The title of this song, "No Motive" is in reference to acts of violence where the mainstream media will insist that the shooter had "no motive" for their crimes and just randomly flipped out one day going postal: "Just crazy kids on the brink, unavoidable, tragic". The song starts off by announcing its intent to unpack the claim that acts of mass violence happen with no motive. The rapper suggests that mass shooters do actually have a motive, namely that they aren't really "lone wolves" acting on their own, but were manipulated into committing acts of mass violence by a government "asset with an asset", aka the "glowies" that seek them out on the internet. The conspiracy theory here is that the government wants there to be periodic eruptions of mass-violence in order to justify militarizing the police against the citizenry, with the government making sure to deliberately groom unhinged members of the general public into being their "ticking timebombs". The rapper however doesn't discuss this latter part of the conspiracy theory, and mostly focuses on describing how glowies manipulate their targets psychologically.
Blackmail pyramid
Several levels deep
Every asset with an asset
With an asset under feet
Scratch the surface
Take a peek
See what's hiding underneath
Everybody's got a little secret
They would kill to keep
The protagonist of this song is represented as someone stressed out restless, someone needing sleeping pills to sleep but he is so restless, the sleeping pills can't knock him out anymore.
Sleepless night again
Just me in my own head
I did what they all said
But still the pills have no effect
I suspect this part of the rap is pilfered from the movie/book Fight Club, the part there Jack's is suffering from insomnia and his doctor tells him to go
"chew on some Valerian":
What does the protagonist do with his insomnia? He's up all night browsing the internet. The idea of him needing pills to sleep is meant to suggest that this person is already mentally ill with the pills doing nothing to aleviate his mental illness, likely making it worse.
I don't care, yeah
'Cause today I made a friend
And I met him on an "Asian basket making asshole rating" thread
This is the part in the song where the "glowie", the government handler/agent provocateur shows up on the forum where the protagonist is active. The "glowie" already knows the forum lingo, has an obvious Natsee alias that gives him away as a far right extremist, and tries to build rapor with the protagonist. Very soon the agent provocateur begins to escalate his demands, trying to figure out who already has violent intent by asking around who's into building bombs or shooting guns.
This next part is likely pilfered from Henry Rollins' 1995
Liar:
I disgress, man I swear
He's just like me for real
'Cause he talks like me
So thoughfully
And I can't believe it
It feels... real weird
Compare the above with the Liar lyrics:
And then
You meet me
And your whole world changes
Because everything I say
Is everything you've ever wanted to hear
So you drop all your defenses
And you drop all your fears
And you trust me completely...
I'm perfect in every way
Cause I make you feel so strong and so powerful inside
You feel so lucky
But your ego obscures reality
And you never bother to wonder why
Things are going so well
You wanna know why?
In the music video for Liar, when he gets to this part, they cut to Henry Rollins dressed up as a cop:
What's his deal?
Who's he with?
Is he fake?
What's his name?
Who?
"Hitlerrapist1488"?
Glowie part:
Heil mates
Howdy kids
How's the ethno-state my nigs?
I like hobbies
I like things
Yeah no cap
Bussin
Fo' shiz
I'm not cringe
I'm like you
What it do?
Who' s your crew?
Who you fuck with?
Red or blue?
Jews rule, ain't it true?
Glowie escalates:
Anybody here wanna buy a gun?
Anybody here ever wanna build a bomb?
This next line here is clearly a reference to Jan6 and is once again dumbfucks refusing to take personal responsibility for their actions, suggesting they supposedly didn't know they were rioting just as they were rioting and livestreaming themselves doing it on social media to brag about their actions. Naw bitch, don't blame that shit on "glowies", you rioted because you thought it was cool and you thought they'd let you get away with it because everyone else was doing it too, which is literal fucking mindless herd behaviour:
Hey, let's all go and have some fun
Just dancing on the White House lawn
The glowie continues asking around the forum, trying to find all the members with violent intent that he can "befriend" and groom to do his bidding:
Anybody ever wanna kill a politician?
Anyone here ever had a violent thought?
Yo, you can open up
And spill your guts to me,
Alright?
The protagonist suspects he's being ensnared, but he'd rather have a fake internet friend radicalizing him, than no friend at all:
Late at night
I can hear them all (them = the handlers manipulating him)
Laughing as I type
But the glow is so inviting
And it sure is cold outside
Who am I?
Just a guy
With way too much free time
Hold the line, please
"Yo, check out this fucking schizotype!" (this statement is the handlers talking to one another, enthusing over the fact that they finally found someone they can easily groom in the protagonist)
I want all the people listening to this song to stop for a moment and appreciate the post-meta-irony of someone like Null, who openly praises the Unabomber and is constantly ranting about how this group and that group needs to die and #TotalTrannieDeath, appreciate for a moment the irony of Null subjecting his audience to a song like this. What is Null suggesting with this? Is Null suggesting that Kiwis are just too smart and in-the-know to be manipulated by glowies? Who of all Kiwis sounds the most like the glowie in the song? Who has assembled more
"fucking schizotypes" in one place on the internet than Null has?
The glowie tells protagonist that he has make true his threats of committing violence or his not a "real" man, the protagonist is scared but he's too far gone to back down now:
Sleepless night again
But now I got a voice
Stuck inside my head
It's saying
"No more playing now"
"It's time to be a man"
I'm scared
I thought he was my one and only friend
But now the voice is pushing hard
And it won't stop
Until they're dead
I suspect that the meta aspect of this is that Null posted this song almost as a come-on to glowies: "Come on, go ahead and manipulate us... and watch it backfire against you.". The lyric that led me to this conclusion is this one here:
Sure is funny
How it's never
Moneyed men who eat the lead
No
You never see'em shooting suits
Or fucking with the feds
Scratch my head
That's a puzzle
Yeah, it really makes me think
This lyric suggests that glowies will manipulate unhinged members of the general public to commit acts of mass violence, as long as that violence is plebs killing plebs. The job of the glowies is to divert that violence away from the public targeting the elites oppressing them towards the public targeting itself, thus justifying an intervention from the elites to "maintain the peace and restore law and order".
Let's yeet some fucking granny
Counting pennies at the store
She's like 80 anyway
Don't get your panties in a knot
BTW, the above lyrics are likely pilfered from this part from Eminem's 2000 hit single Guilty Conscience, where Eminem raps as the bad voice inside someone's head urging them to commit a robbery:
Dr Dre:
Think about it before you walk in the door first
Look at the store clerk
She's older than George Burns!
Eninem:
Fuck that
Do that shit
Shoot that bitch
Can you afford to blow this shit?
Are you that rich?
Why you give a fuck if she dies?
Are you that bitch?
Do you really think she gives a fuck if you have kids?
This part of the rap suggests that the protagonist is a sexless incel who watches a lot of online porn but it makes him feel angry and rejected, and he fantasizes about shooting dead all the sexy women he can't have.
How bout the tots?
Target's soft
Yeah, let's fuckin kill'em all
At the school
At the mall
Line'em up and watch'em fall
This part is about the media refusing to go along with the conspiracy theory that every mass shooter was secretly groomed:
So, why'd you do it?
Who can say?
FBI won't find a trace
Some might say Islamic State
Others say a broken brain
These two questions are clearly rhetorical, as the author of this song has already made his personal bias clear: he thinks all mass shooters are made and groomed by the government.
Were you born or were you made?
Where should we assign the blame?
Let's run another battery
Best if you co-operate
I don't know what "battery" means here, I guess he means let's run another battery of psychiatric tests to figure out what made the mass-murderer tick? Or is it mean to be a play on words suggesting that the mass-killer was already "battered" and is getting battered against by the carceral/psychiatric system?
Helping hands and friendly face
The trust has got to go both way
So nothing ventured
Nothing gained
Hey
No one said it'd be easy
The rapper warns the listener to watch out for "demons"/glowies, internet people aren't your friends:
There's enemies on every page
How hidden in between the frames
So tell me
The demons
Are they now in the room with you and me?
I don't know what the "key-phrase on the radio weaves" is in reference to, but since the person who wrote this song is a conspiracy theorist, I am guessing he's referring to the
Sirhan Sirhan "sleeper agent" conspiracy that he was supposedly triggered into action by a special word? The protagonist says he's "masking", which is what autistic people do when they try to hide their autism to better blend in with normies.
Key-phrase on the radio waves
I'm about to...
Let loose in a video game
But I dare not
Speak out my true enemy's name
Gotta keep on...
My mask for the fancy charade
And there's no motive
There's still no motive
No one knows the motive
He's got no motive
Oh no
No motive
There's still no motive
No one knows the motive
And then there's the Blue Screen of Death.