| Lupe Fiasco – Put You On Game Lyrics | 13 years ago |
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"'Cause I'm the ...." Game. Lupe Fiasco created three soft-of characters that he references in his songs: The Streets, The Game, and the Cool. The Cool is a dopeslinging gangster who was trained by the Streets and the Game. The Streets is the environment - the ghettoes, the poverty-stricken 'hoods, but beyond that, too - the battlefields, the slave plantations, all those areas of conflict and hopelessness and death. The Game is what happens there - the fighting, the killing, the lifelessness, the crime, the drugs, the money, all of it. It's not just the Devil - it's the hate, the death, the grief, the wars, the darkness, the power, and what we do to get it. And it's everywhere - it speaks every language, knows every name, it's the oldest, most ancient of things. It's in the American dream, the rape of Africa, the Industrial machine, the city, the water, the schools. But that's not all the Game is. We can't say what it is, entirely. "Some of your smartest have tried to articulate / My whole part in this / But they're fruitless in their harvesting." It's something we all know, but we can only catch glimpses of it. We can't even really put a name to it (the gunshot at the end). And the Game creates the Cool. Hence the line, "These fools are my fuel / So I make them cool." The Game makes the gangsters, the death, the killing - it makes them cool. It makes the Cool. It puts its death and destruction and killing and murdering and hate and pain and cruelty and puts it on the TV, tells us it's cool and makes us into its fools - its fuel. Is it an active presence - like the Devil or the Illuminati, like people have suggested? I don't think so - because the perspective changes. It speaks as the Game from its throne, but also as the gangster murdering a baby's parents, and as the parent leaving their baby to die in the trash because it can't stand it anymore. The Game isn't some person or people manipulating all the evil - it's in us. It's something in us, the way we act, what we do. We create it, and we're victims to it, and so it's been from the most ancient of times. It's worse than the Devil. Because this nameless, evil thing - it's part of us. |
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| Lupe Fiasco – Shining Down Lyrics | 15 years ago |
| There's definitely something about raising up idols and worshiping fame in here - the "see us shining down on you," - see the stars looking down. | |
| Lupe Fiasco – Shining Down Lyrics | 15 years ago |
| Lupe's always difficult to follow in his lyrics because he's got so many little puns and references and tricks of language. Everything has a double meaning. It's his style and it's great. | |
| Brendan Benson – Cold Hands (Warm Heart) Lyrics | 15 years ago |
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In the end, love hurts. Love isn't easy. Love is a lot of work. Nothing about it comes automatically. I love this song because it captures a sense of loss, of grief, but at the same time, it's got a thread of cheery hope binding it. It seems to capture the hurt of love so well. |
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