"Molecule Flavor" is a song by American rapper Lupe Fiasco and MIT List Visual Arts Center, released from their joint musical art project Ghotiing MIT: Public Art (2025). It was written and recorded during Winter 2025. Fiasco was inspired by the 2015 sculpture Chord by Antony Gormley, located in Simons Building (Budling 2) at MIT.
Cultural references[]
- James Bond is a fictional British spy, created in 1953 by writer Ian Fleming. The successful franchise has spawned other media adaptations, including television, film, and comics.
- Adam and Eve in the creation myth were the first man and woman.
- The Addams Family is a fictional family created by American cartoonist Charles Addams.
- Barry Bonds is an American former professional baseball player who played 22 seasons in Major League Baseball.
- Dungeons & Dragons is a fantasy tabletop role-playing game.
- Phantasm is an American horror film series franchise.
- The World Wide Web (WWW) is an information system invented by English computer scientist Tim Berners-Lee, that enables content sharing over the Internet.
Lyrics[]
[Intro]
Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah
Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah
Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah
[Verse 1]
Bonds like James
Bonds like get out of chains
Adam's like Eve
Addams like family's
Bonds like debt
Instruments to raise money, to erect
Bonds like Barry
Stems like bonds
Adam's like cherries
Harvest when ready
Went red in the field, signs like Jerry
Not red like books, but red like spaghetti
Bonds connected like weddings
Connected like world wide webbing
Connected like netting
And it's spreading many feet tall
Bonds like pasta
Adams like meatballs
Go together like seesaws
Hard to see laws
So blow up the nanoscale like beachballs
Magnify to amplify and analyze
Freestanding not strapped in or attached
Only balanced cores stacked to be stabilized
That's fact, not a cap or a pack of lies
It'll shake if you vandalize
Gotta shift your shape to be canalized
[Hook]
Please do not climb or touch
Everything else is quite fine by us
Please, please
Please do not climb or touch
Everything else is quite fine by us
[Verse 2]
Filling up the staircase
Airspace tethered to the pear tastes
Electron share shape
Jungle gym
Bubble arm
Bubble blend
Dungeons & Dragons dice
Also abstract muscle making structured in
If you touched it once, please don't ever touch again
Skeleton metal will wobble if metal with
Step with care if you near Perry Jove with preciousness
In other words, don't mess with it
Studded floor for your boundary
Around the, stick and bounding balls
Of course, not for bouncing
And they look like phantasm
Another movie reference, furious styles hair had 'em
Could have name this install the life of a pinball
With all its routes and tethers
Alternative title, we all in this together
I hope it struck in the chord means more than orbitals to us
Hope it stands for something just or just that
You don't need symmetry to keep up
[Hook]
But please do not climb or touch
Everything else is quite fine by us
Please, please,
Please do not climb or touch
Everything else is quite fine by us