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Four years ago, @queensofthestoneage released the amazing …Like Clockwork and I'm gonna go through illustrating the tracks just like I did with Villains. "Keep Your Eyes Peeled deals with emotions centered around being trapped in some distorted mentality or alternative reality which is largely negative, and continuing to survive in it/through it."

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Final artwork of my QOTSA Villains illustration series.

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From Josh Homme: "Is “Villains Of Circumstance” a love song? Of course. I won’t be here forever and when I’m gone, I want to have left things for my little people that will last a long time. They will get that later. I don’t want to pen it in so much but the lyric ‘Dream me home’ is when you lay your head down and across a vast ocean, someone else is laying their down and you can say all the words you know but it doesn’t matter, you’re still oceans apart."

My favorite closer track in any @queensofthestoneage album.

This has been fun. :)

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Part eight of my QOTSA Villains illustration series.

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With a Led Zeppelin-esque guitar riff and a testosterone fueled outro, the epic “The Evil Has Landed” marks a last highlight on the record before the closing track.

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Part seven of my QOTSA Villains illustration series.

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Studded with synths and a slow, sexy groove, “Hideaway”’s lyrics suggest a romantic entanglement between predator and prey. Allusions are made that the relationship is not equal, full of psychological manipulation, and is in essence hidden from view.

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I’m doing this new illustration series for the new QOTSA album, this is the fifth one. Check all of them out on my Instagram.

“Un-Reborn Again” suggests that drug use and blatant ignorance coupled with the desire to remain “forever” youthful (a stereotype perpetuated by social media culture) lead those seeking immortality to pay a higher price for their obsession, than those who accept that life has a natural end.”

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Heyy guys!

I’m doing this new illustration series for the new QOTSA album, this is the fourth one. Check all of them out on my Instagram.

In Josh's words to @rollingstone :

"When you’re younger, I think you are encouraged or you encourage yourself to hide behind a mask. As the years have gone on, that mask has worn away. I’ve lost any reason to hide. I have a vast disinterest in hiding anything when it comes to writing music. The more vulnerable and honest it is, the better I feel about it."

Make sure you listen to QOTSA’s new Album Villains.

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Heyy guys!

I’ll be doing this new illustration series for the new qotsa album, already on the third one. Check all of them out on my Instagram.

Third song of the album, had to mull this over for a couple of days, here's what I came up with.

Lyrically, the song alludes to social “groupthink”, when mass consensus, a lack of creativity and personal responsibility combine. Josh speaks out against conformity, championing the individual mind and standing as a singular voice outside the many.

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I’ll be doing this new illustration series for the new QOTSA album.

This one for the groovy track 2, let me know if you like it!

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I’ll be doing this new illustration series for the new qotsa album.

Be sure to check it out!

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"In some black communities there’s still a stigma that kinky or coarse hair is “bad”, which couldn’t be further from the truth. There’s no such thing as good or bad when describing someone’s natural hair texture or type. To those struggling to love and accept their natural hair because of societal pressures, remember this - straight, curly, kinky or wavy, it doesn’t make a difference. Embrace your hair the way it is, no matter what society tells you.

All hair is good hair. It’s your Crown." Inspired by the amazing work of Gerrel Saunders.

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There is a theory that fish only grow to the size of their tank. So the “Big Fish Theory” pertains to someone who is capable of much bigger things, but is trapped inside the fish tank someone else put them in and therefore will only grow in accordance with their limits. This translates to being African-American in modern day America, where everybody has full potential to grow as big as they can, but certain people are bound by society, and how big society will let them get. In other words, if you take someone like Vince, for example, and put labels on him like “black”, “rapper”, “crip”, etc. then he isn’t likely to grow past those labels, and will only be able to be as big as the tank (society) will let him be.

You all should listen to probably the best hip hop album from this year by Vince Staples.

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