| Lupe Fiasco – Glory Lyrics | 18 years ago |
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1. this song is about the struggles a concious rapper goes through when trying to deviate from the norm. it's as if lupe is giving advice to some one who is coming up. he's speaking from the standpoint of some one who has been there. "When your spirit is strained and you limited to change The lyrics in your limericks'll change A different hook, the way the sentences arranged More demented in your deliverance, more sinister in your slang Sounds more belligerent when it's sang" 2. the rapper in this stanza is taking on a more angry approach to his music. his music is more violent because of the anger and frustration he's expirencing internally. "The truth--is limitless in it's range If you drop a "t" and look at it in reverse, it could hurt Look at the grimaces of the pain And it's worse when it works and your membership is gained" 3. his anger in his music stems from internal hurt. and becuase of the violent music he's gained "membership" into a league of other viloent mainstream rappers. "Like poof, the media pours images in your brain Of the score of the war where militants are slain The faces of the guilty where innocence is proclaimed And they filthy, the deaf ears are the winners The listeners are the lames Of the ballad of the man that the son of a minister has became, so " 4. the media basically shapes the rappers thinking into what they think he is and should be and it's reflected in his music. the militants could be people within the black commnity who are wrongfully accused labled as guilty but are in fact innocent. "deaf ears" are the ones who don't want to hear the thruth, they are also lame. for giving into the faulty images of black men in gangster rap and in the news, and music videos. "Now the fools that are used as instruments in the game Where oppression is the queen and ignorance is the king" 5. the fools are the mainstream rappers and anyone who participates in this glamourized lifestyle. they are the ones who are oppressing their own kind and are used as "intruments" in the rap game perpetuating ignorance through the music. "Where revolution is dead--no candles in its memory No remembrance of it's fame, just a mystery No mentioned in the history of the chained, the enemy No Hennessy sentiments in its name" 6. there is no revolutionary rappers, no one mentions the struggles of the peoeple "history of the chain" i.e slavery. no one remembers what real hip hop is about. "Just an unmarked grave that menaces have defamed With the propaganda, and images of the gangs A lost art, no apprentices in the trained And they brainwashed, no interest in this thing" 7. hip hop is dead. and it's grave is not marked. the menaces who have defamed it are all the commercialized rappers who perpetuate violence and stereotypes. its a lost art with no one to teach the new and up and coming rappers what its all about. "The pride is still here, the privileges still remain, but" 8. there is still hope, we still have pride and are priviledged to speak new messages. "And you gotta respect the position in which you're playing Never let your heart reflect the conditions in which you're staying Even if it's dark, and the temperature is the same as winters in the Ukraine " 9. dont take advantage of the fact that u are a rapper who has plenty of possiblilites. never let your art reflect all the anger and negativity that is inside of you. "Keep maliciousness restrained, be smart" stay away from malice and be smart when delivering your lines. "Cause it's innocent witnesses oblivious to the things Become the ones hypnotists keep entertained " innocent witness are the young impressioned listeners to hip hop, be weary of them, not to spread any negative messages because they've already been hypnotized by the media and the violence in rap that is out there today. "Stay resistant, and committed to what you saying Cause they'll flip it the minute that you refrain Read the book, and the lines, and literature in between Cause you gotta be educated when going against the grain Pay attention, they illegitimate in they claims 10. stay commited to what you rap about. cuz at any chance the media, and other commercial rappers will attack your work anytime that u dont stick to your guns. stay read up and educated on things because you have to know your stuff when going against the majority. when he says "illegitimate in they claims" he's talking about the lies regarding money, hustling and women that most rappers lie about. when he says "they assisted in the killing and pillaging, in addition to the addiction" he means they are the reason a lot of people in the hood are on drugs, and are killing eachother. impressionable minds listen to the hardcore rap and think a lot of it is cool, so they immulate those images by going out selling drugs and keep strapped killing eachother because of what they are fed through the media and rap music. there is so much more depth to this song i only scratched the surface. lupe is brilliance personified. |
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| Lupe Fiasco – Conflict Diamonds Lyrics | 18 years ago |
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kante west's version has nothing to do with blood diamonds, it was just an excuse for him to floss. lupe's version has so much depth and describes all the issues behind blood diamonds. he definitely took me to school on this track. |
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| Lupe Fiasco – Hip Hop Saved My Life Lyrics | 18 years ago |
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int the chorus... "One you never heard of, I... Push it harder, further the... Grind, I feel like murder but... Hip Hop you saved me " that is the voice of the struggling rapper the new to the game "one you've never heard of", and she's saying even though doing this music "feels like murder", since he feels he's selling out cuz it's not positive and anything of value it is the one thing that is saving him from his desperate position in life. also |
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| Lupe Fiasco – Streets On Fire Lyrics | 18 years ago |
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you guys are all forgetting one important fact he's referring to in this song. the "streets" is one of the 3 characters in the cool. she literally represents the streets. where everyone wants to be and what every one thinks is cool. "fire" is representing the virus aids. when some one is burning or on fire it means they are infected with an std, but in this song it's incurable which means its aids. "Some say it's an exit and some say it's an entrance" in reference to aids this means there's an exit into death, or an entrance into a statistic. in reference to being cool it means and exit from reality or whats real into an entrance into whats fake. "The poor say the rich have the cure The rich say the poor are the source" the poor think the rich have the cure to aids cuz they can afford it. the rich think the poor are the source since they are poor. that also means that the poor think being rich is the cure to being poor and uncool. the rich think the reason they are the way are is because they dont want to be poor. |
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