appreciate the people who walked so you could run.

But UMG = Universal Music Group. Knox owes something to them?

So who pays me?

I do. I'm a Patreon member, so I'm paying him.

Mainstream tied to my sails/sales while I'm waving
Got a thick mast I give space like Spacey

Yeah, seems like mainstream, signed artists are tied to his sales, when labels pay Spotify to feature more of their artist's music and then if a song doesn't do well enough, the artist doesn't get paid.

Sails of a boat, waving a flag, a mast.

Waving's a slang word for working "smooth and well". Source: Urban Dictionary.

His mast manages to be little and thick at the same time. Maybe it's short and thick, looks more like a ball than a penis?

Kevin Spacey has acted in at least two movies that have a connection to space: in K-Pax he's a mental institute patient who thinks he's from another planet, and in Moon he's GERTY, an AI on a spaceship. I haven't seen either, I know him best from American Beauty, but I've also seen Working Girl and Seven. He's been accused of sexual harassment of teenage boys, and I've seen an interview where he claimed this was because he was a closeted gay man. The guy's a fucking scumbag, no gay man is sexually interested in minors, the word you're looking for is a pedophile, my dude (or a hebephile - same thing). And no person in their right mind, regardless of their gender or sexual orientation should sexually assault someone or rape someone. That is the one crime that cannot be excused by anything and that I will not defend ever.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kevin_Spacey_sexual_misconduct_allegations 
I almost said "won't defend or joke about, ever", but rape jokes can be funny, if they're obviously jokes (like Knox fucking people in the ass in this song) or if the butt of joke is the rapist. Pretty often the people joking about this shit are not joking, though, they're just making light of it and seeing if other people in the room think it's acceptable under certain circumstances. Testing the waters, so to speak. It very much depends on the situation if I find it funny or not. I do have a dark sense of humor, but I also trust my gut feeling about a person.

You jelly? Just get my jelly

Jelly = jealous
I don't get the other meaning. A flacid penis? No one wants that.
-- Editing Zinetha: Hmm. Look at the next bar. Maybe he's talking about cum? The consistency can be jelly-like sometimes.

I'm a dick
R Kelly - they "pissed"

Another person accused of sexually charged crimes relating to minors. One of the cases involved him urinating on the girl.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/R._Kelly_sexual_abuse_cases

"Pissed" also means angry.

So tell me what's the jizz
I mean gist
I'm great with the "box" - I "mean fist"

Jizz is cum aka sperm, gist is the essence or main point of something. 

The box is the vagina, one way to penetrate it is with a fist (use a lot of lubrication and warming up with fingers and toys before using a fist!).

Boxing is a sport where they use fists to fight. But instead of hoo-has they shove those in each other's faces.
Or make out like in this music video: Dorian Electra - Man To Man (Official Video) (youtube.com)

Ya'll know what I meant

Misspelling #2, and he repeats this one.
Ya'll = you'll = you will
Y'all = you all 

On this mic I tie son / Mike Tyson

Mike Tyson is a boxer (see previous bars).

Tying up someone is another thing some people enjoy doing in bed. Knox likes to tie sons. Luckily not his own, since he only has daughters. 

In a hotel room with "consent"

I don't like the look of those quotation marks 🤣 
He usually uses them to indicate something is a double, but oh gosh this looks so wrong 🤣

Did some googling, and Mike Tyson was convicted of raping an 18-year-old in a hotel room in 1991/1992. He served three years. I don't follow any sports and I was born in 1992, so I didn't know this before now.

So the alleged double was not a double, these were actual quotation marks?

Who's "holy"? Lend an ear

Like a confession (in the religious sense)?
I've been in a position where I could receive confessions. I studied parish youth work (Bachelor's Degree in Youth Work, I'm a Community Pedagog = an expert in raising kids/youth, 0-25yo, and I specialized in parish youth work in the Finnish Lutheran church) and did my apprenticeships, all four of them. At least in Finland the law says that if a person confesses anything to a priest, the priest is not allowed to tell anyone, unless people are in immediate danger (like, if the person is planning to shoot a school or something). If a person confesses to a youth worker 1) they have to make it clear it's a confession, that they don't want you to tell anyone and 2) if they've committed a crime or are about to commit a crime, we have to tell the authorities, but if not, then we're not allowed to say anything to anyone. I've received one confession during that time. Now that I don't work in the field anymore, I'm not actually sure if that law still applies to me or not. I haven't "sworn in" to any parish, so I think it doesn't apply to me anymore? (Priests and youth workers "swear into" a certain parish when they get a permanent job there. It's, like, a ceremonial thing, accompanied by the legal tie-ins.) Except for that one confession I received, I'm not allowed to talk about what that person said or who they were, ever.
It's important to note that I graduated almost a decade ago and didn't fact check myself when writing this. My information might be outdated or I might remember some details wrong. Check Finlex.fi for the up-to-date law.

I don't like the mental image my mind created from the double... His mast has to be VERY small and round to fit an earhole.

For every single style that you "bit"

I don't get the double, I do get that "a bit" is a joke where one doesn't break character, they "commit to a bit".

Some people like biting in bed, but like... What does that have to do with "style"?

Get "bent"
Like Benzino in a hotel room with a friend
(Check out)
Who's mad that I dissed him again?

Check out:
- the song he's referring to: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zDDf60jW8_Y 
- my breakdown of the lyrics: https://zinethasmusicblog.blogspot.com/2024/02/knox-hill-clout-cobain-benzino-diss.html 

I'm not mad Knox dissed him, he fucking deserved it.

"Get bent" = "used as an angry or contemptuous way of dismissing someone's statement, suggestion, etc." Source: https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/bent

Or bent, like bending over, so someone can fuck you from behind.
There were rumors about Benzino being gay with his male friend, because they stayed in a hotel room together. He says it was for financial reasons, that he couldn't afford to be elsewhere.

Only do it for the "clicks"
Who's clique in again?
How many bitch rappers wanna diss me for spins?
I won't react to 'em and they wished we was friends
(I'm sorry)

Misspelling #3, "who's" instead of "whose".
-- Editing Zinetha: Or it's a double: "whose clique (is) in again" / "who is clicking again"

The clicks as in people clicking on his videos. He didn't do it for the clicks.
Is he also saying he didn't do it for the clique? As in the reactor community / Avengers? Because that's what I thought it was about. That's what he said it was about. He says in the intro, "Why did you have to go after reactors?"

There are other cliques as well, though. YouTuber drama. Gotta love it. Probs not fun being part of it, but can be quite entertaining from an outsider's perspective.

I know some of the "bitch rappers", but I'm not naming them, that's what they want. They try to use Knox's platform to get views.
Those people who are nice to you and then you're nice back to them, only for them to demand favors because "I thought we were friends". So fuckin fake. Thank god I'm not famous and don't have to deal with that shit.

Fake smiles for the cameras
Wanna see me cancelled?
Tell me what I "can"
While I hold another can of Bud Light
My "buzz" right

Misspelling #4, "cancelled". I misspelled the same word writing this post, before spellchecking myself :D

Hmm. He didn't say he didn't do it for the clicks. And now he's saying "fake smiles for the cameras" - who is fake smiling at the camera? Another person or Knox?
Could be either way - he already talked about earlier how those people are fake and only care about their status, but also, even good people have bad days sometimes, and have to do things for work that they don't necessarily enjoy. Smile for the camera, or smile for the customer, no matter what your day or life is like at the moment.

Can, like be able to do something, or can like a can of beer, or Bud Light.

Buzz Lightyear, the Toy Story character.

Buzz like having a buzz around you, people starting to pay attention to you and curious about where your career could be going.

But also buzz, like being tipsy, when you've had some alcohol but aren't drunk yet.

Even tho life's traumas wanna keep me up nights
Tryna "tackle" death callin "audibles" of life

Death, life (opposites)

Googled "audible" and besides the audiobook company, it's also a thing in American football: "If quarterbacks are uncomfortable with the formation the defense is using, they may call an audible change to their play." Source: Quarterback - Wikipedia
Tackling is also a thing that occurs in the same sport.

Put another "spike" in my cup, ready? "Hut, hike!"

If you literally poke spikes in someone's cup, they can't drink from it, all the liquid will leak out.

Could also be a trophy they're (figuratively) poking..? Idk
-- Editing Zinetha: Don't even remember what I was going for with this. Maybe Knox "winning" at something, being very good at it, so he gets "a trophy" and then the other are figuratively poking fun of it, like "pfft, you call THAT an achievement?! lmao"

The double/triple is spiking someone's drink, putting alcohol or drugs in there without them noticing, to get them drunk/high and vulnerable. Always cover your drink with your hand between sips, don't drink from a drink you left unattended and never accept a drink from a stranger if you didn't see the person or the bartender pour the drink.

"Hut, hike!" is also things American footballers yell. Apparently it's some kind of secret coding to other players of their team and has got something to do with the "audible".

Killin my brain like mom's chemo
Fillin every vein in her system

His mom has cancer.
I feel like this is an important bar in this song, because 1) my first impression of the song was that it is in general about topics people find taboo or don't like to talk about and cancer is one of them 2) most of these topics are ones that don't concern him directly, and this does. It's his mom that has cancer. I don't know what his relationship with his mom is like, but he is spending a lot of time at her place, helping her through cemo, so it seems like they're close.
Here's a video of him explaining the situation, 100% of the ad revenue he makes with this video goes to charity, to cancer research, so I encourage you to check it out: Cancer Sucks.. (youtube.com)
Fuck cancer.

These traumas are killing his brain figuratively like his mom's chemo is (hopefully) killing the cancer cells.

We killin this game, tell me how many victims
Of drill, or pills we feel/fill till the names go missing
How many "chains" and the "whips"?

A double.
Knox is killing the game, some other rappers are killing the game = they're good at rapping, and since there's victims, I'd say it's battle rapping and dissing. 
Second meaning is the drill scene. Drill is a subgenre of hiphop and it's closely tied to real life criminal activity. I just recently learned about this connection a couple of months ago, so I'm not the best source. Nor have I really looked that deep into it, since I'm more into trap and chopper than drill. Probably wouldn't even recognize a drill song if I heard one. But as a general rule of thumb to any subject: A Wikipedia article that has listed sources is probably a good starting point. Read the article. If any part of it makes you question if the information is valid or not, or if any part of it makes you want to dig deeper into it, read the source marked in the footnote (the little number at the end of the sentence or paragraph). If you REALLY want to get into a topic, use Google Scholar. It gives you peer-reviewed scientific sources = They follow the rules of science: 3 Vital Rules of Science, In Plain English (forbes.com) and it isn't just one guy writing whatever, but the thing they wrote has been read and supported by at least two of their colleagues. Unlike the article that says vaccines cause autism, these are valid. And surprisingly to me, there are a lot of articles about drill music. I might check out some abstracts or entire studies at some point if I get into the music.

As far as I understand, the drill music is connected to a lot of real-life drug deals and people being killed over drug-related stuff, rap beefs or other issues. 

Chains (bling bling jewelry) and whips (cars) are common themes in mainstream hiphop music, but apparently also in the drill scene? Or the drill scene is the mainstream scene and I just didn't know, because I think mainstream American hiphop sucks? 
This is also a callback to Knox's other Eminem Remix, the Killshot Remix: Eminem "Killshot" Remix | Knox Hill [One Take Video] (youtube.com). Nice tie-in. The "Lyrical Breakdown, Misheard Lyrics" blog post of that song is the first time I tried to break down his bars and it's the most read post of this entire blog. It's still one of my favorite songs by him 🔥
Just listened to it again while writing this and understood a lot more than a year ago when it dropped <3 I'm proud of myself, being able to catch bars a lot better than I could a year ago. ^^ Every genre takes time to learn how it functions, and I also feel like every artist, a new songwriter, takes time from the listener to learn how they operate and how to interpret their songs. The better you know the songwriter, the better your interpretation and breakdowns and such about them are.

All "shifts" for the "clicks"
"Turn up" for the "gains" and the listens
Mold in / Moldin your sense/cents

Shifts like changes or movements, that you do for clicks, to get views for your content.
If you Shift + click something, it allows you to open something in a new window...

Turn up, like show up, appear somewhere.
Turn up, like turning the music up.

Gains, like... gaining money, but what's the other meaning..? Gaining clicks/views/listens?

To mold something to fit a certain shape (figuratively, like, forcing someone to fit into a box they don't fit in, restricting stereotypes and such).
Mold, like fungi. Something is spoiled.

Sense, like common sense, or the five senses.
Cents, like money.

So...
Artists and YouTubers and others do things ("shifts") to gain clicks and money from people turning up to their songs and videos, and the media you consume molds you into the person you are, it affects how you think and act, how you sense things and how your common sense works, leading to you getting stuck with your views until you've wallowed in them so much they "spoil", they stop making sense and are not useful anymore. And with the engagement, you support whatever media you consume, to it ends up making money for the artist/YouTuber and the record labels and other big companies.

We "play" dough / play-doh with children (Keep clickin)
Watch a little girl hold a phone like a crack pipe
Algorithms so addictive, everything has hacked life
We walk around like zombies with a half-life
Droolin as we go through "withdrawals" like a cash line

Dough is a slang word for money. Play-Doh is a company that makes re-moldable putty in different colors that kids can mold things out of.
Kids hold phones like crack pipes, because 1) they're just as addicted to their phones as a crackhead is addicted to crack 2) they literally hold their phones with two hands like some people hold a crackpipe, when they video call someone or send them voice messages.
Algorithms are "hacked" into all of our lives, and every aspect of our lives. Vs. "life hacks".
Half-Life is a video game that has zombies in it.
Withdrawals like the physical and mental symptoms one experiences when they don't get a thing they're addicted to, VS. withdrawals from a bank account.

What was established in the earlier bars affects people of all ages, but kids are especially vulnerable. They don't yet have the mental capacity to tell when someone is trying to influence them or is lying to them, or to look at their own habits and obsessions critically, not the the extent adults do.

Algorithms got us, especially kids, hooked on our phones like they're a drug. All that fast-paced, short form media and constant influx of information makes us 1) addicted to it, because it either gives a fast dopamine rush or leaves us longing for one 2) unable to think anymore because there's so much information bombarding our brains and they don't have the time to shift through it (which of it is useful or not useful, which of it seems accurate and which false, what do we actually think about the topic using our own brain and morals instead of just repeating what we see online, etc). And then we behave like zombies, we act without thinking and just scroll more and more and more.

Shoutout to Zombies in Abercombie! It's a song by Knox and I love it. And these two songs have thematical similarities.

I hate that we have to use apps for EVERYTHING now. You can't live a normal life without having like a million apps and a phone that can run all those apps, and the apps monitor your every move (quite literally) and send you a million push-notifications all the freakin time and some of them cannot be turned off 😒and then all these useless notifications fill your screen and you miss the ones you actually want to see and also get a sensory overload from all the useless information. Sometimes I intentionally do not check my phone once the entire day if I'm only staying at home and it's the weekend (=no one from work has to be able to reach me). Just to get a break from it all and actually focus on things I've been meaning to focus on.
Sometimes I also take days when I don't consume any new media or information, if I feel like my brain has a hard time processing it all and I'm either starting to turn into a scroll-zombie or losing sense of what I actually think about a certain subject. No new music, no new tv episodes or movies, no new books, basically nothing to do with the phone, nothing with ads on it. I listen to music that I already know, on Spotify 'cause I got the Premium and there are no ads, and then I usually write something. A diary entry, a poem, a blog post... Writing has always been a tool for me to process my thoughts and emotions.
Anyway, I digress. Back to the song at hand.

Ay, but I get it
"Supply" - this is business

I don't know if it's a language barrier thing or if there's a meaning I don't get, but... To me, the verb "to supply" and the noun "a supply" are too close to each other to be considered a double. So unless there's another meaning, I don't think this counts.

But yeah, artists, YouTubers, influencers, as well as people working in record labels, Spotify or YouTube, are all selling us something. This is their job, it's business for them. You can't capitalize on art (or anything, for that matter) and be ethical at the same time.

But if you wanna go "live" I could leave em "twitchin"
Know this ain't a "game" when they slide into "whispers"
Shhh

Live, like in real life (IRL) & to leave someone twitching, barely alive.
Twitch is a social media site where gamers and other content creators host lives, where people can watch them play a video game, talk or whatever.
Whispers can mean at least three things: 1) talking in a quiet voice 2) this one stupid mobile game that has very adult themes but is aimed at pre-teens for some reason (it's like a very spicy drama series, but as a game, where the player affects the plot through multiple-choice questions) - I have my gender turned off on my Google settings and the most common ads I get are about male-pattern baldness, penis growth and kids' games 3) there's also another app called Whisper, where people can send in their secrets anonymously.

I don't get what Knox means, though... I've heard of "sliding into DMs", but how does one "slide into whispers"?

What the time is
Where my "ops"

Call of Duty: Black Ops is a video game with zombies in it.

"Ops" can also be slang for an opinion.

I think there's also a third meaning, since the video of this song had a picture of a DOC --> PDF conversion... 

Send 'em to the "Doc's"
No "disrespect"
But ya'll minors
Like ya'll in the dark, are you blind, sir?

Doc's, like the doctor's - like, if you leave someone "twitchin", they need a doctor, but also, Black Ops has several doctors. I'm not into FPS games personally and haven't played Black Ops, so I don't know how significant doctors are in the game... Although, knowing the premise, I'd guess they're pretty fuckin important.

Minors like underage VS. miners, people who work in mines, where it's dark. (+Another misspelling, #5.)
If someone is figuratively in the dark or blind, it means they don't know the truth about something or are not seeing the truth about something.

Here's a "shot", get "bars" when I rhyme words
How you really want that liquor but you "wine" first?

Alcohol scheme: shot, bar, liquor, wine.

Also, Knox is shooting you with his rap bars (=they hit & hurt).
There's a saying in the Finnish language "osui ja upposi". It means about the same as "if the shoe fits..." but it translates directly to "hit and sunk". Like, someone said something and it wasn't even necessarily aimed at that person (even if it was, they didn't say it directly) and then that person gets angry about it because they know/think it's about them. The thing the person said hit the other person and "sunk", got under their skin. I think the saying fits this situation quite nicely.
The people whine, complain about something that really pisses them off and they're so riled up about it it makes them want to get drunk.

Better check that ID first lyin pervs
Ya pants fire

You need to check someone's ID if they're buying alcohol.
With the word "pervs" it pretty clearly also means that people should not do anything sexual with a person whose age they do not know.
--Editing Zinetha here: I saw a quote while reading the articles for this song, where a PR person I think it was, claimed that Epstein got young women to massage him on the regular, but he ID check'ed them before bringing them in. "Sure", you lying perv, I "believe you" (no I fucking do not, fucking hell that man is disgusting).

"Liar liar pants on fire!" is a commonly known kid's rhyme in English-speaking countries.

Lookin like Dan Snyder
Blood suckin vampires

He's an American businessman, based in Maryland. I've never heard of him before, but he seems like a horrible person. Daniel Snyder - Wikipedia

Talkin "flier" like a hang glider

"Fly" in slang means someone is fashionable/stylish/attractice.

A hang glider is that kite-looking thing with a bar that a human being can "fly" with.

"Playin" with them "minors" like you Van Cliburn
Lookin like a white van driver
With them windows tinted by the camp fire (Hi kids!)

Van Cliburn was an American pianist. Piano keys have minor keys and major keys and he's playing them. Cliburn was 32 when he met his partner Thomas Zaremba, 19. Not quite a minor, but... Yikes. I'm 32 now. A 19-year-old is basically a child in my eyes. 
Source: Van Cliburn, Pianist and Cold War Envoy, Dies at 78 - The New York Times (nytimes.com)

The stereotypical child abductor is a middle-aged man who drives a white van with tinted black windows. Luring kids in the van with candy or puppies.
In reality, 75% of abductors are adults the kid knows (relatives or family friends), the most common abductor is their own parent. There's a (morbidly) hilarious South Park episode of this statistic, where the parents send all their kids to live in the wilderness, so they themselves can't abduct them. 😂 Season 6, episode 11, "Child Abduction Is Not Funny".

I think Knox used "campfire" mostly for the rhyme scheme - "van dri-ver -- camp-fi-re", but also, kids go to summer camp, which has camp fires, and he was just talking about a person called Van CliBURN. Burn, fire.
Misspelling #6, "camp fire" vs. "campfire".

You a-holes ain't f*ckin with this
I spat bars for two minutes, did I really say "sh*t"?

Assholes, shit.
I think he said shit. Solid. 🤣

Ya'll know my pen/penn states disgusting

The state of his pen, the quality of his writing.
Vs. The state of Pennsylvania, or the Penn State University.

You Jerry Sandusky's "Can't touch me"
Get dusted
"Bars" leave you rusted

Jerry Sandusky was a college football coach working in Penn State University, who groomed and molested up to 48 underage boys in the course of 15 years (or more, assuming not all of them came forward). Source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jerry_Sandusky 
I see "can't touch me" as a triple:
- first of all, he obviously shouldn't be touching them, so a kid might say "can't touch me"
- second of all, many people who worked with him were aware that something was going on and did nothing, presumably because of the results he made at work (read the Freeh report chapter in the Wikipedia article)
- third of all, he regretted nothing - all he talked about after being caught and sentenced were about his "good memories" with the kids... To quote the article I read: "You can't touch me, he was saying. You can't hurt me after I've lived such a righteous existence. These bars and walls and razor wire are powerless to that." Source: Jerry Sandusky delivers one final hateful, haunting response to his victims - Yahoo Sports

F*ck Hollywood and the stars, I don't trust 'em
That label boss up on Epstein island
All the sh*t you hidin
Tell me how high where you pile it / pilot
Talkin fly better check the mileage

Epstein island aka Little Saint James, U.S. Virgin Islands was an island sex offender Jeffrey Epstein owned before his arrest and passing. He ran a very extensive sex trafficking ring and his island was a significant location relating to that.
Wikipedia lists at least 24 people who were either friends or business partners of him, and out of those 24, at least eight have been accused of sexually charged crimes, (at least) one beats his wife and one is Jeff Bezos (no one who's that rich can be a good person).

I think the person Knox is talking about is Richard Branson, a co-founder of the Virgin Group. They apparently have a very complex business structure - they founded Virgin Records, and despite it being owned by Universal Music Group today, Virgin Group still has some kind of control over it..?
He's a billionaire. He's been convicted of multiple charges of tax evasion. One way he's doing this is by living in the British Virgin Islands. (Essentially as a next door neighbor of Epstein, btw, whose island is a part of the US Virgin Islands.)
Source: Richard Branson - Wikipedia

One woman, Antonia Jenae, has also accused him of sexually assaulting her, so I counted him into the eight people listed on the Jeffrey Epstein Wikipedia page. (I compiled the list of 8 by either having heard of it before or their Wikipedia page mentioning allegations or convictions, so it might be incomplete.) Allegedly, he motorboated her boobs without her consent. Compared to his other alleged crimes (which I'll get to in a minute) this is minor, but also not something a person should just get away with without any consequences. Acting in such a manner gives the impression that he's used to getting away with not asking for consent, of being able to do whatever he wants. Being so out of touch with reality that you feel untouchable.
I know a person who is like this, who is so successful and famous that he can touch women however he wants and that's considered a-okay, because "he just grew up in an environment where this is normal" (both of his parents are theater professionals and so is he). He was in his 60s when I met him, I was in my 20s. He would've learned to be a better man by then if people in his life would have made him take any kind of accountability over his actions.

It wasn't hard to find several articles saying that Jeffrey Epstein had secretly filmed some of the sexual encounters his clients had, and that some of the notable people on these tapes were Bill Clinton, Prince Andrew, Donald Trump and Richard Branson.
Sources: Epstein documents allege sex tapes of Clinton, Prince Andrew and Richard Branson | The Independent, Donald Trump, Bill Clinton, Richard Branson named in newly released Jeffrey Epstein documents - Washington Times, Court documents allege sex tapes taken of Prince Andrew, Bill Clinton and Sir Richard Branson by Jeffrey Epstein | US News | Sky News

There also was a dinner party marked on Epstein's calendar in 2013, where Branson was marked as an attending guest. Epstein had already been convicted then. According to Branson, he did not attend that dinner party, but did still have a relationship with Epstein at the time.
Source: https://www.thedailybeast.com/jeffrey-epstein-emailed-about-dinners-with-woody-allen-chris-rock-and-richard-branson 

Tommy Mottola is another prominent person in the music industry with ties to Jeffrey Epstein (he was mentioned in The Daily Beast article I just mentioned).

Who you cosignin?

Nik Powell was the other founder of Virgin Records, but like... Idk. Through the company he might have been tied to the financial crimes, but that's all I find on him on a quick google search. He died in 2019.

Knox is probably talking about someone else.

I ain't signin sh*t but my layer fees

 Shit, ok...

When ya'll "toy" with me
Better quit the "horsin" you troy to me

 HORSE AROUND Definition & Meaning | Dictionary.com

Trojan Horse - Wikipedia

Better watch who you "duck" you decoys to me
And I'm huntin

Duck, like go down, so something doesn't hit you (?)

In duck hunting and some other kinds of hunting, they use decoys to fool the other animals that it's safe to be somewhere, and that there's food, possible mates, etc, so that the animals go there and then the hunter can shoot them.
Source: My stepdad is a hunter and VERY extroverted, cannot stop talking. He hunts mostly birds, sometimes deer and other animals. "Delicious" is my opinion on it. 

Knox is cosplaying as Chris Hansen.
To Catch a Predator - Wikipedia

That buck stops with this buckshot
Spray all
Chainsaw
Go
Vroom Vroom

Buck, like the animal vs. buck, like money (?)

The Chris Hansen has a chainsaw. 

Him, hmmm
Hers

Binary pronouns, he/him & she/her. 

They, them

And that's me! A nonbinary person. 

I identify as "blade"

And that's Knox..?! 

Without the context of the previous bars, this would just imply he's sharp, metal, cutting-edge, brutal, etc.
The Chris Hansen is a chainsaw.

But with the context, there's a connotation to this joke the right wing continues to make, "I identify as an attack helicopter". It's meant to invalidate nonbinary people's experiences. As if identifying with a human gender is comparable to claiming you're an inanimate object... Yes, they genuinely think they're being funny and that they have a valid point.
Up there with "How dare you assume my gender?!?!?!!11". Said no trans person ever.

And, like, what do you even say to that? Congratulations on finding your true self? Does the human body you're trapped in feel wrong to you? Does this mean your pronouns are now cop/ter? Are you happy with your current name or should I call you with some other name of your choosing?
You know. No, I do not believe you're actually an inanimate object, but that doesn't mean I won't respect you or your identity. Wtf, srsly...
I guess if one's gender is blade, then the neopronouns would be bla/de?

I gave in
To/two words:
Rain curses

To rain curses on someone, idk??

Like a feminist with a K in a room full of straight men
(You're cancelled)
A men

Well, that IS way too many people in one room!
If I do it I have "aN aGeNdA", but if the feminist happens to be a man himself, then he's just "a mass murderer"! So unfair!
Jk, jk.

Yes, I'm a feminist, I think songs like "Dead Men Don't Rape" by Delilah Bon, "Men Are Trash (Wah Wah)" by Banshee and "Daisy" by Ashnikko are good songs.
I also think "Kim" by Eminem, "Get Go" by Ian Taylor and "That's All" by sKitz Kraven are good songs. Seeing the artistic value in them and liking them doesn't make me an anti-feminist or a misogynist. Just like liking artists like Delilah Bon and Banshee whose respective catalogues each consist of ~95% of songs about feminism and how much men suck doesn't make me a misandrist.
You know why? Because I am not and none of these people are actually misandrists or misogynists. None of them actually would pick up a K in a room full of people of the opposite gender and commit mass murder. If you ever catch me saying "separate the art from the artist", this is what I mean. Your art can be whatever, that doesn't directly hurt anyone (=isn't banging a sack of cats against a wall for example - there was allegedly a guy who did this), as long as I can be somewhat certain you're a good person IRL. That's what matters to me.
Whether or not a song is good when it comes to hating a group of people, a collective, like men, depends on if the artist actually has something to say. Spotify has pitched me songs that audibly sound like Ashnikko, but whose lyrical matter is just "men fucking suck" without any provided reason as to why they suck. Fuck those people. Men don't suck just because men suck. You have to have a reason to write a song like that, other than misandry. A genuine moment in your life when a man has acted in a very stereotypical "man" way or multiple men have done the same thing to you and that pisses you off. Then it feels like "I needed to get this out! Fuck! For real tho, men are ok."
I'm white, the dominant "race" in my country and I would feel the same about a black person writing a song about why white people suck. Tell me why we suck and I will listen to you. I promise. And I will do my best to not be "one of those white people" you're talking about. I will never truly understand your experience, but I will do the absolute fucking hardest I can to do so.

Here's a fun statistic:
Number of male mass shooters in the US, 1982-2023: 143
Number of female mass shooters in the US, 1982-2023: 4
Source: Mass shootings in the U.S.: shooters by gender 2023 | Statista
Ps. A mass shooting is one where at least four victims are injured or killed. Trump was recently one of the victims in one of these mass shootings. It was not an attempted assasination, it was a mass shooting and he happened to be there. Source is just a Tiktok video I saw, though, so look more into it if you're interested. I'm not, Trump can suck my non-existent balls (Ashnikko reference).
Speaking of Trump and Ashnikko, here's her take on "grab them by the pussy" (an unreleased song): Please Don’t Grab My Pussy - Ashnikko [Lyrics] (youtube.com)

The most extreme "feminists" I've encountered online are definitely misandrists. They hate men, just for being men. No reasons for the hate needed, solely based on them being cis men. That being said, 0% of them have seriously talked about killing all of them. The most extreme ones I've seen have i.e. tried to justify their domestic abuse with them being women and their partner being a man, and the partners have been brainwashed to agree with this. Another approach is that they want to start societies that do not allow men into them at all. It's just women, co-existing among themselves. I don't have a problem with the latter one, as long as it doesn't turn into a cult or gang who will attack men or people who think of men as equals (like me). I will stand with men if that day comes. I also hope the abused men get out of those relationships and the women face legal consequences for their actions.
Cannot tell you how many men and groups of men I've encountered that do want all women dead. And how many real-life examples we have of men committing gender-based violence against women vs. women committing gender-based violence against men.
Neither is acceptable. I'm a feminist = I am for equality between people of all sexes and genders.

Also, a Karen. A "feminist" with a K. They attack everyone, though, they're not feminists. They're just assholes, they don't have political views apart from them always being the one who's right and everyone else being the oppressor. If they claim it's feminism or ageism or whatever, that's just an excuse. If all political parties and genders could just collectively despise Karens, maybe they wouldn't fight against each other as much.

I'm "happy" like I'm Marvin "gay"
A great father

In the original Houdini Eminem had the bars "Sometimes I wonder what the old me'd say / If he could see the way shit is today / He'd probably say that everything is gay (Like happy!) / What's my name, what's my name?"

Anyway, "gay" means a homosexual, but it used to mean "happy" decades ago, and Marvin Gaye was an artist (he died in 1984). 

Marvin Gaye had a horrible father and he himself had three children with two different teenagers, one of which he molested when he was still married to a woman of age and another one when he was separated from her. I don't know how he was as a father to the kids, but he doesn't seem like that great of a man.
Source: Personal life of Marvin Gaye - Wikipedia

Knox seems like a better blarent than Marvin's dad, but what do I know?

Tamayo Perry - thumbs up as I'm surfin the water
Of this cancel culture
With these sharks in the darkness
I do it for my daughters

Tamayo Perry was a professional surfer, he doesn't have any controversies that I can find with a simple google search and he died about a month ago, eaten by a shark.

Wait, so did Knox JUST write this song and released it now? Or is this a coincidence? Bla acted fast if he just died June 23rd and bla released this song July 9th! That's under 2,5 weeks!

Knox has two daughters, twins. They're around 5-6yo now, I think.

But they say that I'm heartless?
(You're a monster)

Nah, you're just a blade. Heartless, yes, but not a monster. Just a little rough around the edges. 🤣

Whoah
Hold up hold up hold up
Have some cents/sense
I gave my "views" and they gave me clicks
You can hate but you engage with it
You can rage but pay me for the "rent"
Thanks for the spins/spends

Yup. If you watch something, if you engage with it (with a like/dislike, with a comment, by making your own commentary video or blog post about it) you boost it. I.e. if a YouTuber monetizes a video and you hate-watch it, you're engaging with it and the YouTuber gets money for it.
That why, if I truly hate someone (who's still alive), I do not i.e. listen to their songs just to see what kinda BS they're up to now, because I don't want to give them the view and the money for me hating on them. Diss tracks about them, videos bashing them? Sure. That I can support. Sure, it probably affects some kinda algorithm somewhere that "hey, people are interested in this!" but if the videos they are recommended are saying how much that person sucks and why they suck, I think it's fine?
I don't fully know how this works, I'm just doing my best as a consumer.

Smallpox blankets - I'm "thankful" again
Ya'll pigs just "act" I "play" with the "pen"

Did Colonists Give Infected Blankets to Native Americans as Biological Warfare? | HISTORY
+ Thanksgiving, Knox has used this kinda bar before, in the song Corny White Rapper.

Pigs, like the police, or any horrible people.
Act, play.
Playpen, one of those soft gated things you put kids in so they won't wander around and hurt themselves.

It's all "kosher" baby - I'm bakin/bacon again

Baking can mean 1) making pastries 2) using drugs, being high 3) a makeup technique, where you put concealer and loose powder under your eyes and let it simmer for several minutes before blending it, was popular in the early 2010s.
I think Knox is on drugs. Bla doesn't seem like the houseblade type, and I've never seen de wearing makeup. And as established before, bla has a ball in des pants - apparently it's kosher.
Urban Dictionary: Kosher Cock

Kosher in general is a certain set of rules the Jewish people follow in their diet, and it's based on the dietary rules of the Old Testament (or Tanakh, as they call it). Back in those days, the rules were based on what kinds of food could be preserved back then, when refrigerators and freezers weren't a thing yet, and which would spoil quickly. The rules were based on people's observed evidence of sanitation and food poisonings.
(I studied parish youth work of the Lutheran church in university and this is what one of our theology teachers taught us. He's my source.)

Bacon is pork and pork is not kosher, although, there is "kosher bacon".
Probably just as suspicious as the "vegan ribs" Lidl sells, and I wouldn't buy them 🤣
Vemondo Vegaaniset BBQ-ribsit - Lidl Suomi
Lidl Germany Introduces New Vemondo Products Including Vegan Ribs - vegconomist - the vegan business magazine
The ribs are made of pea-based protein, but like... 1) if I were vegan because of ethical reasons, why would I want something that emulates and looks like meat? 2) because I'm not vegan, why would I want something that looks like ribs but isn't? ribs are fuckin delicious! 3) If it has "ribs", what the heck are they made of??

Houdini... it's a wrap/rap
I'm a rabid b-rabbit
Pull me out these hi-hats

Harry Houdini is a magician and the original song (Houdini by Eminem) is named after him. He often wore straitjackets in his magic tricks, so he's a "wrap".
But Houdini is a rap song, by Eminem.

Rabid is 1) a person who is an extreme or fanatic supporter of something 2) someone who has rabies.
Rabbits rarely have the rabies, though.
I think bla is saying bla's rare.

B-Rabbit is Eminem's character on 8 Mile, a movie which is loosely based on his life. Great movie! RIP Brittany Murphy, I loved her work.

Some magicians (not Houdini) pull rabbits out of tophats.

Hi-hats are a certain kind of drum in a drum kit (the small metal "plates" that klang together when you step on the pedal).

Quit "sleepin" man f*ck the "applause"
This the part where you "clap"

I don't get the implied "sleepin" double... 

Knox often has YouTube premieres for his songs, as artists tend to do these days, and on those premiers, people typically chat before the song starts if they're there early, then with the artist if they show up (if they can get a word in, it can get quite crowded if it's someone as popular as Ren or Ashnikko for example), and then in the end they either spam the clapping emoji or the fire emoji in the chat to indicate they liked the song.

So, Knox is also making fun of us, des fans. Sure, I get it, it's in the nature of the song or whatever, but this is still the bar that sort of "got to me" the most. I am on des premieres for de and de only, I have no other reason to listen to the song as soon as it drops. If bla doesn't appreciate me being there for de, then why should I? There is one other fan who quite often attends des premieres, and I sometimes go just to see her. But she doesn't attend all of them.
I wish Ian Taylor would drop his new song already, his fanbase got so tight-nit in 2023 that he should have used that to his advantage, but he didn't. Instead he hasn't dropped a song in almost a year now. I do have fond memories with the other fans, but they're starting to fade.

Don't "test" him
F*ck another rapper don't test him
I'm done with these "wrappers" don't "test" him
I'm raw, goin hard
Don't test him
(Did I just make an STD bar at the end? Ah, fuck it.)

You did make and STD bar at the end. Idk and idc who he is, but if you fuck him or your wife or anyone, please wear a condom if you suspect you got something. And him getting tested is always a good idea, even if he feels alright.
Urban Dictionary: testing

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A summary

Bla does recognize in the beginning that bla's part of the people getting paid to phrase things a certain way. Although, YouTube ad revenue ain't that big of an income.

I wrote down the lyrics from the lyric video when the song dropped and missed the adlib "Keep clickin" (I added it in just now). Reminds me of the feature on social media, where you can spam click the hearts or whatever, and that'll make more people get that live recommended to them or shown it on their feeds when they scroll  YT Shorts/Tiktoks/whatever.

The misspellings. I think they're deliberate, because they annoy some people, they annoy grammar nazies. I'm usually a grammar nazi - I love languages and spelling and rules (and knowing how to bend them to my will) and categorization and... lets just say, being a librarian is a calling to me.

Otherwise, I don't have that much to add. As a summary, I'd say it's an anti-pedophile song. Calling out so many of them and mentioning "They not like us" in the video @2:07 (the recent Kendrick Lamar hit song, dissing Drake for being a pedo).
It's also sort of stretching that narrative into influencing minors as in grooming, but also in other ways.