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From Spotify Studios, this is Dissect, long-form musical analysis broken into short digestible

episodes. I'm your host Cole Kushna. Oh, Today we

continue our serialized analysis of Flower Boy by Tyler the Creator.

On our last episode, we dissected the album's ninth track, I ain't got time.

There we heard Tyler's emotional defense mechanism kick into overdrive as he re-entered his sports

car and drove away from the vulnerability and loneliness expressed in both garden shed and boredom.

Indeed, I ain't got time as all bragging bravado and egotism, but by the end of the track,

Tyler's joy-ride escape is suddenly interrupted by a phone call. Hello.

Tyler picks up the phone and immediately the album continues into its next song,

the subject of our episode today, 911, Mr Lonely. 911. 9-1-1-1-1-1-1-1-1-1-1-1-1.

Additional writing credits are given to Frank Ocean and to Raymond Calhoun of the Gap Band for Tyler's

interpolation of the song Outstanding.

Structurally, 911-Mr Mr Lonely is divided into two parts.

This division is implied in the song's title as 911 and Mr Lonely are separated by a slashmark.

Things get interesting when we recognize that

911 Mr Lonely is track 10 on Flower Boy as the 10th track on all of Tyler's past albums have featured

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