Bladee lyrics are like impressionist paintings. It blows my mind how he is able to loosely string together disparate imagery and create a world that the listener can dwell in. He is a master of Symbols
There's a movement in painting and poetry called Symbolism. Was active late 19th century France. Suits bladee's lyrics even more than impressionism; bladee himself posted a Symbolist painting before - St. George and the Dragon by Gustav Moreau. The Symbolist painter you should check out though is Odilon Redon, most bladeesque.
@@pretty-white-lamb wow you're onto a creative thread here. Redon is definitely resonating. Identifiable subjects warped in a way where describing them reveals a surprisingly poetic description
Another thing to add is a story about King David and the Spider. A VERY abbreviated version of this story, David virtually asked Hashem (God in this story, HaShem meaning "The Name") why he created spiders, citing them as "such ugly and useless creatures". HaShem told David ‘be patient, a day will come when you will want to kiss one’. Later in the story, David had hid in a cave from King Saul, who wanted to kill him. As King Saul's men were nearing his cave, Hashem sent a spider. It spun a giant web over the entrance. When King Saul saw the unbroken web, he assumed no one had entered the cave and moved on. When David realised this, he found the spider and gave it a grateful kiss! In this story, God was essentially teaching David that although it may not be obvious why each creature was created; everything that exists has a purpose. This is probably why Bladee named the album, especially since you were drawing connectiions to the idea of protection and Bladee's search for purpose ! Sry this was long lol
I would also like to point out the "What happens happened, just gotta live with that pain" lyric from BLUE CRUSH ANGEL. I think it ties in nicely with the concept of "everything that exists has a purpose."
100% you should make more vids like this, drain philosopher. I’ve been interested in the lyrics for “Nothingg”, especially the part where Bladee says “solid star, tell me where you are.” He mentions that same idea of being solid in the lyrics for Icarus 3reestyle. Maybe has something to do with bringing the abstract concept of perfection into reality (making it solid)? I’m also interested in the spider symbolism. Much like Bladee, spiders can be seen as misunderstood artists (intricate web weaving) that may come off as unpleasant initially but are actually quite helpful and necessary for maintaining balance in the ecosystem. Spiders also tend to be solitary like Bladee. There’s just so many layers to this…
More connections: - Spiders have 8 legs, ties into idea of infinity with 8 being the same shape as the symbol infinite. Links up with the Jewish concept Ein Sof “Endless One” motif in lyrics. The album Good Luck has 8 letters in the title and has 8 tracks, connection? - The 8th track on the album (HAHAH) is a palindrome, much like the symbols for 8/infinite. Curiously enough (and possibly unintentional), the amount of songs is a palindrome with the length in minutes for the album (13 songs, 31 minutes) - Released September 30th, the last day of the 9th month. 9/30 can be seen as the sequence 9 -> 3 -> 0, ties into one of the album’s motifs of destruction/the ending of something (from Nothingg: “I can turn something into nothing at all.”) For drainers, 9 is seen as a very holy/transcendent number, like the top/crest of a mountain (Crest album has 9 tracks, seen as Bladee’s most blissful + heavenly record yet). Going from 9 to 3 (also important drain #) to 0 implies coming down from that heavenly “crest” into a possibly more profane state of mind/being…”nothing”.
The two triangles that form the star (consciousness) also stand for this . The triangle that points up in the ancient world was known as the blade and it represent the masculine(intelect , action,heart) .The triangle that points down in the ancient world symbolized the chalice and it represented the feminine (creativity , intuition,mind). In order to be a balanced individual u need both of these (to be balanced) thus the two triangles coming together creating the star .
I was literally just about to bring up the Blade & Chalice, it’s an incredibly old symbol that’s been around for so long & is so influential in a lot of designs & symbols
Literally the best figure online for talking about drain gang stuff. Super interesting video, and Spiderr is such a good album too. Very curious to see what the next Bladee project is like, as this feels like a new phase of that spiritual exploration that he really leaned into starting with Exeter.
I feel it could be an idea he has stuck with, selfless themes in his songs, “nail me to the cross.” The fact he’s stayed true to his fans and his art, “coulda been a lot of stuff but it just wasn’t us.” Seems like a charitable dude, also made me think of yeses where ecco says “drop everything off at the red cross” letting go of finite attachments
On botox lips he has the line "I am not a dreamer, I could be your teacher" and that prompted me to start doing tai chi in the mirror when listening to bladee and because it looked awkward I taught myself some more moves and eventually realized that I could now move and dance like Bladee. I've added more of my own moves since and now I make an effort to try get my other nerdy friends to dance with me when I play music because I feel like it's now my duty to teach.
great video ! aside from the spirituality stuff, i thought that the name 'spiderr' was supposed to be a metaphor for bladee now being at centrepoint of his career (the spider being bladee and his career being the web he has spun). this album is heavily self referential and self aware, to a greater extent than bladee's previous works, so the name spiderr works because it acknowledges how the album is enmeshed within its context. for example, the album repeatedly quotes old lyrics ('dreaming in a dream into dust', 'glue sure do get sticky', 'Cinderella only for one night' etc etc) and throughout, bladee seems to have a greater awareness about his fame/his journey thus far as a whole. this idea is maybe most true on drain story which literally says 'this drain story is about to reach my favourite part' and presented as a centripital video. i thought of it as a visual representation of bladee approaching the ‘eye of the storm’ of his career before the inevitable 'fall' he continually references. im prob just saying obvious shit and theres loads more to get into with the lyrics but idk, maybe other people were thinking this?
there could be multiple meanings who knows, like i can kinda see what you are talking about. although i believe he isnt really at the center of his career to me.
I just want to point something out about the Qabalah. It is a very interesting topic. What is really the driving force behind that interest is that it is not found in books. Qabalah is a direct form of divine revelation. To really engage in Qabalah you have to do it as an action. Some of that is bound up in the Hebrew language, but it's in all languages as well. One example from this video would be Ain or Ayn. It means something akin to "nothing" or "void". There is thought to be something called the Ayn Sof Aur or the Limitless Light beyond the Sephirot. Think something akin to space. That's one example of how words are used to that affect. I hope that helps a little. I've been into this for a while.
I'm not sure about how deep Bladee has gone into jewish kabbalism so take this with a grain of salt. But actually the "doing it for the Ain" probably shouldn't be mixed up with the Ain Soph which kinda are two different stages. If he just means the Ain/Ein, he's kinda saying that he's doing it for the Nothingness, which I think would have some interesting nihilistic connotations as well
This video is a really good way to step into the just endless Amounts of Kabbalistic teachings and Occult thoughts. He brings up Alastair Crowley religion’s thelema saying “To be the law, you must break the law” “let’s just love always love, and it’s the law” Alastair Crowley taught “love under will” “do what thou wilt” and that everyone is their own star and follows their own Will. (Destiny) through the actions they take. And you could totally go deeper and pick out the tarot references like how he says “I’m a fool for you” a magick practitioner sees themselves as the Fool card in tarot. The fool is taking a journey through the deck. Through the 4 words. And every tarot suite (cups wands swords and pentagrams ) represents their own tree of life (the Sefirot diagram) each with their own meaning. The tree being made up of 3 Trinitys. You could pick this album apart for days and just loose yourself in a rabbit whole. And you can do it for pretty much all his music lol I love it. He’s a magickian for sure
although drain story was originally a single but is on the spiderr album, the video is shot basically orbiting him, which references his “godliness”. the title it self kinda references his journey and some of the lyrics say “give you something to believe in” which i think can be related to this whole video of seeing reality in fiction and the spirituality of bladee
haven't watched yet but i hope this touches on Spider Robinson, bladee put his name as a hashtag on his IG post when the album came out and I've been wondering why the albums named after him I haven't even seen anyone on the subreddit talking about that guy
I think when bladee talks about himself or “me”, he doesn’t mean the egoic identity of bladee or even benjamin, it seems more like a reference to the Higher Self or the Witness or Brahman or whatever else you call the one universal consciousness that animates all beings. I think this is what the Ein Sof points to as well if I understand correctly
Love the way that you explained Ein Sof, the way that I like to think of it is that Hashem (God) is the Jewish interpretation, manifestation or understanding of Ein Sof. The amount of deep and intricate Jewish ideas that you managed to touch on extremely accurately is truly amazing keep doing what you're doing.
I was already very interested in the spiderr albums sympolism, and have done my own research on kabbalah and ain so this was really intresting to watch. I would definetly watch more if u made some going deeper into subjects.
Points of interest I would like to add: 1. There is a system which is popular in Jewish culture called Gematria which assignes a value to letter(A=1,B=2,C=3, etc..) some of the lyrics might have the same value when each letter in a word is summed up(for example: there is a famous expression in Hebrew that says "When wine enters, a secret comes out". The Hebrew word for "wine" has the same value as the Hebrew for "secret" which is 70). 2. In the old testament, there's the idea that the Israelites are to act as mentors for spiritual and moral guidance for the entire world as suggested by Isaiah 42:6(I the LORD have called unto you in righteousness, and have taken hold of your hand, and submitted you as the people's covenant, as a light unto the nations). Perhaps there are connection between some of the lyrics and this idea.
there's three three's within the star of david for example. 3 in each triangle representatively. it's also worth noting the alchemical symbol for Air is an upwards pointing triangle and Water is a downwards one. Air and Water being something Bladee refences a lot
incredible vid, very fun. edit: i understand there's a lot of philosophical references in his work. i felt like it was almost just as much a breakup album. "The very thought of how you operate, I'm filled up with disgust," and, "Baby, you could kill me with a touch, flying too close to the sun," appear to be about an ex to me; that, and the dante's beatrice stuff...
i think the main point of spirituality everyone misses is that it’s eternally breathing in everyone’s life. taking things like breakups or whatever is personally important to you seriously is a master of spirituality on its own
@@NYYYank1 i like that idea. similar to that, i do think it's all supposed to be like a "choose your own adventure" mentality mixed with some righteous principles (we are both worthless and powerful, we should strive to be "perfect" but will never reach it, etc.). it is probably way less meta and layered than people think it is, but still has plenty to read from it.
bladee so ‘woke’ he talks about white light over him and dreaming in a dream which is truth because we are living in a virtual dream, kinda like vr but more in a material sense, hello :] definitely a light worker and love the spider archetype too, I have always seen it as many people can be scared of the spider, but the spider will always be more scared of others, just my perspective
I’m only six minutes into the video and I don’t know if you know this yet but if you look at the spider it kind of looks like a universe or a galaxy and underneath a spider is eggs I think it’s trying to reference blade and he’s going to spawn match new types of music and musicians.
As a Christian, the comparison Bladee makes between him and kind of a Messianic figure or at least a holy figure bothers me a bit, but I overall appreciate his search for truth and perfection and just the overall desire to become a better person - the contradictions he makes between being nothing special but also comparing himself to a holy figure to me is a reminder that he is human and really isn’t special but recognizes the beauty in putting pride to the side and trying to become the best person he can be - just a bit of my perspective as a Christian and an avid Bladee/Drain Gang fan - I feel that Bladee is getting closure to the core of his beliefs but the contradictions show he hasn’t reached the perfection he wants and is still on his spiritual journey - also perfection is just an illusion on this Earth like he said so maybe he recognizes this and just wants to throw in some flex bars for fun 😂
@@1d2y it reminds me of the taiping civil war where Hong xiuquan, Heavenly King of the Taiping Kingdom, had visions of an elderly brother figure slaying demons, this figure who he identified as Christ
Bladee: "Im crazy im crazy im crazy"
Matt: "Spiritual guide"
Bladee tries DMT
@King Woosh yea he is literally mystically fabricating this mf music from his mind bruh
his music is my spiritual awakener
Me and the boys discussing the geopolitical implications of bladee dropping
😂
Gattsu literally
Bladee lyrics are like impressionist paintings. It blows my mind how he is able to loosely string together disparate imagery and create a world that the listener can dwell in. He is a master of Symbols
this^^
There's a movement in painting and poetry called Symbolism. Was active late 19th century France. Suits bladee's lyrics even more than impressionism; bladee himself posted a Symbolist painting before - St. George and the Dragon by Gustav Moreau.
The Symbolist painter you should check out though is Odilon Redon, most bladeesque.
@@pretty-white-lamb wow you're onto a creative thread here. Redon is definitely resonating. Identifiable subjects warped in a way where describing them reveals a surprisingly poetic description
@@Alfred_English I read somewhere that bladee likes the Swedish painter Hilma af Klint, if you want to check her out as well.
Another thing to add is a story about King David and the Spider. A VERY abbreviated version of this story, David virtually asked Hashem (God in this story, HaShem meaning "The Name") why he created spiders, citing them as "such ugly and useless creatures". HaShem told David ‘be patient, a day will come when you will want to kiss one’. Later in the story, David had hid in a cave from King Saul, who wanted to kill him. As King Saul's men were nearing his cave, Hashem sent a spider. It spun a giant web over the entrance. When King Saul saw the unbroken web, he assumed no one had entered the cave and moved on. When David realised this, he found the spider and gave it a grateful kiss!
In this story, God was essentially teaching David that although it may not be obvious why each creature was created; everything that exists has a purpose. This is probably why Bladee named the album, especially since you were drawing connectiions to the idea of protection and Bladee's search for purpose !
Sry this was long lol
Wow. That’s amazing I wish I had included it in the vid. Thanks for the info!!
this is a great supplementary comment after watching the video
That was really interesting I never knew about this story so ugly can be beautiful in a way
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I would also like to point out the "What happens happened, just gotta live with that pain" lyric from BLUE CRUSH ANGEL. I think it ties in nicely with the concept of "everything that exists has a purpose."
Drain high school 🏫
football tryouts
Yeah I’m a scholar
@@asl_iwnl8489 I wish I could play the sport, I hit, I miss..
Get ready for the school photo !¡
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100% you should make more vids like this, drain philosopher.
I’ve been interested in the lyrics for “Nothingg”, especially the part where Bladee says “solid star, tell me where you are.” He mentions that same idea of being solid in the lyrics for Icarus 3reestyle. Maybe has something to do with bringing the abstract concept of perfection into reality (making it solid)?
I’m also interested in the spider symbolism. Much like Bladee, spiders can be seen as misunderstood artists (intricate web weaving) that may come off as unpleasant initially but are actually quite helpful and necessary for maintaining balance in the ecosystem. Spiders also tend to be solitary like Bladee. There’s just so many layers to this…
read a comment on bladee post from wondha mountain that said spiders are said to be a symbol of good luck
Finally A New Lesson by the legendary Drain Scholar.
get your notebooks out drainers
tbh I never cared about the schooling, I only enrolled for the drain highschool football team
I do food reviews while I’m high on my YouTübe channel
@@comments306 dangg i only got to the tryouts
man has the legendary scholar membership at this point
most coherent drainer. bless you, Matt Lorence
Least Religious Drainer
Love that you look into the lore/worldbuilding bladees got going on. Been fun watching the evolution of the drainverse through the years
just came back from school, but it's time for another lesson! #drainscholar
so real
I feel confident to take my Drain SAT now😇
More connections:
- Spiders have 8 legs, ties into idea of infinity with 8 being the same shape as the symbol infinite. Links up with the Jewish concept Ein Sof “Endless One” motif in lyrics. The album Good Luck has 8 letters in the title and has 8 tracks, connection?
- The 8th track on the album (HAHAH) is a palindrome, much like the symbols for 8/infinite. Curiously enough (and possibly unintentional), the amount of songs is a palindrome with the length in minutes for the album (13 songs, 31 minutes)
- Released September 30th, the last day of the 9th month. 9/30 can be seen as the sequence 9 -> 3 -> 0, ties into one of the album’s motifs of destruction/the ending of something (from Nothingg: “I can turn something into nothing at all.”) For drainers, 9 is seen as a very holy/transcendent number, like the top/crest of a mountain (Crest album has 9 tracks, seen as Bladee’s most blissful + heavenly record yet). Going from 9 to 3 (also important drain #) to 0 implies coming down from that heavenly “crest” into a possibly more profane state of mind/being…”nothing”.
You are so INTP
Damn bro go drink a beer
@@ДенисВоробьев-ж3г what hyperfixation does to a mf
@@TheCleanProphet 2 real
Ein Sof means endless, not endless one (ein lol?) this isn’t Yiddish, it’s Hebrew
Bladee also mentioned in an interview that Bladee is like a stand (from jojo's bizzare adventure lol) so also protecting him? Golem
The two triangles that form the star (consciousness) also stand for this . The triangle that points up in the ancient world was known as the blade and it represent the masculine(intelect , action,heart) .The triangle that points down in the ancient world symbolized the chalice and it represented the feminine (creativity , intuition,mind). In order to be a balanced individual u need both of these (to be balanced) thus the two triangles coming together creating the star .
This wasn’t the interpretation of the Magen David (shield of David) until a little bit later than the “ancient world”
I was literally just about to bring up the Blade & Chalice, it’s an incredibly old symbol that’s been around for so long & is so influential in a lot of designs & symbols
wake me up when matt misses
fr
You about to be sleeping beauty.
@@TheCleanProphet Bladee will awaken you with a kiss 😘
Literally the best figure online for talking about drain gang stuff. Super interesting video, and Spiderr is such a good album too. Very curious to see what the next Bladee project is like, as this feels like a new phase of that spiritual exploration that he really leaned into starting with Exeter.
“I can teach you how to be like me” is a lyric that always resonated
I feel it could be an idea he has stuck with, selfless themes in his songs, “nail me to the cross.” The fact he’s stayed true to his fans and his art, “coulda been a lot of stuff but it just wasn’t us.” Seems like a charitable dude, also made me think of yeses where ecco says “drop everything off at the red cross” letting go of finite attachments
On botox lips he has the line "I am not a dreamer, I could be your teacher" and that prompted me to start doing tai chi in the mirror when listening to bladee and because it looked awkward I taught myself some more moves and eventually realized that I could now move and dance like Bladee. I've added more of my own moves since and now I make an effort to try get my other nerdy friends to dance with me when I play music because I feel like it's now my duty to teach.
I love this video. helping me appreciate the music more thoroughly even on one listen
never stop matt, always top tier
needed this, thank you so much professor lorence
great video ! aside from the spirituality stuff, i thought that the name 'spiderr' was supposed to be a metaphor for bladee now being at centrepoint of his career (the spider being bladee and his career being the web he has spun). this album is heavily self referential and self aware, to a greater extent than bladee's previous works, so the name spiderr works because it acknowledges how the album is enmeshed within its context. for example, the album repeatedly quotes old lyrics ('dreaming in a dream into dust', 'glue sure do get sticky', 'Cinderella only for one night' etc etc) and throughout, bladee seems to have a greater awareness about his fame/his journey thus far as a whole. this idea is maybe most true on drain story which literally says 'this drain story is about to reach my favourite part' and presented as a centripital video. i thought of it as a visual representation of bladee approaching the ‘eye of the storm’ of his career before the inevitable 'fall' he continually references. im prob just saying obvious shit and theres loads more to get into with the lyrics but idk, maybe other people were thinking this?
Bro this is exactly what I thought when I listened
there could be multiple meanings who knows, like i can kinda see what you are talking about. although i believe he isnt really at the center of his career to me.
havent watched yet but i know this boutta be amazing
Very interesting. I've found myself down the bladee rabbit hole on many occasions. This video caught my eye and I'm happy it did. Subscribed.
I just want to point something out about the Qabalah. It is a very interesting topic. What is really the driving force behind that interest is that it is not found in books. Qabalah is a direct form of divine revelation. To really engage in Qabalah you have to do it as an action. Some of that is bound up in the Hebrew language, but it's in all languages as well. One example from this video would be Ain or Ayn. It means something akin to "nothing" or "void". There is thought to be something called the Ayn Sof Aur or the Limitless Light beyond the Sephirot. Think something akin to space. That's one example of how words are used to that affect. I hope that helps a little. I've been into this for a while.
Babe wake up the Drain Scholar super rare drainfo just dropped
my 333 hoodie just arrived tonight
I'm not sure about how deep Bladee has gone into jewish kabbalism so take this with a grain of salt. But actually the "doing it for the Ain" probably shouldn't be mixed up with the Ain Soph which kinda are two different stages. If he just means the Ain/Ein, he's kinda saying that he's doing it for the Nothingness, which I think would have some interesting nihilistic connotations as well
The new album could be for this reason
na i’m just starting the video vro but seeing the title alone was so fulfilling and you seem like a wonderful person. so stoked to find this
This video is a really good way to step into the just endless Amounts of Kabbalistic teachings and Occult thoughts. He brings up Alastair Crowley religion’s thelema saying “To be the law, you must break the law” “let’s just love always love, and it’s the law” Alastair Crowley taught “love under will” “do what thou wilt” and that everyone is their own star and follows their own Will. (Destiny) through the actions they take. And you could totally go deeper and pick out the tarot references like how he says “I’m a fool for you” a magick practitioner sees themselves as the Fool card in tarot. The fool is taking a journey through the deck. Through the 4 words. And every tarot suite (cups wands swords and pentagrams ) represents their own tree of life (the Sefirot diagram) each with their own meaning. The tree being made up of 3 Trinitys. You could pick this album apart for days and just loose yourself in a rabbit whole. And you can do it for pretty much all his music lol I love it. He’s a magickian for sure
omfg how many meanings does this album have!!!
Baby u can kill me with a touch I’m flying too close to sun
i started reading dantes inferno bc of disaster prelude, its very good highly recommend
I love this so much but oh my god that bladee music in the background i cant concentrate whilst my brain is trying to sing along 💀💀
At this point the sound of Matt's voice over the For Nothing or Reality Surf beats has a Pavlovic effect over me 🤣
Great vid as always
bladee is my favorite jewish legend
love u matt
killing it w the nintendo music choices
Your best vid so far❤
to the statues in my head, stand forever
i love the new moon poster
drain jesus ice me immediately
amazing work and research, thank you for this video
Unrelated, u look mighty comfy in this video🎃
although drain story was originally a single but is on the spiderr album, the video is shot basically orbiting him, which references his “godliness”. the title it self kinda references his journey and some of the lyrics say “give you something to believe in” which i think can be related to this whole video of seeing reality in fiction and the spirituality of bladee
haven't watched yet but i hope this touches on Spider Robinson, bladee put his name as a hashtag on his IG post when the album came out and I've been wondering why the albums named after him
I haven't even seen anyone on the subreddit talking about that guy
Oh i wasnt crazy that was there.
Cool. 😮
awesome corbin shirt brah. great vid.
I’m gonna need to rewatch this a couple times
I take this drain very serious but by god I'm very curious
I think when bladee talks about himself or “me”, he doesn’t mean the egoic identity of bladee or even benjamin, it seems more like a reference to the Higher Self or the Witness or Brahman or whatever else you call the one universal consciousness that animates all beings. I think this is what the Ein Sof points to as well if I understand correctly
phenomenal
bladee is my favorite gnostic
I get it now
Drain Jesus
Final y someone else sees bladee is highly spirituAl 333 exeter and the fool are full of universal truths
Love the way that you explained Ein Sof, the way that I like to think of it is that Hashem (God) is the Jewish interpretation, manifestation or understanding of Ein Sof. The amount of deep and intricate Jewish ideas that you managed to touch on extremely accurately is truly amazing keep doing what you're doing.
I was already very interested in the spiderr albums sympolism, and have done my own research on kabbalah and ain so this was really intresting to watch. I would definetly watch more if u made some going deeper into subjects.
Points of interest I would like to add:
1. There is a system which is popular in Jewish culture called Gematria which assignes a value to letter(A=1,B=2,C=3, etc..) some of the lyrics might have the same value when each letter in a word is summed up(for example: there is a famous expression in Hebrew that says "When wine enters, a secret comes out". The Hebrew word for "wine" has the same value as the Hebrew for "secret" which is 70).
2. In the old testament, there's the idea that the Israelites are to act as mentors for spiritual and moral guidance for the entire world as suggested by Isaiah 42:6(I the LORD have called unto you in righteousness, and have taken hold of your hand, and submitted you as the people's covenant, as a light unto the nations). Perhaps there are connection between some of the lyrics and this idea.
brilliant video min, enjoyed watching this late at night with my mcds. Bladee forever
special numbers on the crest i have to hold it up
spiderr makes me keep coming back to the line on don’t worry “adam and eve, me and bladee”
do one on the spirituality of the fool and references to the bill w 12 step program
I’m on the road to being a drain scholar
want a spiritual guide to THE FOOL 🙏✨
I love jacob gellers channel so fucking much such a good guckin channel
beautiful video
I would argue Crest was a lot more explicit with its religious catholic stuff in the lyrics but great video
Shoutout to archangel uriel ! #flight doelow da pilotman
I really enjoyed this! Thanks ! My favorite track is Nothingg
I feel like Hotel Breakfast is the most human and conversational songs, which makes it very special.
are you trying to say normal?
not exactly, it has slight symbolism in there
incredible work, loved the vid
People dismiss the lyrical depth that Bladee indulges in nowadays
hi ariel and lilith if you see this
goated
shout out matt lorence man number one drain scholar in the whole planet man for real
nah but fr this is amazing
amazing video my man
I’m jewish and i didnt realize how jewish this album is, i knew i liked it for a reason. Great video!
nice man i was hoping someone would do a video like this
i see his references to christ as pointing towards gnosticism / the fact jesus was jewish
the three 3's, 333, 6 and 9's. seem to reference to Tesla's 369 theory, numerology and general spiritual references of these numbers
there's also 33 "three threes" as in the the number of bones in the spine, the supposed age jesus died etc. but it's literally endless
there's three three's within the star of david for example. 3 in each triangle representatively. it's also worth noting the alchemical symbol for Air is an upwards pointing triangle and Water is a downwards one. Air and Water being something Bladee refences a lot
A magnificent video once again 🤍
incredible vid, very fun. edit: i understand there's a lot of philosophical references in his work. i felt like it was almost just as much a breakup album. "The very thought of how you operate, I'm filled up with disgust," and, "Baby, you could kill me with a touch, flying too close to the sun," appear to be about an ex to me; that, and the dante's beatrice stuff...
not to mention “Gloria”
i think the main point of spirituality everyone misses is that it’s eternally breathing in everyone’s life. taking things like breakups or whatever is personally important to you seriously is a master of spirituality on its own
@@NYYYank1 i like that idea. similar to that, i do think it's all supposed to be like a "choose your own adventure" mentality mixed with some righteous principles (we are both worthless and powerful, we should strive to be "perfect" but will never reach it, etc.). it is probably way less meta and layered than people think it is, but still has plenty to read from it.
@@triplethraet i feel what youre saying, there is this weird teeter totter dynamic
Hard not to believe he Christian. He’s been making biblically accurate lyrics since 2013
Didn't he make hindu/Buddhists referentes in the fool?
look up Gnosticism
lol so many christians are full of themselves. biblical references do not a "believer" make
@@jesstwocrow1005 let’s not shit on specific religions or make further assumptions
@@Dylan-it5vi i know what that is fool. Bladee is not a gnostic
dante's beatrice is a painting.
shoutout jacob geller, his videos are so good
Bladee
King Nothing, I’m not special
Also I just wanted to point out how ironic it is that he refers to himself as king nothing. Because in proclaiming this it does make him special.
Drain university 👌🏾💯
amazing video !
"I'm the one your god chose"
bladee so ‘woke’ he talks about white light over him and dreaming in a dream which is truth because we are living in a virtual dream, kinda like vr but more in a material sense, hello :] definitely a light worker and love the spider archetype too, I have always seen it as many people can be scared of the spider, but the spider will always be more scared of others, just my perspective
are you trying to say what our brains make up about what we see is dreaming OR that we live in god’s life simulator or something idk at this point.
Fantastic video, very interesting
cool video!
this is that s-tier shit man
golems latkes
I’m only six minutes into the video and I don’t know if you know this yet but if you look at the spider it kind of looks like a universe or a galaxy and underneath a spider is eggs I think it’s trying to reference blade and he’s going to spawn match new types of music and musicians.
Great work!!!!!!
As a Christian, the comparison Bladee makes between him and kind of a Messianic figure or at least a holy figure bothers me a bit, but I overall appreciate his search for truth and perfection and just the overall desire to become a better person - the contradictions he makes between being nothing special but also comparing himself to a holy figure to me is a reminder that he is human and really isn’t special but recognizes the beauty in putting pride to the side and trying to become the best person he can be - just a bit of my perspective as a Christian and an avid Bladee/Drain Gang fan - I feel that Bladee is getting closure to the core of his beliefs but the contradictions show he hasn’t reached the perfection he wants and is still on his spiritual journey - also perfection is just an illusion on this Earth like he said so maybe he recognizes this and just wants to throw in some flex bars for fun 😂
Same bro. The three three holy father son and me is kinda weird. Good song sounds but im confused his beliefs
Bladee is full of the Holy Spirit and it’s rubbing off on me.
there is God running through all of us.
@@1d2y it reminds me of the taiping civil war where Hong xiuquan, Heavenly King of the Taiping Kingdom, had visions of an elderly brother figure slaying demons, this figure who he identified as Christ
@@user-hu8tw2ot3t as children of God within all of us is the potential to become a Jesus-like figure, all it takes is commitment & faith
can you make one on crest please
can you do this w crest lol
His magic is too strong to be understood
its religion not magic…well idk if magic is or isnt done in religion.
Wild, you should research SPIDER GANG.
Mr.Greyy
Drain academy
Dude bladee makes me feel the same fucking way like you’re reaction video