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Yahawashi Breakdown
Yahawashi Breakdown
Before his enlightenment, Batta tried to find God but God wasn’t responding
If you want to refresh your perspective, try ingesting some Ayahuasca (Ayahuasca is a
psychedelic).
Also, a cool play on the expression/idiom eye wash/wash your eyes which means to deceive
Agua = water
Caapi vine = the plant that Ayahuasca, the psychedelic, comes from
Duat = the “Hell’’ of the Egyptian religion, where all the dead people went after dying
1. Dying physically
2. Ego Death, which usually happens when being high on Ayahuasca (Ego Death is a
psychological condition where you are fully awake and functional, yet cannot
remember any information about yourself, even your name or your gender.)
Also, a contradiction cause at the start of the verse he said that he was high and Duat/Hell is
also known as the underworld.
Psychotropics = A drug or other substance (plant/Ayahuasca in this case) that affects how
the brain works and causes changes in mood, awareness (ties back to the Ego Death layer),
thoughts, feelings, or behavior.
Tonic = a medicinal substance taken to give a feeling of vigour or well-being (aka Ayahuasca)
Batta tells you that if you wanna try Ayahuasca be prepared for what’s about to happen,
cause it’s going to be strong
This ties back to the first lines of the track where he said that he is God.
The particular scene in which Willi Wonka is riding that boat/yacht has been described as
psychedelic a lot of times before.
Nirvana = a transcendent state in which there is neither suffering, desire, nor sense of self,
and the subject is released from the effects of karma and the cycle of death and rebirth (ties
back to the Ego Death thing). It represents the final goal of Buddhism.
Shaman = a person regarded as having access to, and influence in, the world of good and evil
spirits, especially among some peoples of northern Asia and North America. Typically, such
people enter a trance state during a ritual, and practice divination and healing.
A nightmare to a person that hasn’t taken Ayahuasca is like the nirvana state for Shamans
By “demonic, diabolic binds” he most likely means “Hell” (Ties back to the Duat line)
So because Ayahuasca/Ego Death doesn’t kill you physically you don’t go to Hell.
Buddha = Siddhartha Gautama, most commonly referred to as the Buddha, was a South
Asian renunciate who founded Buddhism.
Ganja = Cannabis
Shrine = 1. a place regarded as holy because of its associations with a divinity or a sacred
person or relic, marked by a building or other construction
By referencing the oldest school of Buddhism, namedropping Buddha himself and the word
Maharishi he is continuing the religion/spiritual theme of the track.
The overall meaning of this line is just that he's got a shrine full of weed or a shrine
dedicated to weed (“ganja shrine”).
Here he is saying that he has a strong strain of weed with crystals in the soil, which is a
reference to trichomes which are white crystals that appear on weed buds which contain
THC.
1. Reference to weed, “crystals” = trichomes, “in the soil” = weed comes from a plant >
plants grow in the soil
2. Reference to DMT, “crystals” = DMT comes in the form of crystals, “in the soil” =
DMT comes from a plant > plants grow in the soil
Also a reference to Ayahuasca which ties into the Ayahuasca layers of the starting lines:
Ayahuasca is made from the same plant as DMT
Exotic hydroponic plants are plants such as ginger, lemongrass, lime leaf etc.
Also, a use of juxtaposition (“Sour chocolate”) cause chocolate has a sweet taste.
The word “flowers” is an allusion to all the layers in the previous “crystals in the soil”
entendre:
After cutting down marijuana plants at harvest, a proper dry (“flowers dry”) is crucial for
buds for a multitude of reasons.
The overall meaning of this line is basically: Whatever plant he doesn’t have have available
to sell arrives to him when they are ready and have dried.
“Keep us in a garden where seeds don’t ever blossom
Cause the bees that give them pollen just forgot to fly”
Here he is basically just saying that the bees that give pollen to the flowers (the plants that
cannabis, DMT and Ayahuasca come from) forgot to fly (cause they got high after being
exposed to these plants) and that resulted in the seeds not blossoming cause flowers need
pollen to blossom.
Chakra is an Indian Sanskrit word meaning wheel or disk that literally translates to the idea
of a spinning energetic wheel in seven distinct areas of our spine where our prana, chi or life
force flows up and down.
He’s basically saying that when meditating or being high on DMT/Ayahuasca/cannabis our
Chakra rises from the bottom of our spine to the top which ties back to the “high” double
entendre in the first lines.
Also continuing the pollen/plant theme of the previous lines, this line is a double entendre:
1. Got a spine/got as pine is a homonym, pines are trees that contain a lot of pollen in
them
2. A lot of people are allergic to pines and pollen in general and the most common
reaction of the body when it is exposed to pollen is sneezing.
Sneezing is associated with the Heart Chakra, which governs sensitivity and feelings
Also the bottom/lowest Chakra is literally called the Root Chakra (look at the picture) which
ties back to that whole tree/pollen/pine/plant scheme.
So basically: Chakra rise from the sacrum [Root Chakra located at the sacrum (tree root)
/Sneezing (Heart Chakra)] if you got a spine (got as pine).
Also, the word “sacrum” is a shortening of the Latin name “os sacrum” that means “sacred
bone”, “sacre” ties back to the whole religious/spiritual layer of the track.
(I am thinking that this line might be deeper since sneezing is also associated with the throat
which might allude to the Throat Chakra but I don’t know)
“33 vertebrae are levels that you gotta climb”
Batta continues the whole Chakra/spine association by saying that you gotta climb to the top
Chakra which is at the top of the spine.
Also a reference to the 33 degrees of the Scottish Rite and how you have to climb those ranks
to get higher in the organization, he also references the Masonics in the line after the next
one so it’s a for sure reference.
Prana is a term used in yogic (meditation) teachings as a general reference to the manifest
energy of the entire universe.
“I’m Muhammad when personified” basically just means that he is god which ties back to the
use of the word Prana (Manifest the energy of the entire universe)
He is saying that he was assigned a name that the word “god” implies, that basically just him
comparing himself to god again and saying that is he all-knowing, all-powerful etc.
Words cannot interpret that word [his name (that the word “god” implies)] cause words only
make sense cause the have definitions.
So, if he isn’t defined then words can’t describe him and his name (Him = 1. Cambatta 2.
God)
This also ties back to him saying that he is god in the first lines using that “high” entendre.