| Lupe Fiasco – Handcuffs Lyrics | 14 years ago |
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Seems to be a commentary on the similarity between cops and criminals. "Story" wise, the character in the first verse was caught committing a crime, but he's trying to justify it by comparing the cop to himself. My reasoning? Look at the following lines: "Your mission is forgettin', And denying the existence, Thinkin' of different ways to keep from submittin', And continuin' to not to mention," And "That just give me more time to sit and erase, Alibi and alias, switch and replace, Think about, then, Forget about an escape," If he were innocent, he wouldn't be worried about forgetting about and denying the existence of the evidence or formulating an alibi. The "Money, I've never seen...Calls I didn't make" section is him getting his story straight-- notice he slips up right before that with "If I was in Russia, who knows how they'd do a hustla?" He knows he's done it, but he's trying keep himself from telling the cop that. ---- As for the second verse, he's making accusations and assumptions about his arresting officer, which may or may not be true. |
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| Lupe Fiasco – Yoga Flame Lyrics | 15 years ago |
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My line-by line (well, Section-by section) interpretation of the song- "Meditate, On the floor, Fold your legs, resonate Breathing speed, regulate, Clear my mind till I levitate" Pretty much just yoga imagery, getting ready for the song "Y'all seen me beat the game Level 8, hella good, Never great 'cause God is great So ain't no goats, ain't no gates" First line could be "Dhalsim, I beat the game," Dhalsim being the Street Fighter character with the song's namesake, a move called "Yoga Flame." Not sure about "Level 8, hella good..." lines. Possibly 8/10? But "God is great, So ain't no goats, ain't no gates" is the beginning of the animal imagery. In addition, goats is probably meant to mean "Greatest Of All Time"s. "Fences neither, Rams ran, lambs left, sheep escaped Brace yourself, teeth straight, Fix your face for Pete's sake" The other animals all, because there weren't any gates. The last two are mouth/face wordplay. "Birthday wordplay? Piece of cake Fold the flow with seats for 8 Ororo Munroe make it rain, Not with bills, I make with change" Showing off how easy wordplay is by making a pun. "Ororo Munroe[sic], make it rain...change" is a reference to the X-Men character, Storm who can control the weather--Ororo Munroe is her real name. "Take that cool shit make it lame, Take that nerd shit make it bang, Yeah you heard us make it bang Yeah, you heard me, make it bang" Lupe's Modus Operandi- making the "cool, popular stuff" seem lame by showing what it really is, while putting "nerdy" stuff up on a pedestal. "Take that change and make a ring, Take that ring and make a bracelet, take that bracelet, make a chain, look how far my necklace hang" Jewelry imagery, while going back to the first meaning of 'change' he used about 8 lines ago. "Connect the chain up to a crane Pull the game up by the brains Could not move it just with brains, so I had to use some bling" Uses a different definition of 'chain' than with the jewelry imagery.Something a continuation of Lupe's "mission statement" of sorts two sections ago- "Tried to pull the (rap) game back up using intelligent lyrics("by the brains"), but that didn't work so he had to resort to rapping about bling in the last bit of the song. Also a possible continuation of the X-men allusion-- He couldn't literally move the game using Telekinesis (just with brains) "Shouts to Drizzy, Shout to Wayne Yeezy, Jeezy, Ricky, 50 Raekwon Loso Gucci Mane I'm not going to drop my name." Shout outs to all the popular artists of this year, without associating himself with all that. IIRC, "Drizzy...Gucci Mane" were voted MTV's top MCs (in addition to Jay-Z). "Sneak that message to the masses, You can call me Chocolate Rain, You might think my wallet drained, Look how far my pockets hang, That's cause I got pocket change, My net worth is basketball, they net worth is soccer games" Sneaking a message to the masses, just like the "Chocolate Rain" kid-- his song was popular as hell and had a serious message to it, but only a few people actually got what it meant, while most just went "Lol listen to this kid sing". Also contains lots of money imagery-You might think he's broke because his pockets are hanging (turned inside out, maybe?), but they hang because they're filled with change, which weighs more than bills. Alternatively, his pockets actually are empty, but they're filled with the other kind of change--which is more valuable than money tying in with the next two lines. The net worth lines are also wordplay-- soccer and basketball both have nets around/on the hoop/goal-- basketball's (generally) being worth 2 points, soccer's always being one. This is also kind of a dig at the shout out list in the other section- Soccer's a more popular sport than basketball, being played worldwide, whereas basketball's pretty much an American thing. The other rappers mentioned are more popular, but since their lyrics generally lack substance, are worth less. Phew. "Tell them niggas stop it, man, But they cannot stop the main, so they forced to watch it drain, they be lookin' so blue, like water when I wash my jeans" Water wordplay- tell the other rappers to stop- they can't stop the (water) main, so they have to watch it drain. They look sad(blue) like the water when you wash jeans in it (if you've never looked at a tub or sink of water when you're washing jeans in it, some of the dye comes out and turns the water blue) "Bruce Lee, dishwasher, cleanin' out yo' pots and pans these niggas ain't got no stayin(stain) power once I hit 'em with the powder and throw 'em in the shower" IIRC, Bruce Lee worked as a dishwasher before becoming the martial artist movie star we know today. Also a segue to cleaning wordplay-- "no stain/staying power... shower" are references to Oxyclean-type cleaning powders that activate in water, and removing the stains. "These niggas slower than some dial-up I'll be on my broadband, these niggas still downloading, Lu finished, you still up on U-send and Ushare, Zshare, how long you going to be there, damn, Finally fast dot com for you, fam," Internet wordplay. Dial-up is that classic, old, slow internet that uses up the phone line, broadband is cable/DSL, fast internet. U-Send, Ushare, and Zshare are or were all downloading sites. Lupe's already done because he's on braodband, all those other slow rappers aren't because they're even slower than dial-up. "Finally dot com for you, fam" refers to that website that promises to speed up your computer-In a way, Lupe's offering to bring his fans up to speed. "Information superhighway, these niggas ain't got no lane But you can ride my shoulder like they pulled you over I'll sit in the driver seat, you sit on the sofa," End of the internet wordplay (information superhighway is a nickname for the internet), start and end of highway wordplay-Pretty self-explanatory-- when you get pulled over, you drive over to the shoulder of the road. Lupe's basically telling the other rappers to pull over or stay at home while he does his thing." "I am Patrick Swayze, You are Whoopi Goldberg, 'cause he was a beast, and the way that he controlled her" References to two of Patrick Swayze's acting roles-- The Beast, his last performance, and Ghost, in which he possesses Whoopi Goldberg's character. "Rest in peace to Patrick, Rest in peace to Stacks, kid, Rest in peace to rap, No, rest in peace to wackness" Once again, pretty explanatory- Swazye died late in '09, Stack Bundles in '07. At first he seems to accept that rap is dead, but then decides to try and bury wackness instead. "Yeah, nigga I whacked it, Baby boy with the glasses, tears like a rap, black, Zach Galafianakis Hangover, game over, nigga that's it." Pretty sure this is a dig at Lil' Wayne, basically calling him(and his murder tear tattoos) a joke--Galafianakis is a comedian. In The Hangover, he got punched in the face and knocked out by Mike Tyson. |
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| Coheed and Cambria – The Lying Lies and Dirty Secrets of Miss Erica Court Lyrics | 15 years ago |
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The posted lyrics actually look pretty good, just missing the last little bit of the song. Here's what I got from it, though if someone actually has the lyrics booklet, that'd be great. "They moved too fast, the words behind your teeth, The give and go of most your memories, But I'm not the one that they need pray for, If I've got it all, then what does do? Leave it alone, for that once little boy we used to know Are you willing... well? Hello! Now off to the Hell your God has sold to find, that never again will you rely On the word of your friends, in the unwritten end, For when you go, they won't be following Now sell all your friends, for the unwritten end, 'Cause when you go, they won't be following...him I move the knife to show you are my cut With words, the truth from here I drew no blood, So you're not as real as what I thought of You're just a page to burn from book That has nothing to show of that once little boy we used to know Am I killing... you? Hello! Now off to the Hell your God has sold, To find that never again will you rely, On the word of your friends, in the unwritten end, For when you go, they won't be following, Now sell all your friends, For the unwritten end, 'Cause when you go, they won't be following, (No-o-o-oooh) (No-o-o-oooh) I said when you go, they won't be following (Whoa-o-o-oooa) (No-o-o-oooh) I said when you go, they won't be following... him Believe it or not, you'll know When this ends and how it goes, Believer, believe it or not, you'll know When it ends, and how it goes..." |
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| Lupe Fiasco – Gotta Eat Lyrics | 16 years ago |
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Oh, something I don't -think- anyone's brought up-- the spoken part of the intro. Could be from either the perspective of Michael Young History's shooter (see The Die), some random thug, or for the fast food aspect-- the greasy, unhealthy food. Kills you slow in that it clogs your arteries, slowly, until finally-"BAM! Heart attack." |
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| The Protomen – The Sons of Fate Lyrics | 16 years ago |
| Interestingly, in all the live versions I've seen on Youtube and stuff, it's actually Megaman that says "You will never have another hero! You will never have another chance! You will fall, because you've never tried to stand for yourselves!" | |
| Lupe Fiasco – I Don't Feel So Good Lyrics | 17 years ago |
| Forgot all about that possibility, RayneKamikaze. That would allow for this to fit within the story, without messing up the continuity. | |
| Lupe Fiasco – Gotta Eat Lyrics | 17 years ago |
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Nice catch/explanation, blackscribe. I would never have thought of that, but that makes perfect sense. Also, I believe the lines "And it was hard to understand him sometimes/makin' a killin' the way he had 'em standin' in line..." refer to MYH being hard to understand, not because he was killing his 'customers', but because he used a lot of slang, as well as the speakers of a drive-through window being so garbled the person on the other side is 'hard to understand.' |
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| Rob Dougan – Left Me For Dead Lyrics | 17 years ago |
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Can anyone make out what he says after the last 'You left me for dead?' All I can catch is "I'm almost gone and...? ...... I know each word that was said, Oh you left me for dead, Oh, ....? Now that's all gone and...? I know each word that was said, Oh, you left me for dead." The last word of the "...?" parts sound a bit like 'light,' but can't tell for sure. |
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| Lupe Fiasco – Put You On Game Lyrics | 17 years ago |
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Found the official character bio for The Game. Straight off Lupe's website. Born: Given life the moment the snake suckered Adam and Eve Birthplace:The Garden of Eden Biography:An immortal, soulless entity, The Game scours city blocks and country landscapes with equal menace. Scheming from morning until night, he changes targets like the wind – hustlers, politicians, celebrities, and impressionable youth have all succumbed to his charms. His most valued accomplice is his wife, The Streets. Together, this "Bonnie and Clyde" duo have affected the lives of every man, woman, and child. The victim closest to their affections, however, was Michael Young History, a tortured man seeking acceptance through fame and fortune. Of course, nothing from The Game comes without a price Cool Points: Quite convincing, his foolproof method of touching minds is through blunt fingertips. Through his wire-tapped ears, he’s able to hear the approaching of any enemy. When not hovering over common society, he lives behind bars, plotting ways to see his son, Heroine, and secretly conversing with his marital lover, The Streets. Despite carrying out such heartless actions, The Game does have a blood-pumping system – an amplified system pumping beats through woofer-like veins. |
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| Jonathan Coulton – Re: Your Brains Lyrics | 17 years ago |
| I figured the "We're not unreasonable/I mean no one's gonna eat your eyes" lines were supposed to be funny, just like the 'compromise' lines ("If YOU open up the door, WE'LL all come inside and eat your brains") | |
| Jonathan Coulton – That Spells DNA Lyrics | 17 years ago |
| A quick Google search for all three of the sets he mentioned in the song came up with nothing but references to 'That Spells DNA' (Except GTCACGACAG, which appears to be an actual one in animals and plants, whether by coincidence or otherwise,) so it's likely that he just came up with it for the song. | |
| Jonathan Coulton – Big Bad World One Lyrics | 17 years ago |
| Note the little play on words/ Tarzan speak in the chorus-- "Me zero, Big Bad World One(Won). | |
| Lupe Fiasco – Kick Push II Lyrics | 17 years ago |
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I like the way this song and Kick Push (I) complement eachother. While the the other one shows the 'good side' of the skaters' lives, this shows the bad. IT talks about how he doesn't have any money for food, his mom being a crackhead, his girlfriend using skating as a means to pay for her mother's pills and to have someone to share her pain with. The third talks about his friends' financial situations, and as a sort of remembrance for them. Also, I've listened to this song hundreds of times, and JUST NOW realized what the last lines of verse one meant. "What was on his mind and pushed him to the lid, Their best customer wasn't cookin for a kid" The line's actually '...wasn't cookin' for her kids,' talking about his mom, as a reference to both the earlier line " He knew they wasn't cookin' where he lived,' and the first line of the second verse "See, his mom was a crackhead..." Probably blatantly obvious to everyone else, but it had to be said. |
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| Lupe Fiasco – Kick Push Lyrics | 17 years ago |
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In my opinion, telling people 'Listen to Kick, Push, II to prove that this song's about drugs is counterproductive. One of the first few lines of that song basically flat out- says that he doesn't hang with the drug dealers, (and that even if he would, it wouldn't be very long). Not gonna get too much into that, since that song's not this one, though. That said, the two songs complement eachother nicely. This one shows the 'good side' of the skaters' lives, talks about how the character first got into skating, met his girlfriend, and became popular, all through it, while Kick, Push II shows the ' bad side' to their lives. |
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| Lupe Fiasco – I Don't Feel So Good Lyrics | 17 years ago |
| The Die, from everything I've read (Character Bios, interviews, etc), is actually a prequel to The Cool, though. It shows The Cool's original death. Though it would make those things make sense, The Cool's bio (on Lupe's site) lists him as immortal, so the Die can't be about him dying. | |
| Lupe Fiasco – Switch (The Science Project) Lyrics | 17 years ago |
| @Tenaur- Yeah, I meant to change that, but I wasn't entirely sure if that's what it was or not. Fix'd. | |
| Lupe Fiasco – Paris, Tokyo Lyrics | 17 years ago |
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As a sidenote-- a lot of (all?) the names he used in the song are people he mentioned in the last track on Food And Liquor when he was thanking everyone for being able to make a CD. I think this song is sort of like Kanye West's Homecoming, using a girlfriend as a metaphor for Chicago, though I could be wrong. The last lines of the chorus stand out for that the most though-- "Wherver I go, she goes." Where ever I go, I bring a little bit of Chicago with me. There's also the fact that he used the line "Fall in love in Chicago," which is only one word different from "Fall in love WITH Chicago." But that one's a bit of a stretch. |
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| Lupe Fiasco – I Don't Feel So Good Lyrics | 17 years ago |
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I've heard that this song is a part of the Michael Young History continuity, and that it's about his mother getting pimped by The Game (But before Michael himself grows up.). With that in mind, I can see where some of the lines would fit in with that, but others don't. Everything from ' When she couldn't take the pain' to " When she's pregnant and smokin' weed' would fit with that, (Michael DOES have a sister, (first few lines of the song 'The Cool' so that could be the baby), but the parts about the guy getting killed doesn't fit in, because Michael should still be alive at this part of the story (and he was killed in a car, not by a stray bullet.) Still, the first lines mentioned fit in with it. Some of the second verse are questions aimed at the listener, like "If a racist shows you love, do you feel it?" The title itself is sort of a play on words with every other line of the song, almost as if to say, "No, I don't feel it." or maybe asking the listener for conformation-- "Do you feel it too, or am I imagining it? " |
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| Lupe Fiasco – Little Weapon Lyrics | 17 years ago |
| Well, at least the lyrics are correct. And the title was only one letter off (and has been fixed,) no one noticed it was wrong... | |
| Kanye West – Late Lyrics | 17 years ago |
| Liz16CA- It's a typo, I think. The line sounds like 'cr-cry-cryin' to me. | |
| Lupe Fiasco – Spraypaint and Ink Pens Lyrics | 17 years ago |
| The first verse to me seems a bit delusional, too. after listening to the song a bit more, it sounds like the guy just got a job making deliveries or something "Ran packs across town like /rhyme CDs, big chains, new clothes, nikes and reeboks/" or the lines 'no more 'cross town.' now he's crossin' them states,' though really he'd only walked 4 blocks. | |
| Lupe Fiasco – Lu Myself (Lose Yourself Freestyle) Lyrics | 17 years ago |
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The whispering and mumbling part after "I'm more set than Atlantis" Sounds something like "Damn don't say that, you gon' damage me, you don't see..." |
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| Lupe Fiasco – The Coolest Lyrics | 17 years ago |
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Ahuhu- It probably is, actually. When he performed this at Eastern Michigan University, the last lines were: "...And hang with the players of the cool, Seven at the Golden Shovel, No Heaven up above you, Nor Hell underneath ye, And nowhere will recieve thee, so We sing sin, We think gin, We jazz June, We die soon, The cool." |
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| Lupe Fiasco – The Die Lyrics | 17 years ago |
| @HotChocolat- Yeah. He probably just said 'The Cool' because more people know him as 'The Cool' than his real name. | |
| Lupe Fiasco – Pressure Lyrics | 17 years ago |
| First and Fifteenth (FnF) is his record label. | |
| Lupe Fiasco – Heat Under The Baby Seat Lyrics | 17 years ago |
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I personally like how the song goes more into the one it's sampling (Kids With Guns.) Each verse is about a kid (of varying ages,) how they got the guns, and what they do with them Terry- Younger kid robs the candy store. That, or the whole verse is a metaphor for say, a conveince store or bank robbery "Put the cookies in the bag, take the pennies out the drawer"- Cookies = stuff in safe deposit boxes, pennies = the oney in the bank. Khalil- Child living in the Middle East, possibly a child soldier, Or Alex- High school student, takes a gun from home to begin a Columbine-like shooting. Joker- Kid living in the projects, plans to kill some guys that beat him up before Sara- Soldier in Iraq, kills a supposed insurgent, actually just an old man. Uncle Sam- The US, Killing to go to college- the Army will pay your tuition, |
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| Lupe Fiasco – Switch (The Science Project) Lyrics | 17 years ago |
| Fix'd. Was wondering about that. | |
| Lupe Fiasco – The Die Lyrics | 17 years ago |
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Also the lines "Just remember my nigga, it's a heaven for a G" is a sort of reference to The Cool's "Hustler for death, no heaven for a gangsta," both of which may be a reference to Tupac's frequently used "There's a heaven for a G." line |
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| Lupe Fiasco – The Die Lyrics | 17 years ago |
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[Character names will be all caps] The way I see it, it's the friend that's either reluctantly or accidentally setting up MYH. In the introduction, he warns MYH that someone's gonna try to kill him. The second verse has THE GAME (Possibly, maybe somoene else who'se in love with THE STREETS) bout what he's going to do when he catches MICHEAL. The reasn I think it's THE GAME is because of the line: "Enemy to any nigga gettin' money On my honey..." The character THE GAME is married to THE STREETS, who's having an affair with MICHEAL YOUNG HISTORY (according to the character bios) Gettin' money on my honey therefore = getting money on THE STREETS. The other reason I feel it's THE GAME comes later in the song. In the second chorus, you can hear MYH's friend trying to calm him down, just tellin' him to relax. The entire second verse is a sort of unintenional statement/echo thing. The friend tells MYH something like 'nobody's out there in theat car out there plannin' to rob someone' While THE GAME or the shooter mimics it in the affirmative, 'I'm sitting in this car, fixin' to rob someone' It's most apparent in the last two parts, where the friend lists everything MYH has in his truck that 'they don't know about', and THE GAME/ the shooter lists all those things and knows about them. The final lines before the friend goes to pee are exactly the same, chaning 'we' to 'they', and 'go and get some grub' to 'catch a few slugs' Verse Two was the reason I believe that THE GAME was the shooter, and the friend was the one who set MYH up. One of the features of THE GAME is 'wiretaps for ears', through which he can hear everything. The friend tells Michael allt he things he's got in his own car, that THE GAME might not know about, who repeats it to himself, listing it off. The reason I figure the friend was reluctant about setting micheal up is because even while he was doing it, he was trying to warn MYH, up to the lat line "and if a nigga do KILL YOU IN THE NEXT FEW MINUTES..." basically telling MYH what's going on. |
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| Kanye West – Spaceship Lyrics | 17 years ago |
| Jassss 3/4 time is a music term. 3 beats per measure, each beat is a quarter note. 3/4. Most songs are in 4/4 time, 4 beats a measure, each beat's a quarter note. | |
| Lupe Fiasco – Put You On Game Lyrics | 17 years ago |
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Nsollman, I both agree and disagree with ya. While the song is not about the 'game', it is about 'The Game,' the character, who for all intents and purposes, is the devil. The Cool is Micheal Young History (My cool young history. Hooray for puns), who is in fact one of those people who felt Misogyny, drugs, and decadance are the height of cool, because he was taught to feel that way by 'The Game.' Tricked into being a part of the game, by The Game. |
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| Lupe Fiasco – And He Gets the Girl Lyrics | 17 years ago |
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As just a story, it provides a moral of 'people aren't always like they appear.' While the character in this story (Who I'll call Seymour, even though I know that's not Lupe's actual name((Wasalu Muhammed Jaco, for the interested)) seems to be a nerdy, unpopular guy, he wants to date the seemingly stereotypical cheerleader girl Luna. Even before we ger her verse, lines like "I don't believe the things they say or the football team's rumors" seems to be a 'fake friends' kind of thing, since earlier in the verse, he mentions her always hangin' out with the other popular folks. In Luna's verse, we find that she likes a lot of the same things Seymour does, and has a few 'nerdy' interests of her own "I love final fantasy..." and hates cheerleading. In the introduction third verse (whiich I put up a few comments ago) Lupe begins to talk as if things didn't work out between the two of them, only to finish with "But, then again... maybe... some things are," which goes even more with the things aren't as they appear sort of theme the song has going. Because it mentions "thngs and people [growing]" and " some things are [meant to be]," I imagine the third verse as a timeskip, with a second character change, this time Seymour and Luna's son Lucas (which is why I used the name Seymour instead of Lupe or Lucas in the first two verses), who wants to find his own girlfriend, but is a bit more direct about it than Seymour was with Luna, bringing her a backpack full of flowers, instead of doing a 'psych yourself up first, try and say hi' kind of thing. Beside's the little introduction to verse 3, the other reason I think it's a flash forward to say... 20 years into the future, is because of Lucas' reaction to the "Who're these flowers for?" line in the background. He basically says, 'Well, there's a girl I like, but I really haven't talked to her yet,' but Seymour and Luna basically listed off all their interests to eachother when they first met. As far as the metaphor for hiphop goes, Wow, Buckko, that must have took some thinking. I definately agree with that meaning for the metaphorical, even if it's not correct. |
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| Lupe Fiasco – Hip Hop Saved My Life Lyrics | 17 years ago |
| Drazz- It's talking about the (fictional) freestyle the (fictional) rapper in the song did that they mentioned like two lines before it. He picked up his son and sung it to him. | |
| Gorillaz – Clint Eastwood (Phi Life Cypher Version) Lyrics | 17 years ago |
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I actually like this version about as well as the original And the line MysticKenji mentioned is a reference to NIN the band, but actual nine inch nails, since the rest of the verse is about beating the shit out of someone. "Perform some acupuncture" is just saying he's gonna stab someone with nine inch long nails... |
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| Lupe Fiasco – Hip Hop Saved My Life Lyrics | 17 years ago |
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The first one I hadn't noticed because I'd copied it from one of the lyrics forums on the site. Thought that's what it said to begin with. As for the second one, I'm not so sure about. Originally, that's what it said, but it makes sense either way. |
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| Lupe Fiasco – Spraypaint and Ink Pens Lyrics | 17 years ago |
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All three of these verses follow the same basic formula. A male protagonist dies for a woman. That said all three 'stories' are completely different in how this is executed. The first is about a young boy, who becomes a hustler to make money for his mother, after his father'd been killed. He 'leaves town' for a drug deal, and is killed because it's a setup, having actually only went a few blocks. The second character robs the safe in a pawn shop, stealing some rings and a wedding band. He mails them off to have them melted down into a bullet. Two weeks later, when he gets the bullet in the mail, he looks over at the picture of his dead wife, wearing the ring he'd melted down, and kills himself with the bullet. The final story seems similar to Mobile Suit Gundam or some other mecha combat series. The character's robot suit's been badly damaged, and he's got no chance of escape. He sends his girl off in the escape pod, at least giving her the chance to survive. With one hand blown off, no laser cannons or aiming systems, he draws his beamsword, and makes a mad dash for the enemy's fleet, laughs, and quickly dies, putting an end to the 'Seven Planet Wars.' |
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| Lupe Fiasco – Paris, Tokyo Lyrics | 17 years ago |
| The "Xs on the shore" is talking about "X marks the spot", with buried treasure. | |
| Lupe Fiasco – Twilight Zone Lyrics | 17 years ago |
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I think this song's mostly Lupe just using double meanings of different words and phraes, like "My mouth is a speaker"- You speak out of your mouth or "Sprint was pimpin Nextel; I heard she go two ways" Nextel makes those two way phones |
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| Lupe Fiasco – Us Placers Lyrics | 17 years ago |
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Thought about this awhile back on verse III, but forgot to post it with the other post. The line "'Cause who knew, that day, that man would just Go to VA with a Tec and spray campuses..." Has a slight, obvious pun in it. "Va with a Tec"= VA Tech, the school the (then) recent shooting happened at, as well as tec being a gun. Lupe's verse- Raps about all the useless crap you buy when yoou're famous, bigscreen TVs, boats, expensive paintings, a mansion to put it in, and a doberman to protect all your precious belongings, And ends with him pretty much saying "Money can't buy happiness" Kanye's verse- Raps about people that WERE famous, or are trying to be famous, talking about how they try and keep getting popular after whatever gave them that momentary popularity ("Trying to keep that balance after MTV, that's a real world challenge" - Reference to The Real World, a reality show on MTV) Has a slight, obvious pun in it. "Va with a Tec"= VA Tech, the school the (then) recent shooting happened at, as well as tec being a gun. Pharell's verse- Raps about people who don't recognize their full potential like people who could have been chemists, had circumstances been different ("Perfect paradigm, wrong place, wrong time, shoulda been Phizer, GlaxoSmithKline"), and finishes with the lesson of "you never know what tomorrow will bring" ("I wonder how God's gonna paint today's canvases?/Cause who knew that day, that man would just/Go to VA with a Tec and spray campuses... |
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| Lupe Fiasco – Superstar (Remix) Lyrics | 17 years ago |
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*when I posted the last comment didn't notice the thing at the bottem* And forgot to finish my post. Lupe's verse is obviously about losing your popularity after being a 'superstar,' and how someone can double their 15 minutes of fame by not recognizing their full potential the first time "I fail on purpose to stay a freshman" "I'll only know half my powers, but I'll stay half an hour" T.I's is about the fake friends you get when you get the popularity, and how they disappear when you lose it, as well as the fake /people/ who kiss ass to get to the top, |
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| Lupe Fiasco – Superstar (Remix) Lyrics | 17 years ago |
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"Had to get rid of the phonies and the homies disguised" Should be "...phonies in a homie disguise." |
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| Lupe Fiasco – The Gorilla Lyrics | 17 years ago |
| I think this song is also called "A Bathing Harry" on the Lupe The Gorila/Angel Nights mixtape. | |
| Lupe Fiasco – Hip Hop Saved My Life Lyrics | 17 years ago |
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PoleMan14- Yeah, that makes sense. Fix'd. I agree with Shaneandrews on those lines0. By "...It feels good when it happens like that, two days from goin' back to sellin crack..." he means that it's great that things went that way, because if they hadn't he'd have gone back to selling crack. |
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| Lupe Fiasco – Hip Hop Saved My Life Lyrics | 18 years ago |
| @kennay- Says nah mean, as the abbreviated version of "know what I mean?" | |
| Lupe Fiasco – Put You On Game Lyrics | 18 years ago |
| @TB31- Real Recognize real, the third verse. Also, this song. | |
| Lupe Fiasco – The Coolest Lyrics | 18 years ago |
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@fatpat- Also, every flower that I ever took apart may refer to that 'she loves me, she loves me not' thing, where you take the petals off the flowers. Just noticed this awhile back "And if the rain stops..." rain-reign, the last few lines were talking about him being her king, etc. |
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| Lupe Fiasco – The Instrumental Lyrics | 18 years ago |
| My English teacher came up with a different meaning for this song, though she only saw the first verse. The "box" represents the popoular kids, while the boy is just someone trying to fit in with them, but can't quite pull it off. Lines like "he mimics and he mocks it, really hates the box, but he can't remember how to stop it..." meaning that he trys to emulate them, and he hates himself for it, but he can't stop, because he really does want to fit in. | |
| Lupe Fiasco – Streets On Fire Lyrics | 18 years ago |
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The intro Matthew Santos signs before the first chorus sounds like "The stars are alignin', the planets collidin', the plan(?) is arrivin', and she's out there smilin', the fear is upon us, disguised by the water, the pilgrims are goners(?) their children will martyr(?) they're drivin' me crazy, this war is my lady, the bombs are our babies, and God is amazing, the tick of the timer, the spit? of the rhymer, the pimp on the rise, you'll fall or you'l find us, he-hey..." |
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| Lupe Fiasco – Gotta Eat Lyrics | 18 years ago |
| Also, during the chorus from the second time on, in the background, he's singing 'Yuuuuum, yuuum, yum, yum yum' | |
| Lupe Fiasco – Put You On Game Lyrics | 18 years ago |
| PWR22- Yeah, The character The Game is basically a modern version of the devil. In fact, the biography on the site lists his birthdate as "Born the moment the snake suckered Adam & Eve" | |
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