Familiar with the song he was referring to I asked if he could explain the song so without question, people will understand "Vincent Van Gogh Coke AD."

He said, "The premise of the song is an artist trades his life for his art. The first verse describes a painting, a man's canvas. "I seen this sleek Graf piece." The first four lines are about a pilot that drops the nuclear bomb on Hiroshima.

"How can the artist catch the perfect and exact beauty of their little faces from 10,000 stacked feet?"

So it's like children playing in the schoolyard and that is like the background of this painting and the nuclear blast will burn your shadow on the wall. But any-who it goes into describing a shotgun blast of an artist laying his head on the canvas. Sacrificing himself for the cause of artistic expression."

Blown away from what he just told me, I felt this whole discussion we had to be entirely dreamlike. I could not believe any of this truthfully happened. I walked over to the nearest light switch and attempted to flick it on and off, but nothing happened. Then, I became conscious I was dreaming. Determined to know more, but quickly floating out of my REM, I shouted as I drifted out the door, "what's the meaning behind all this?"

He calmly said, "The realest emcees have to be able to arm wrestle."

And then I woke up.

- Blake Gillespie