If you hit up Lupe Fiascos website www.lupefiasco.com....it really explains all of the metaphors clearly.
there are biographies for three characters:
The Game: which is the desire for infamy and success
The Streets: The allure and an alternate illicit route to success
The Cool: Michael Young History's like soul...
I chose to explicate Lupe Fiasco's lyrics as a poetry project for my AP English class...you guys helped me out alot XD
thanks so much haha
the albulm is basically about Michael Young ( and coincidently I believe Lupe Fiascos Michale Young=My cool Young) relationship with these enticing characters...its crazy how his whole entire album can be kind of like a biography of not just Michael Young's life but so many characters lives through out history...and how they have strayed off the path easily chasing fame.
I couldn't understand the part where he is like:
"and if I ever die She would commission monuments on her bosom, to him "
but if you read The Streets' biography on the website and look through the booklet it talks about how she tattoos of those she has had an affair with on her chest...and if you look closely in the booklet you can see the names tattooed there like Roger Clemens'.
also this part:
"and everything's irie, anoth' supply
That means anoth' July inside my endless summer"
it means like everything is going good because he recieved another supply "another july, my endless summer," refers to the movie, "The Endless summer"
Its title comes from the last line in the film, which expresses the idea that if one had enough time and money it would be possible to follow the summer around the world, making it endless. this links Paris/Tokyo in the album back to this song...
"no weatherman" said quick sounds like no other man:
"No weather man could ever stand where her and I came"
which refers back to the need just for success but to be THE GREATEST.
and when he is talking about magazines:
"Above the others, my face with grace covers of the magazines
Of the hustlers, PAPER, the likes of which
That I had never seen,"
paper is the perfect transition because it is the name of a magazine.
seas and shore in the first line arent= seas and shore
seas=sieze which means the appeal
shore=sure which means the confidence
which is like how people feel like they are more confident when they are carrying a piece and the danger and the lifestyle of a gangster is appealing because it brings fame and $$$
then when he says "No love for no Beach" he is affirming that he isn't talking about the beach at all, because he just said he loves the seas and the shore...which would be a beach, but in the same verse says that he doesn't love the beach...
GOTTA LOVE LUPE...there is so much more but I would be glued to my computer if I didn't leave it right now.
Oh yeah I agree that with that first part of the opposites he isn't actually saying what we think he is.
Oh yeah I agree that with that first part of the opposites he isn't actually saying what we think he is.
"I love the Lord"
I always thought he was saying "I love the law"
"I love the Lord"
I always thought he was saying "I love the law"
"But sometimes it's like that I love me more"
He likes laws and order, but not if it gets in the way of what he wants.
"But sometimes it's like that I love me more"
He likes laws and order, but not if it gets in the way of what he wants.
"I love the peace and I love the war"
Peace as in piece as in gun. This agrees with the previous line, going against the law for selfish reasons, using guns and war as...
"I love the peace and I love the war"
Peace as in piece as in gun. This agrees with the previous line, going against the law for selfish reasons, using guns and war as he pleases.
"I love the seas and I love the shore"
This connects back to both parts. Seas represent adventure and danger, meaning the war. Shores represent safety.
"No love for no beach, baby that's law"
A beach is the seas and shore combined, which is the edge of danger and safety, and to him that's what the law acts as. Beach also sounds like bitch, so he could be saying that there's a woman who's stopping him from being "Cool" and this is the one whose back he turns on to go to the Streets.
I love the immense amounts of double meanings and how it makes perfect sense both ways. The amount of intellectual music contained in those few lines far outmatches almost every single song in existence.
If you hit up Lupe Fiascos website www.lupefiasco.com....it really explains all of the metaphors clearly.
there are biographies for three characters:
The Game: which is the desire for infamy and success The Streets: The allure and an alternate illicit route to success The Cool: Michael Young History's like soul...
I chose to explicate Lupe Fiasco's lyrics as a poetry project for my AP English class...you guys helped me out alot XD thanks so much haha
the albulm is basically about Michael Young ( and coincidently I believe Lupe Fiascos Michale Young=My cool Young) relationship with these enticing characters...its crazy how his whole entire album can be kind of like a biography of not just Michael Young's life but so many characters lives through out history...and how they have strayed off the path easily chasing fame.
I couldn't understand the part where he is like: "and if I ever die She would commission monuments on her bosom, to him "
but if you read The Streets' biography on the website and look through the booklet it talks about how she tattoos of those she has had an affair with on her chest...and if you look closely in the booklet you can see the names tattooed there like Roger Clemens'.
also this part:
"and everything's irie, anoth' supply That means anoth' July inside my endless summer"
it means like everything is going good because he recieved another supply "another july, my endless summer," refers to the movie, "The Endless summer" Its title comes from the last line in the film, which expresses the idea that if one had enough time and money it would be possible to follow the summer around the world, making it endless. this links Paris/Tokyo in the album back to this song...
"no weatherman" said quick sounds like no other man:
"No weather man could ever stand where her and I came"
which refers back to the need just for success but to be THE GREATEST.
and when he is talking about magazines:
"Above the others, my face with grace covers of the magazines Of the hustlers, PAPER, the likes of which That I had never seen,"
paper is the perfect transition because it is the name of a magazine.
seas and shore in the first line arent= seas and shore
seas=sieze which means the appeal shore=sure which means the confidence
which is like how people feel like they are more confident when they are carrying a piece and the danger and the lifestyle of a gangster is appealing because it brings fame and $$$
then when he says "No love for no Beach" he is affirming that he isn't talking about the beach at all, because he just said he loves the seas and the shore...which would be a beach, but in the same verse says that he doesn't love the beach...
GOTTA LOVE LUPE...there is so much more but I would be glued to my computer if I didn't leave it right now.
Oh yeah I agree that with that first part of the opposites he isn't actually saying what we think he is.
Oh yeah I agree that with that first part of the opposites he isn't actually saying what we think he is.
"I love the Lord" I always thought he was saying "I love the law"
"I love the Lord" I always thought he was saying "I love the law"
"But sometimes it's like that I love me more" He likes laws and order, but not if it gets in the way of what he wants.
"But sometimes it's like that I love me more" He likes laws and order, but not if it gets in the way of what he wants.
"I love the peace and I love the war" Peace as in piece as in gun. This agrees with the previous line, going against the law for selfish reasons, using guns and war as...
"I love the peace and I love the war" Peace as in piece as in gun. This agrees with the previous line, going against the law for selfish reasons, using guns and war as he pleases.
"I love the seas and I love the shore" This connects back to both parts. Seas represent adventure and danger, meaning the war. Shores represent safety.
"No love for no beach, baby that's law" A beach is the seas and shore combined, which is the edge of danger and safety, and to him that's what the law acts as. Beach also sounds like bitch, so he could be saying that there's a woman who's stopping him from being "Cool" and this is the one whose back he turns on to go to the Streets.
I love the immense amounts of double meanings and how it makes perfect sense both ways. The amount of intellectual music contained in those few lines far outmatches almost every single song in existence.