Dumb It Down

alright you guys are analyzing the chorus but thats pretty obvious, the verses are the real depth in this song, its crazy

The first verse: He starts by saying that his eyes is where his ears is. Then he goes on by talking about letting someone else take the steering wheel and letting them drive because he's blind. He then goes on to talk about ghosts and how they will write for the driver and bring flowers to the dead.

Interpretation: People are followers and let rappers with negative lyrics steer them in the wrong direction, as evidence by his saying that the "windshield is menstrual" (bloody) which could be talking about negativity in general or literally "gun talk" and violence in rap.

Second verse: He reiterates that he is blind but can only hear the message once he realizes that the stewardess of the plane which is being driven by the negative rapper is a hot woman (video girls). He talks about how the message is as "high as an earing to the ground is." A woman's height is not very high. The "Pimp C the wings on the Underground Kings, who's also Clingon, to infinity" is talking about how the pilot degrades women and will both use them to spread his message and simultaneously steer them in the wrong direction. He goes on to talk about "flying on a pheasant" while snorting the white horse etc. The pheasant is going to steer you straight into the ground.

Interpretation: Rappers use video girls as a formula to get people to listen to their negative message. Once she has your attention, he can proceed to tell you about how killing and doing/selling drugs is cool. The the white guy (the industry) or the pheasant wants you to dumb it down and keep the people ineducated in order to sell these negative records

Third verse: Talks about being brain dead and headless to the point where whatever the pilot says goes. The pilot will then drown you with materialism until you are "neck-less." The water starts to drown the listener, but ...

LUPE TO THE RESCUE! He comes in and pulls the plug to drain the water so that you don't drown "until the water rises again" (or until his next album comes out). He's pretty much calling himself a breath of fresh air.

"Make it rain for the chicks pour champagne on a bitch what the fuck is wrong with you?"

that's my favorite part. Rap has been on a steady decline for years, even Jay-Z isn't good anymore. We need the Lupe's to save mainstream hip hop. All the good rapers aren't on the radio, turn it off and spend some energy to discover new artists with good lyrics and save hip hop, it might not be too late...

I really wish there were more Lupe Fiasco's in the industry. It is sad that so much of black music has been marginalized to bullshit consisting money, hoes, cars, drugs, and material shit. I hope more artists and record company bigwigs are inspired by Lupe to step their game up. Stop dumbing down your damn music!

This is a really difficult song to decipher but still amazing. Some of the stuff he says are just vague references but most of it has to do with him being a rare brand of rapper and his pride in his skills. I understand alot of the first verse which is alot about him being a shade of gray trying to be a different type of rapper but at the same time caught in some of the mainstream.

I'm fearless (I stand alone) Now hear this (Listen up) I'm earless ( I don't listen to those that want me to dumb it down) And I'm peerless ( I stand alone as a rapper) That means I'm eyeless (Play on word I-less but more importantly he cannot see any real rap because he's peerless he cannot see anyone as a real rapper) Which means I'm tearless (he is unaffected by his critics) Which means my iris resides where my ears is (I'm listening for the real rappers) Which means I'm blinded (Same thing he doesn't see them) But I'mma find it I can feel it's nearness (but he knows there out there) But I'mma veer so I don't come near d Like a chicken or a deer (This whole part is about him hitting a deer at the most basic level but it also signifies he too is apart of the rap game) But I remember I'm not a listener or a seer so my windshield smear (He is not just a listener but he isn't a prophet, a seer, so he has to deal with some of the mainstream rap stuff thats why his windshield smeared) Here, you steer, I really shouldn't be behind this, clearly cause my blindness (He remembers he's a different breed of rapper) The windshield is minstrel, the whole grill is roadkill, so trill and so sincere. Yeah, I'm both them there (Important line he is apart of the problem and solution he says I'm both them there) Took both pills, when a bloke in a trench coat and the locs in the chair had approached him here (Another example of where he lives in both realms. He doesn't just take the blue pill, which I think would show him the real world, but he also takes the red pill so he's somewhere in between. I haven't gotten to the rest but I will later.

Great song, good message.

try saul williams. he's pretty sick too,

"Lucky they make it flowered" Should be "Lucky they make you fly with"

And I think it might be "MADE it clear as a ghost OR a biter of the throats in the mirror." Not sure, though.

Anway, the message is pretty clear in this, just from the title and the chorus.

This is clearly about his good message and how the "hood" and the government dont like it. The hood doesn't like it because its not what they are used to i suppose and the government doesnt like it because the message is educating African Americans

YO THIS IS THE HOTTEST SONG I'VE HEARD IN A MINUTE, I PLAY THIS TRACK OVER AND OVER AGAIN ALL DAY LONG. HE SPIT HOT FIRE LIKE DYLON FOR REAL FOR REAL! MOTIVATION!

Yeah, Gmini is representing the hood, and the white dude in the video is representing the whites....well...lol thats a big duh