>"Telephone" - last track of the album inspired by a story
>Dilla's mother told Badu. Evidently during his final days,
>Dilla would float in and out of coherence, having very real
>conversations with people no one else could see. One of these
>people, as Dilla told his mother, was ODB. Dirty was telling
>Dilla that when he gets to the other side not to get on the
>red bus, though it was inviting. The white bus would be the
>one to pick him up. Great, beautiful song. Lyric: "Telephone!
>It's Old Dirty. He wants to give you directions home." Only
>Badu could make ODB sound like a visionary guide through the
>afterlife. When people say funerals are celebrations of an
>individual's life (as they fight back tears and look anything
>but celebratory), this song makes you believe it. The track
>closes with the uplifting words "Celebrate tonight" repeated.
^^^^^^^^^^My brain just exploded thinking about this^^^^^^^