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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 second track, Where This Flower Blooms.

There we heard Tyler establish himself as the album's protagonist by revisiting his childhood roots in poverty.

He then flashed forwards to when he first found success, likening his growth from the bottom

to a tree or flower blossoming from dirt.

Having established himself as a kind of rag to

riches story where this flower blooms ends with a cliffhanger of sorts.

Let's go.

Flower boy tea nigger that's me rooted from the bottom blooming to a tree.

Took a little while, nigger making leaves, keep it in my branches family,

eke a e favorite color green, energy is scrawn.

Giving niggas life, Verde and the bees, dropping them seeds, not what you want.

You don't know what I keep in the trunk.

Oh shit.

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